Confirm Election Status

Once the network is running you can check if you’re in the current validator set.

exocored --home $HOMEDIR q tendermint-validator-set | grep $(exocored --home $HOMEDIR tendermint show-address)
# prints your `exovalcons` address, corresponding to the consensus key. example below.
- address: exovalcons18z3p42xn8pjk338upvzp794h02wh7p4t7jj9jx

If you recently registered as a validator, it takes at most 1 hour (one epoch) for the validator set to update. You can use the following commands to check the amount of time remaining for the epoch to increase.

EPOCH_ID=$(exocored query dogfood params --node $EXOCORE_COS_GRPC_URL --output json | jq -r .params.epoch_identifier)
exocored query epochs epoch-infos --node $EXOCORE_COS_GRPC_URL --output json | jq --arg EPOCH_ID "$EPOCH_ID" '
  . as $root 
  | .epochs[]
  | select(.identifier == $EPOCH_ID)
  | .next_epoch_start_time = (
      (.current_epoch_start_time | fromdateiso8601) + (.duration | sub("s"; "") | tonumber)
    )
  | .time_to_go = (
      (.next_epoch_start_time - ($root.block_time | sub("\\.[0-9]+Z$"; "Z") | fromdateiso8601))
    | if . < 0 then 0 else . end
    )
  | {identifier, next_epoch_start_time: (.next_epoch_start_time | todate), time_to_go: (.time_to_go | tostring + " seconds")}
' # do include this line, which contains only a single apostrophe

It will report the remaining duration (in seconds) of the current epoch, as well as the start time (in UTC) of the next epoch.

{
  "identifier": "hour",
  "next_epoch_start_time": "2024-11-04T19:02:12Z",
  "time_to_go": "2924 seconds"
}