Useful commands

These commands are useful to sequencer operators. If you're trying to do something that is not listed here, ask in the appropriate discord channel.

Prerequisites

• You'll need a way to query the L1 contracts, this guide assumes you have foundry installed.
• Have the aztec tool installed
• Ethereum EL RPC endpoint

Basics

Get the Registry contract address

The Registry contract is your entrypoint into almost all other contracts for a particular deployment of the Aztec Network. Armed with this address, you can retrieve almost all other useful contracts.

Assume there are two "deployments" of Aztec i.e. an alpha-testnet and a ignition-testnet. Then each deployment will have a unique Registry contract that does not change with upgrades. If a governance upgrade on alpha-testnet deploys a new rollup contract, the Registry contract for the alpha-testnet deployment will not change.

Get the Rollup contract

Run

cast call <RegistryContractAddress> "getCanonicalRollup()" --rpc-url https://example.com

info

The rest of the guide will omit the --rpc-url flag for legibility.

Query the Validator Set

Retrieve a list of all validators

Run

cast call <RollupAddress> "getAttesters()" --rpc-url

What is the status of a particular validator?

Run

cast call <RollupAddress> "getInfo(address)" <ValidatorAddress>

This will return in order: 1) the validator's balance 2) their withdrawer address 3) their proposer address and 4) their current status.

Status	Meaning
0	The validator is not in the validator set
1	The validator is currently in the validator set.
2	The validator is not active in the set. This could mean that they initiated a withdrawal and are awaiting final exit
3	The validator has completed their exit delay and can be exited from the validator set

Governance Upgrades

Get the GovernanceProposer contract

First get the Governance contract from the Registry, and query it for the GovernanceProposer contract.

cast call <RegistryAddress> "getGovernance()"
cast call <GovernanceAddress> "governanceProposer()"

Check what the governance quorums are

Run

cast call <GovernanceProposerAddress> "M()" # The size of any signalling round in L2 blocks.
cast call <GovernanceProposerAddress> "N()" # The number of signals that must be received in any single signalling round.

Check how many signals a payload has received

You can check how many signals a payload has received in a specific round. To do so, you need the rollup address, the payload address and the round number. To find the round number at a specific point in time, you can compute it using an L2 slot number.

cast call <GovernanceProposerAddress> "computeRound(uint256)" <SlotNumber> # returns a round number (in hex)
cast call <GovernanceProposerAddress> "yeaCount(address,uint256,address)" <RollupAddress> <RoundNumber> <PayloadAddress> # round number should is an integer