Refund of deposits on deregistration (depending on protocol parameters and decay)

Loic_Etienne · 29 April 2021 15:37

Before delegating to a staking pool, a stake address needs first to be registered, with a deposit, of currently 2 ADA, according to the protocol parameter keyDeposit.

Does a reward account (corresponding to a registered stake key) store the amount originally deposited on chain ?
Can/will the protocol parameter keyDeposit ever be updated ?
Will some decay mechanism for the refund due to a deregistration be implemented ?
If one of 2 or 3 holds, how to compute the amount of such a refund (which information is required for building a well-balanced transaction including a deregistration certificate). Currently, a hardcoded value of 2 ADA seems to work, but this approach may not be sustainable.

laplasz · 30 April 2021 10:53

Hi!

I think once the stake certificate registered the stake address is fine even the stake keyDeposit changed. The stake certificate can be de-registered and it will automatically gives back the stake keyDeposit.

this is the command how to de-register:
cardano-cli stake-address deregistration-certificate

I think 2 ADA does not need to be provided when building the transaction…
That case the 2 ADA should arrive to the stake address (just like in case of pool de-registration) where it can be withdraw from
https://docs.cardano.org/projects/cardano-node/en/latest/stake-pool-operations/withdraw-rewards.html
but I will verify this by creating a de-registration soon…

Jun_Sun · 4 May 2021 23:39

I just tried it and it turned out we do have to include 2 ADA to the TX output amount. See logs below. First execution did not include 2 ADA and caused an error. The second one did and went through successfully.

jsun@ubuntu:~/hobby/cardano/temp$ ../account-mng/deregister-stake.sh
For which network - mainnet or testnet? (default : testnet)
===> running deregister_stake ...
keyDeposit: 2000000
utxo (balance) for the account is :
TxHash: 36cb41d6164e0d11785910f5704994a89be4cc0f3c58ab8c3df5fc12269d1377#0
ADA: 7820683
Total ADA balance: 7820683
Number of UTXOs: 1
Current Slot: 25802049
fee: 179317
Change Output: 7641366
Command failed: transaction submit  Error: Error while submitting tx: ShelleyTxValidationError ShelleyBasedEraMary (ApplyTxError [LedgerFailure (UtxowFailure (UtxoFailure (ValueNotConservedUTxO (Value 9820683 (fromList [])) (Value 7820683 (fromList [])))))])
jsun@ubuntu:~/hobby/cardano/temp$ ../account-mng/deregister-stake.sh
For which network - mainnet or testnet? (default : testnet)
===> running deregister_stake ...
keyDeposit: 2000000
utxo (balance) for the account is :
TxHash: 36cb41d6164e0d11785910f5704994a89be4cc0f3c58ab8c3df5fc12269d1377#0
ADA: 7820683
Total ADA balance: 7820683
Number of UTXOs: 1
Current Slot: 25802075
fee: 179317
Change Output: 9641366
Transaction successfully submitted.
Initial build is done!

shawnim · 27 July 2021 02:35

Thanks for figuring this out! Can you post the script or is it available somewhere?

Jun_Sun · 28 July 2021 01:15

My plan is to publish the scripts some day, but they are not in the best shape yet.

In any case, I attached the 2 relevant scripts, register-stake and deregister-stake for your reference.

set -e                  # exit on error
set -o pipefail         # exit on pipeline error
set -u                  # treat unset variable as error
#set -x

SCRIPT_FILE=$(readlink -f "$0")
SCRIPT_NAME=$(basename $SCRIPT_FILE)
SCRIPT_DIR="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"

# we always excute under node-level directory
CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH=${CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH:-""}
if [[ -z $CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH ]]; then
    echo "please set env var $CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH"
    echo "you can either run a cardano node locally, or set up a ssh socket forward"
    echo
    echo "For example"
    echo
    echo "ssh -nNT -L /tmp/tmp-cardano-socket:/home/ubuntu/cardano/producer/db/socket ubuntu@cardano.netspectrum.com"
    echo "export CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH=/tmp/tmp-cardano-socket"
    echo
    exit 1
fi

function myerror() {
    echo -e "ERROR : $1"
    echo
    echo -e "QUITING ...."
    exit 1
}

function calc_tx_in() {
    address=$1

    # calc input    
    local raw_balance=$(cardano-cli query utxo --address $address $NETWORK_MAGIC |tail -n +3 | sort -k3 -nr)

    echo "utxo (balance) for the account is :"
    tx_in=""
    total_balance=0
    txcnt=0
    while read -r utxo; do
        if [[ -z $utxo ]]; then break; fi
        in_addr=$(awk '{ print $1 }' <<< "${utxo}")
        idx=$(awk '{ print $2 }' <<< "${utxo}")
        utxo_balance=$(awk '{ print $3 }' <<< "${utxo}")
        total_balance=$((${total_balance}+${utxo_balance}))
        echo TxHash: ${in_addr}#${idx}
        echo ADA: ${utxo_balance}
        tx_in="${tx_in} --tx-in ${in_addr}#${idx}"
        txcnt=$((txcnt + 1))
    done <<< "$raw_balance"
    echo Total ADA balance: ${total_balance}
    echo Number of UTXOs: ${txcnt}
}

function deregister_stake() {
    echo "===> running deregister_stake ..."

    # gen stake cert
    cardano-cli stake-address deregistration-certificate \
        --stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
        --out-file stake-dereg.cert

    # calc deposite fee
    keyDeposit=$(cat $PARAMS_FILE | jq -r '.stakeAddressDeposit')
    echo keyDeposit: $keyDeposit

    # build tx.raw
    calc_tx_in ${PAYMENT_ADDR}
    if [[ $txcnt == 0 ]]; then
        myerror "Please fund the account first before registration"
    fi

    # get slot
    currentSlot=$(cardano-cli query tip $NETWORK_MAGIC | jq -r '.slot')
    echo Current Slot: $currentSlot

    # build tmp for fee estimate
    cardano-cli transaction build-raw \
        ${tx_in} \
        --tx-out ${PAYMENT_ADDR}+0 \
        --invalid-hereafter $(( ${currentSlot} + 10000)) \
        --fee 0 \
        --out-file /tmp/tx.tmp \
        --certificate stake-dereg.cert

    # estimate fee
    fee=$(cardano-cli transaction calculate-min-fee \
        --tx-body-file /tmp/tx.tmp \
        --tx-in-count ${txcnt} \
        --tx-out-count 1 \
        $NETWORK_MAGIC \
        --witness-count 2 \
        --byron-witness-count 0 \
        --protocol-params-file $PARAMS_FILE | awk '{ print $1 }')
    echo fee: $fee

    # calc change amount
    txOut=$((total_balance+keyDeposit-fee))
    echo Change Output: ${txOut}

    # build tx raw
    cardano-cli transaction build-raw \
        ${tx_in} \
        --tx-out ${PAYMENT_ADDR}+${txOut} \
        --invalid-hereafter $(( ${currentSlot} + 10000)) \
        --fee ${fee} \
        --certificate-file stake-dereg.cert \
        --out-file /tmp/tx.raw

    # sign
    cardano-cli transaction sign \
        --tx-body-file /tmp/tx.raw \
        --signing-key-file $PAYMENT_SKEY \
        --signing-key-file stake.skey \
        $NETWORK_MAGIC \
        --out-file /tmp/tx.signed

    # submit
    cardano-cli transaction submit \
        --tx-file /tmp/tx.signed \
        $NETWORK_MAGIC

    # clean up
    rm -f /tmp/tx.*
}

# =============   main  ================

if [[ $# == 2 && $1 == "--payer" ]]; then
    PAYMENT_ADDR=$(cat $2/payment.addr)
    PAYMENT_SKEY="$2/payment.skey"
elif [[ $# == 0 ]]; then
    PAYMENT_ADDR=$(cat payment.addr)
    PAYMENT_SKEY="payment.skey"
else
    usage
fi

read -p "For which network - mainnet or testnet? (default : testnet) "  NETWORK
if [[ -z $NETWORK ]]; then
    NETWORK="testnet"
elif [[ $NETWORK != "mainnet" && $NETWORK != "testnet" ]]; then
    myerror "Wrong network inputed : $NETWORK"
fi

if [[ $NETWORK == "mainnet" ]]; then
    NETWORK_MAGIC="--mainnet"
elif [[ $NETWORK == "testnet" ]]; then
    NETWORK_MAGIC="--testnet-magic 1097911063"
else
    echo "unknown network $NETWORK. quitting"
    exit 1
fi

PARAMS_FILE=$SCRIPT_DIR/${NETWORK}-params.json
if [[ ! -f $PARAMS_FILE ]]; then
    echo "generating params file $PARAMS_FILE ..."
    cardano-cli query protocol-parameters $NETWORK_MAGIC --out-file $PARAMS_FILE
fi

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kkarty · 12 October 2021 17:10

THANK YOU !

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