Substrate Stencil node not producing blocks

Question

I forked the Substrate Stencil node to kickstart from Governance and Staking. I've followed the steps from both the repo and Substrate docs. I tried to run a staging node but it's idling with 4 validator peers.

Steps I've done;

• Build a custom spec file with created keys.
• Start the nodes
• Insert keys to each node
• Restart the nodes to see if it makes it any different

The commands I use can be found in this GitHub Gist.

I suspect that I'm doing something wrong with the keys but can't figure out what's that exactly.

Answer 1

Found out that using derive when creating keys for authoring and finalization doesn't go well together.

What I've been doing:

./target/release/substrate-stencil key inspect --password-interactive --scheme Sr25519 "<secret>//1//babe"

./target/release/substrate-stencil key inspect --password-interactive --scheme Ed25519 "<secret>//1//grandpa"

What's working:

./target/release/substrate-stencil key generate --scheme Sr25519 --password-interactive

./target/release/substrate-stencil key inspect --password-interactive --scheme Ed25519 <secret-from-above>