Initialize a node

A moniker is a human-readable name that represents the validator node. It's a way to identify your validator to other participants in the network, much like a username or a handle. It's intended to be easier to remember and recognize than the validator's public key or operator address, which are long and difficult to distinguish at a glance. The moniker shows the activity of your node on the block explorer.

You can set up the moniker of your node by launching the following command:

testnet

terpd init <YOUR_NODE_MONIKER> --chain-id 90u-4

mainnet

terpd init <YOUR_NODE_MONIKER> --chain-id morocco-1

Next Steps

Your node is now initialized in it's default configuration! From here, you can decide how to further configure your node, whether that is to:

• set up your nodes keys
• configure a node to be various endpoints, such as:
  • sentry node
  • archive node
  • seed-node
  • full-node

you can now set up the node keys