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// Section 14.8 · Operate

Self-Stop on Unstake

1 min14.8Operate

The daemon is designed not to spin uselessly. The coordinator returns 403 for a node that is no longer backed on-chain. The daemon reads the reason:

  • not_staked: the node was never staked, or its stake was withdrawn. The daemon prints the reason and exits cleanly.
  • in_cooldown: the node is in the 7-day unstake cooldown. The daemon exits cleanly; nothing is dispatched to a cooling node.
  • Repeated unexplained 403s (three in a row) stop the daemon with a hint to check the --node-id and that this machine's nodeKeyHash was the one registered.

On SIGINT (Ctrl-C) or SIGTERM (systemctl stop, launchd, kill) the daemon drains and exits cleanly. The node simply goes idle; the stake stays locked and there is no slashing.