5-4: Stake your node

To earn POKT rewards, you'll need to stake at least 15,000 POKT. But you should stake at least 15,050 POKT. This provides a little room in case you get slashed for some reason.

danger

It's important that you understand the risks associated with staking POKT and running a Pocket node. Dabble Lab and the authors of this guide care about your risks, but YOU are ultimately responsible for them.

If you're using the Pocket CLI to fund an account, keep in mind that the CLI uses uPOKT (the smallest unit of POKT) for its calculations. The formula for converting POKT to uPOKT is: uPOKT = POKT * 10^6. So, multiplying 15050 POKT by 10^6 (1 million) will result in 15050000000 uPOKT.

Also keep it mind that there is a cost for every transaction you send. At the moment, that cost is a flat fee of 0.01 POKT, or 10000 uPOKT.

1. List your accounts

   pocket accounts list

2. Confirm the validator account is set

   pocket accounts get-validator

3. Confirm the validator account has enough POKT

   pocket query balance YourValidatorAddress

   Note: This should be at least 15,051 POKT. You'll want 15,050 to stake and a bit more for network fees.

4. Stake your node

   pocket nodes stake YourValidatorAddress 15050000000 YourChainIds https://YourNodeDnsName:443 mainnet 10000
   tip

   The YourChainIds placeholder above should be a list of relay chain IDs that are defined in your ~/.pocket/config/chains.json file. In this guide we only setup 0001, but if you were relaying to multiple chains each id would be separated by a comma. For example, 0001,0022,0040.

After you send the stake command, you'll be prompted for your passphrase, then you should see something like this:

http://localhost:8082/v1/client/rawtx
{
    "logs": null,
    "txhash": "155D46196C69F75F85791C4190D384B8BAFFBBEFCC5D1311130C54A1C54435A7"
}

The actual time it takes to stake will very depending when the last block was processed. But generally, it should take less than 15 minutes.

Confirm your node is live

After you've staked your node, you can confirm it's live by running the following command:

pocket query node YourValidatorAddress

tip

If you see something like this:

http://localhost:8082/v1/query/node
the http status code was not okay: 400, and the status was: 400 Bad Request, with a response of {"code":400,"message":"validator not found for 07f5084ab5f5246d747fd1154d5d4387ee5a7111"}

It just means your node is not live yet. Just wait a few minutes and try again.