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# Change Reward Address

For Validators using **Credit Staking**, both **staking rewards** and **commissions** are distributed to the **Reward Address**.\
For Validators using **XBTC Staking**, only **commissions** are distributed to the **Reward Address**.

### 1. Navigate to the "Change Reward Address" menu

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
```

Then perform the "Change Reward Address" action by choose : 

BTC Validator -> Change Reward Address

### 2. Perform the "Change Reward Address" action

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