💼 6. Create Wallet (Keypair)

🧰 Step 1: Create Your Wallet (Key Pair)

This will generate a new wallet address to become a validator.

qied keys add validator --home "$HOME/.qieMainnetNode"

This command ask for wallet password , to unlock the wallet. Output -

 address: qied19y2ul696lc6lz640pldete7h7jzdc0xj32wt6j
  name: validator
  pubkey: '{"@type":"/ethermint.crypto.v1.ethsecp256k1.PubKey","key":"A6ZBh5i6s/ToIdY8PhV9XRO5EKYeK1MPYolKpEJreEB3"}'
  type: local

📌 What this does: It creates a wallet inside the folder $HOME./qieMainnetNode . You’ll see:

• An address like qie1xyz... (your validator wallet)

• A public key (used for staking)