From 443eb3d30090274f376e7b7a0bea17ba19513263 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marko Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:55:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add note on tombstoning (#15545) Co-authored-by: Facundo Medica <14063057+facundomedica@users.noreply.github.com> --- x/staking/README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/x/staking/README.md b/x/staking/README.md index dffd4474d4..88d5d2efb9 100644 --- a/x/staking/README.md +++ b/x/staking/README.md @@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ Validators can have one of three statuses tombstoning, an unbonding of all their delegations begins. All delegations must then wait the UnbondingTime before their tokens are moved to their accounts from the `BondedPool`. +:::Note +Tombstoning is permanent, once tombstoned a validators consensus key can not be reused within the chain where the tombstoning happened. +::: + Validators objects should be primarily stored and accessed by the `OperatorAddr`, an SDK validator address for the operator of the validator. Two additional indices are maintained per validator object in order to fulfill