Nimiq
consensus

Send deactivate validator transaction

Sends a `deactivate_validator` transaction to the network. You need to provide the address of a basic account (the sender wallet) to pay the transaction fee.

sendDeactivateValidatorTransactionrpc method

Parameters

senderWalletstringrequired
validatorAddressstringrequired
signingSecretKeystringrequired
feenumberrequired
validityStartHeightstring | numberrequired

Response fields

Blake2bHashstring

Interactive playground

Try the method against a public RPC endpoint.

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