> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cosmos.network/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Validators > gRPC: `cosmos.staking.v1beta1.Query/Validators` ([reference](/sdk/latest/api-reference/grpc/staking#validators)) Validators queries all validators that match the given status. When called from another module, this query might consume a high amount of gas if the pagination field is incorrectly set. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /sdk/latest/api-reference/rest/openapi.yaml get /cosmos/staking/v1beta1/validators openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: Cosmos SDK REST API description: >- HTTP bindings for the gRPC query services of the standard Cosmos SDK modules, documenting Cosmos SDK v0.55. Generated from cosmos/cosmos-sdk at commit 2086680ff8b08fd269ee653e087ea577bab79534 on ref `release/v0.55.x`. A chain exposes only the modules its application registers, so it may serve a subset of these routes alongside routes of its own. version: v0.55 servers: - url: https://cosmos-rest.publicnode.com description: >- Community-run public endpoint serving Cosmos Hub. Not operated by the Cosmos SDK team, and running a different SDK version than these pages document. Endpoints for modules the chain does not include return 501. - url: http://localhost:1317 description: Your own node. Requires api.enable in app.toml. security: [] tags: - name: auth - name: authz - name: bank - name: base - name: consensus - name: distribution - name: epochs - name: evidence - name: feegrant - name: gov - name: mint - name: slashing - name: staking - name: tx - name: upgrade paths: /cosmos/staking/v1beta1/validators: get: tags: - staking summary: Validators description: >- gRPC: `cosmos.staking.v1beta1.Query/Validators` ([reference](/sdk/latest/api-reference/grpc/staking#validators)) Validators queries all validators that match the given status. When called from another module, this query might consume a high amount of gas if the pagination field is incorrectly set. operationId: staking_v1beta1_Validators parameters: - name: status description: status enables to query for validators matching a given status. in: query required: false schema: type: string - name: pagination.key description: |- key is a value returned in PageResponse.next_key to begin querying the next page most efficiently. Only one of offset or key should be set. in: query required: false schema: type: string format: byte - name: pagination.offset description: >- offset is a numeric offset that can be used when key is unavailable. It is less efficient than using key. Only one of offset or key should be set. in: query required: false schema: type: string format: uint64 - name: pagination.limit description: >- limit is the total number of results to be returned in the result page. If left empty it will default to a value to be set by each app. in: query required: false schema: type: string format: uint64 - name: pagination.countTotal description: >- count_total is set to true to indicate that the result set should include a count of the total number of items available for pagination in UIs. count_total is only respected when offset is used. It is ignored when key is set. in: query required: false schema: type: boolean - name: pagination.reverse description: >- reverse is set to true if results are to be returned in the descending order. in: query required: false schema: type: boolean responses: '200': description: A successful response. content: '*/*': schema: type: object properties: validators: type: array items: type: object properties: operator_address: type: string description: >- operator_address defines the address of the validator's operator; bech encoded in JSON. consensus_pubkey: description: >- consensus_pubkey is the consensus public key of the validator, as a Protobuf Any. type: object properties: '@type': type: string description: >- A URL/resource name that uniquely identifies the type of the serialized protocol buffer message. This string must contain at least one "/" character. The last segment of the URL's path must represent the fully qualified name of the type (as in `path/google.protobuf.Duration`). The name should be in a canonical form (e.g., leading "." is not accepted). In practice, teams usually precompile into the binary all types that they expect it to use in the context of Any. However, for URLs which use the scheme `http`, `https`, or no scheme, one can optionally set up a type server that maps type URLs to message definitions as follows: * If no scheme is provided, `https` is assumed. * An HTTP GET on the URL must yield a [google.protobuf.Type][] value in binary format, or produce an error. * Applications are allowed to cache lookup results based on the URL, or have them precompiled into a binary to avoid any lookup. Therefore, binary compatibility needs to be preserved on changes to types. (Use versioned type names to manage breaking changes.) Note: this functionality is not currently available in the official protobuf release, and it is not used for type URLs beginning with type.googleapis.com. As of May 2023, there are no widely used type server implementations and no plans to implement one. Schemes other than `http`, `https` (or the empty scheme) might be used with implementation specific semantics. additionalProperties: {} nullable: true jailed: type: boolean description: >- jailed defined whether the validator has been jailed from bonded status or not. status: description: >- status is the validator status (bonded/unbonding/unbonded). type: string enum: - BOND_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED - BOND_STATUS_UNBONDED - BOND_STATUS_UNBONDING - BOND_STATUS_BONDED default: BOND_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED nullable: true tokens: type: string description: >- tokens define the delegated tokens (incl. self-delegation). delegator_shares: type: string description: >- delegator_shares defines total shares issued to a validator's delegators. description: description: >- description defines the description terms for the validator. type: object properties: moniker: type: string description: >- moniker defines a human-readable name for the validator. identity: type: string description: >- identity defines an optional identity signature (ex. UPort or Keybase). website: type: string description: website defines an optional website link. security_contact: type: string description: >- security_contact defines an optional email for security contact. details: type: string description: details define other optional details. nullable: true additionalProperties: false unbonding_height: type: string format: int64 description: >- unbonding_height defines, if unbonding, the height at which this validator has begun unbonding. unbonding_time: type: string format: date-time description: >- unbonding_time defines, if unbonding, the min time for the validator to complete unbonding. nullable: true commission: description: commission defines the commission parameters. type: object properties: commission_rates: description: >- commission_rates defines the initial commission rates to be used for creating a validator. type: object properties: rate: type: string description: >- rate is the commission rate charged to delegators, as a fraction. max_rate: type: string description: >- max_rate defines the maximum commission rate which validator can ever charge, as a fraction. max_change_rate: type: string description: >- max_change_rate defines the maximum daily increase of the validator commission, as a fraction. nullable: true additionalProperties: false update_time: type: string format: date-time description: >- update_time is the last time the commission rate was changed. nullable: true nullable: true additionalProperties: false min_self_delegation: type: string description: >- min_self_delegation is the validator's self declared minimum self delegation. unbonding_on_hold_ref_count: type: string format: int64 title: >- strictly positive if this validator's unbonding has been stopped by external modules unbonding_ids: type: array items: type: string format: uint64 title: >- list of unbonding ids, each uniquely identifying an unbonding of this validator description: >- Validator defines a validator, together with the total amount of the Validator's bond shares and their exchange rate to coins. Slashing results in a decrease in the exchange rate, allowing correct calculation of future undelegations without iterating over delegators. When coins are delegated to this validator, the validator is credited with a delegation whose number of bond shares is based on the amount of coins delegated divided by the current exchange rate. Voting power can be calculated as total bonded shares multiplied by exchange rate. description: validators contains all the queried validators. nullable: true pagination: description: pagination defines the pagination in the response. type: object properties: next_key: type: string format: byte description: >- next_key is the key to be passed to PageRequest.key to query the next page most efficiently. It will be empty if there are no more results. nullable: true total: type: string format: uint64 title: >- total is total number of results available if PageRequest.count_total was set, its value is undefined otherwise nullable: true additionalProperties: false title: >- QueryValidatorsResponse is response type for the Query/Validators RPC method additionalProperties: false default: description: An unexpected error response. content: '*/*': schema: type: object properties: code: type: integer format: int32 message: type: string details: type: array items: type: object properties: '@type': type: string description: >- A URL/resource name that uniquely identifies the type of the serialized protocol buffer message. This string must contain at least one "/" character. The last segment of the URL's path must represent the fully qualified name of the type (as in `path/google.protobuf.Duration`). The name should be in a canonical form (e.g., leading "." is not accepted). In practice, teams usually precompile into the binary all types that they expect it to use in the context of Any. However, for URLs which use the scheme `http`, `https`, or no scheme, one can optionally set up a type server that maps type URLs to message definitions as follows: * If no scheme is provided, `https` is assumed. * An HTTP GET on the URL must yield a [google.protobuf.Type][] value in binary format, or produce an error. * Applications are allowed to cache lookup results based on the URL, or have them precompiled into a binary to avoid any lookup. Therefore, binary compatibility needs to be preserved on changes to types. (Use versioned type names to manage breaking changes.) Note: this functionality is not currently available in the official protobuf release, and it is not used for type URLs beginning with type.googleapis.com. As of May 2023, there are no widely used type server implementations and no plans to implement one. Schemes other than `http`, `https` (or the empty scheme) might be used with implementation specific semantics. additionalProperties: {} description: >- `Any` contains an arbitrary serialized protocol buffer message along with a URL that describes the type of the serialized message. Protobuf library provides support to pack/unpack Any values in the form of utility functions or additional generated methods of the Any type. Example 1: Pack and unpack a message in C++. Foo foo = ...; Any any; any.PackFrom(foo); ... if (any.UnpackTo(&foo)) { ... } Example 2: Pack and unpack a message in Java. Foo foo = ...; Any any = Any.pack(foo); ... if (any.is(Foo.class)) { foo = any.unpack(Foo.class); } // or ... if (any.isSameTypeAs(Foo.getDefaultInstance())) { foo = any.unpack(Foo.getDefaultInstance()); } Example 3: Pack and unpack a message in Python. foo = Foo(...) any = Any() any.Pack(foo) ... if any.Is(Foo.DESCRIPTOR): any.Unpack(foo) ... Example 4: Pack and unpack a message in Go foo := &pb.Foo{...} any, err := anypb.New(foo) if err != nil { ... } ... foo := &pb.Foo{} if err := any.UnmarshalTo(foo); err != nil { ... } The pack methods provided by protobuf library will by default use 'type.googleapis.com/full.type.name' as the type URL and the unpack methods only use the fully qualified type name after the last '/' in the type URL, for example "foo.bar.com/x/y.z" will yield type name "y.z". JSON ==== The JSON representation of an `Any` value uses the regular representation of the deserialized, embedded message, with an additional field `@type` which contains the type URL. Example: package google.profile; message Person { string first_name = 1; string last_name = 2; } { "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.profile.Person", "firstName": , "lastName": } If the embedded message type is well-known and has a custom JSON representation, that representation will be embedded adding a field `value` which holds the custom JSON in addition to the `@type` field. Example (for message [google.protobuf.Duration][]): { "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.Duration", "value": "1.212s" } ````