Publishing Validator Info
You can publish your validator information to the chain to be publicly visible to other users.
Run solana validator-info
Run the solana CLI to populate a validator info account:
solana validator-info publish --keypair ~/validator-keypair.json <VALIDATOR_INFO_ARGS> <VALIDATOR_NAME>
For details about optional fields for VALIDATOR_INFO_ARGS:
solana validator-info publish --help
Example Commands
Example publish command:
solana validator-info publish "Elvis Validator" -n elvis -w "https://elvis-validates.com"
Example query command:
solana 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:
Join https://keybase.io/ and complete the profile for your validator
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
solana
subdirectory in your public folder:/keybase/public/<KEYBASE_USERNAME>/solana
To check your pubkey, ensure you can successfully browse to
https://keybase.pub/<KEYBASE_USERNAME>/solana/validator-<PUBKEY>
Add or update your
solana validator-info
with your Keybase username. TheCLI will verify the
validator-<PUBKEY>
file