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Back-up your secret data

Back-up your secret data

Back-up your validator mnemonics and secret keys.

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Important: The Axelar network is under active development. Use at your own risk with funds you're comfortable using. See Terms of use.

You must store backup copies of the following data in a safe place:

  1. validator account secret mnemonic
  2. Tendermint validator secret key
  3. broadcaster account secret mnemonic
  4. tofnd secret mnemonic

Items 1 and 2 were created when you completed Quick sync.

Items 3 and 4 were created when you completed Launch validator companion processes for the first time.

Validator account secret mnemonic

BACKUP and DELETE the validator account secret mnemonic:

~/.axelar/validator.txt

Tendermint validator secret key

BACKUP but do NOT DELETE the Tendermint consensus secret key (this is needed on node restarts):

~/.axelar/.core/config/priv_validator_key.json

Broadcaster account secret mnemonic

BACKUP and DELETE the broadcaster account secret mnemonic:

~/.axelar/broadcaster.txt

Tofnd secret mnemonic

BACKUP and DELETE the tofnd secret mnemonic:

~/.axelar/.tofnd/import