自他共栄: The Art of Celo Validator Staking — Community Style

Keyko’s how-to guide for staking on Kekyo’s Validator Group within the Celo Network.

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Preparation

1. Install the Celo CLI to run the following commands.
2. Set the account that is supposed to stake on the Keyko Validator Group.
3. That account has to contain Celo (cGLD) (in this example we assume 10,000 Celo (cGLD)).

export STAKING_ADDRESS=0x0Cb87f7e43de7584EEECBf27c2cD8DE2CB6B473A

Note: Replace the address in the command above with your address.

Staking Instructions

Command 1 — Locks Celo (cGLD) to be used in governance and validator elections.

celocli lockedgold:lock --from $STAKING_ADDRESS --value 10000000000000000000000

The example command above is to lock 10,000 Celo (cGLD).

Command 2 — Vote for a Validator Group in validator elections

celocli election:vote --from $STAKING_ADDRESS --for 0x2fd49E97262D505Fd76BB6E0e06eC10e1fd54589 --value 10000000000000000000000

The example command above is to vote for the Staked validator group with 10,000 Celo (cGLD).

Command 3 — To earn rewards as a voter, it is required to activate your pending votes at some point after the end of the epoch in which they were made. This command should be executed at least 24 hours after voting for the validator group. Rewards will not be earned if this command is not executed.

celocli election:activate --from $STAKING_ADDRESS

Alternatively, you can use the--wait flag to let the command wait for the epoch to end:

celocli election:activate --from $STAKING_ADDRESS --wait

Note: This can take up to 24 hours!

Vote for Us!

Keyko is looking for more votes on our Validator Group to run another Validator and stay elected, and we’d love to welcome you into our dōjō! Here’s a little bit of background to entice you through our doors:

• We assisted in implementing the Celo Blockchain as a launch partner https://keyko.io/#projects-top.
• We are looking for at least 1 million more votes to run another validator.
• We have one validator that’s already has accumulated uptime, so voters can start earning right now. Currently it has a score of: 95+%!
• The Keyko validator has 100% uptime in every epoch that it was elected in.
• Details about the Validator Group can be found here: https://celo.keyko.io.

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