generated: '2026-07-21'
method: searched
source: https://docs.tendermint.com/master/tendermint-core/using-tendermint.html
binary: tendermint
distributed_in: packages/tendermint-packages.yml
install_methods:
  - method: go-install
    command: go install github.com/tendermint/tendermint/cmd/tendermint@latest
  - method: source
    command: make install (from the tendermint/tendermint repository)
  - method: docker
    command: docker run tendermint/tendermint
notes: >-
  The tendermint binary is the node operator CLI (not an API-consumer CLI). It
  initializes, runs, and maintains a full node whose RPC surface is the API
  documented in openapi/. Commands below are the primary command surface.
commands:
  - name: init
    description: Initialize a node's config, genesis, and validator/node keys.
  - name: start
    description: Run the full node (consensus + RPC + P2P).
  - name: node
    description: Alias for start; run the node.
  - name: version
    description: Print the Tendermint version.
  - name: show_node_id
    description: Show this node's P2P node ID.
  - name: show_validator
    description: Show this node's validator public key.
  - name: gen_validator
    description: Generate a new validator keypair.
  - name: gen_node_key
    description: Generate a new node key.
  - name: testnet
    description: Initialize files for a multi-node testnet.
  - name: unsafe_reset_all
    description: Reset blockchain state, address book, and private validator state (destructive).
  - name: reset_priv_validator
    description: Reset the private validator's signing state.
  - name: inspect
    description: Run an inspect server over the node's stores for post-mortem debugging.
  - name: rollback
    description: Roll the state back one height to recover from an app hash mismatch.