Publishing Validator Info

You can publish your validator information to the chain to be publicly visible to other users.

Run PUT validator-info

Run the PUT CLI to populate a validator info account:

put validator-info publish --keypair ~/validator-keypair.json <VALIDATOR_INFO_ARGS> <VALIDATOR_NAME>

For details about optional fields for VALIDATOR_INFO_ARGS: PUT validator-info publish --help

Example Commands

Example publish command:

put validator-info publish "Elvis Validator" -n elvis -w "https://elvis-validates.com"

Example query command:

put validator-info get

which outputs

Validator info from 8WdJvDz6obhADdxpGCiJKZsDYwTLNEDFizayqziDc9ah
  Validator pubkey: 6dMH3u76qZ7XG4bVboVRnBHR2FfrxEqTTTyj4xmyDMWo
  Info: {"keybaseUsername":"elvis","name":"Elvis Validator","website":"https://elvis-validates.com"}

Keybase

Including a Keybase username allows client applications (like the Solana Network Explorer) to automatically pull in your validator public profile, including cryptographic proofs, brand identity, etc. To connect your validator pubkey with Keybase:

1. Join https://keybase.io/ and complete the profile for your validator

2. Add your validator identity pubkey to Keybase:

   • Create an empty file on your local computer called validator-<PUBKEY>

   • In Keybase, navigate to the Files section, and upload your pubkey file to

     a PUT subdirectory in your public folder: /keybase/public/<KEYBASE_USERNAME>/put

   • To check your pubkey, ensure you can successfully browse to

     https://keybase.pub/<KEYBASE_USERNAME>/put/validator-<PUBKEY>

3. Add or update your PUTvalidator-info with your Keybase username. The

   CLI will verify the validator-<PUBKEY> file