Bridge BTC for gas fee

Executing Synchronizer and Validator actions requires paying gas fees in exSat. These gas fees are deducted from the Synchronizer/Validator account. When the balance is low, you will need to recharge with more BTC as gas fee.

Before the "BTC & XSAT Staking" phase

Please recharge gas fee for your Synchronizer or Validator account at this page.

After the "BTC & XSAT Staking" phase

Check BTC balance for gas fee

You can check the BTC balance for gas fees on the Synchronizer/Validator account details page on the client, or at the consensus portal.

If you're running from source code, please execute "yarn start-commander" to run the client.

yarn start-commander

If you're running with Docker, please use the following commands to run it in interactive mode (assume the container name is commander)

docker rm commander
docker run -it --name commander -v $HOME/.exsat/:/app/.exsat -e CLIENT_TYPE=commander exsatnetwork/exsat-client:latest

Simply select your role as Synchronizer or Validator to view the details of your account, such as:

Bridge BTC as gas fee

Please follow these steps to bridge BTC for gas fees for your Synchronizer/Validator account:

1. Bridge BTC to the EVM layer.

2. Refill your Synchronizer or Validator account.