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Withdraw rewards

Querying the stake address balance​

First, check if you have some rewards to withdraw:

cardano-cli conway query stake-address-info --address $(< stake.addr)
[
    {
        "address": "stake_test1ur453z5nxrgvvu9wfyuxut8ss0mrvca4n8ly44tcu8camlqaz98mh",
        "delegationDeposit": 2000000,
        "rewardAccountBalance": 10534638802,
        "stakeDelegation": "pool17xgtj7ayvsaju4clums0mfusla4pmtfm6t4fj6guqqlsvne2mwm",
        "voteDelegation": "scriptHash-59aa3f091b3bcef254abfb89aea64973a61b78fdb2ac44839c7ccba8"
    }
]

Nice! There are some rewards, let's store the rewardAccountBalance in a variable for future use:

rewards="$(cardano-cli conway query stake-address-info --address $(< stake1.addr) | jq .[].rewardAccountBalance)"

Building the transaction​

To withdraw rewards from the rewards account, you must withdraw its entire balance; partial withdrawals are not allowed. Use the --withdrawal flag followed by the stake address and its balance using the syntax: stakeAddress+lovelace.

By default, the build command considers the transaction to only require one witness. However, this type of transaction needs to be signed by payment.skey to pay for the transaction fees, and also by stake.skey to prove that we control that stake address. Therefore, we inform the build command that the transaction will carry two signatures using the --witness-override 2 flag. This has a slight impact on the fee:

cardano-cli conway transaction build \
  --tx-in $(cardano-cli query utxo --address $(< payment.addr) --output-json | jq -r 'keys[0]') \
  --withdrawal stake_test1ur453z5nxrgvvu9wfyuxut8ss0mrvca4n8ly44tcu8camlqaz98mh+10534638802 \
  --change-address $(< payment1.addr) \
  --witness-override 2 \
  --out-file tx.raw

> Estimated transaction fee: Coin 180593

or using < and the $rewards variable from above:

cardano-cli conway transaction build \
  --tx-in $(cardano-cli query utxo --address $(< payment.addr) --output-json | jq -r 'keys[0]') \
  --withdrawal "$(< stake.addr)+$rewards" \
  --change-address $(< payment.addr) \
  --witness-override 2 \
  --out-file tx.raw

> Estimated transaction fee: Coin 180593

Signing the transaction​

As before, sign the transaction with the payment.skey:

cardano-cli conway transaction sign \
--tx-body-file tx.raw \
--signing-key-file payment.skey \
--signing-key-file stake.skey \
--out-file tx.signed

If you inspect the transaction, you'll notice that the 'withdrawals' field contains reward withdrawal details:

cardano-cli debug transaction view --tx-file tx.signed
{
    "auxiliary scripts": null,
    "certificates": null,
    "collateral inputs": [],
    "era": "Babbage",
    "fee": "180593 Lovelace",
    "inputs": [
        "5b8e81604aa60f82337986c0db4e0078282309ca054aa2690315451ec47ce1eb#0"
    ],
    "metadata": null,
    "mint": null,
    "outputs": [
        {
            "address": "addr_test1qrpw2fzut0s7mexgl05lmjdajr00lvlvlufg3qamc0d3mmhtfz9fxvxscec2ujfcdck0pqlkxe3mtx07ft2h3c03mh7q72p248",
            "address era": "Shelley",
            "amount": {
                "lovelace": 680164451802
            },
            "network": "Testnet",
            "payment credential key hash": "c2e5245c5be1ede4c8fbe9fdc9bd90deffb3ecff128883bbc3db1dee",
            "reference script": null,
            "stake reference": {
                "stake credential key hash": "eb488a9330d0c670ae49386e2cf083f63663b599fe4ad578e1f1ddfc"
            }
        }
    ],
    "redeemers": {},
    "reference inputs": [],
    "required signers (payment key hashes needed for scripts)": null,
    "return collateral": null,
    "total collateral": null,
    "update proposal": null,
    "validity range": {
        "lower bound": null,
        "upper bound": null
    },
    "withdrawals": [
        {
            "address": "stake_test1ur453z5nxrgvvu9wfyuxut8ss0mrvca4n8ly44tcu8camlqaz98mh",
            "amount": "10534638802 Lovelace",
            "network": "Testnet",
            "stake credential key hash": "eb488a9330d0c670ae49386e2cf083f63663b599fe4ad578e1f1ddfc"
        }
    ],
    "witnesses": [
        {
            "key": "VKey (VerKeyEd25519DSIGN \"842402e9a35b8818d35f556ba59df2929e3bee72c8e9bfdaa1894faed0a3b2d5\")",
            "signature": "SignedDSIGN (SigEd25519DSIGN \"31c84cc7e0b770f76acb3682c7d2e5b13c00405a0fd1fbaf3ff545be42458fb3e89c3da20162ea262a73d35f04e18257c175d8e0849d51922b8185c11920800b\")"
        },
        {
            "key": "VKey (VerKeyEd25519DSIGN \"8d2128537a643b7327fb07ef01fd8cd2f4911e0b3d096a4575d4cd4d73471896\")",
            "signature": "SignedDSIGN (SigEd25519DSIGN \"06fe930ce8d2f63fd62ab1354b2a85283fe4e6fdfc29ef605644c3f92505cd25165c2e40d4b0139240c06c86e06e835eee0d57a6783142ef5138cacad27d4d08\")"
        }
    ]
}

Submitting the transaction​

cardano-cli conway transaction submit \
  --tx-file tx.signed 

Transaction successfully submitted.

If you query the stake address details again, you'll notice that it has been emptied, and the funds were sent to the payment address.

cardano-cli conway query stake-address-info --address $(< stake1.addr)
[
    {
        "address": "stake_test1ur453z5nxrgvvu9wfyuxut8ss0mrvca4n8ly44tcu8camlqaz98mh",
        "delegationDeposit": 2000000,
        "rewardAccountBalance": 0,
        "stakeDelegation": "pool17xgtj7ayvsaju4clums0mfusla4pmtfm6t4fj6guqqlsvne2mwm",
        "voteDelegation": "scriptHash-59aa3f091b3bcef254abfb89aea64973a61b78fdb2ac44839c7ccba8"
    }
]