Nimiq
consensus

Create delete validator transaction

Returns a serialized `delete_validator` transaction. The transaction fee will be paid from the validator deposit that is being returned. Note in order for this transaction to be accepted fee + value should be equal to the validator deposit, which is not a fixed value: Failed delete validator transactions can diminish the validator deposit

createDeleteValidatorTransactionrpc method

Parameters

validatorWalletstringrequired
recipientstringrequired
feenumberrequired
valuenumberrequired
validityStartHeightstring | numberrequired

Response fields

Stringstring

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Try the method against a public RPC endpoint.

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