# Radix Archive Node Shutdown Delayed

**URL:** <https://radixtalk.com/t/radix-archive-node-shutdown-delayed/389>\
**Category:** Validators\
**Created:** [18 February 2022 14:08 UTC](https://radixtalk.com/t/radix-archive-node-shutdown-delayed/389 "2022-02-18T14:08:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Faraz](https://radixtalk.com/user_avatar/radixtalk.com/faraz/32/334_2.png) [@Faraz](https://radixtalk.com/u/Faraz)\
**Post date:** [18 February 2022 14:08 UTC](https://radixtalk.com/t/radix-archive-node-shutdown-delayed/389/1 "2022-02-18T14:08:33Z")

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Today (18th February) was the day originally planned for the Radix team’s archive nodes to be deprecated and moved over to the new Gateway service. However, in the interest of ensuring a means of unregistering a validator node (in the event a node falls out of sync), the Radix team have confirmed that the shutdown of their archive nodes will be delayed.

An update to the Gateway service to enable unregistering of a validator will be made prior to any shutdown of the archive nodes. In the meantime, if a node runner needs to unregister - this post by @Stuart still applies as long as the archive nodes are still available: [Unregistering a Validator](https://radixtalk.com/t/how-to-unregister-a-validator-node-using-the-keystore-file/64)

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**Author:** ![Stuart](https://radixtalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@Stuart](https://radixtalk.com/u/Stuart)\
**Post date:** [18 February 2022 14:12 UTC](https://radixtalk.com/t/radix-archive-node-shutdown-delayed/389/2 "2022-02-18T14:12:25Z")

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This is a sensible decision. I’ve seen the update to allow a node to be (un)registered on the gateway has been merged so should be available in next release.

> <https://github.com/radixdlt/olympia-gateway/pull/33>
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> I've been unable to test the full signing/submission locally (as I don't have ke…ys to any validator I can use to sign...). - unless I set up a localnet - but will get Theo to help with testing on RCNet / using his test harness!

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**Author:** ![Jazzer\_9F](https://radixtalk.com/user_avatar/radixtalk.com/jazzer_9f/32/24_2.png) [@Jazzer\_9F](https://radixtalk.com/u/Jazzer_9F)\
**Post date:** [24 February 2022 13:57 UTC](https://radixtalk.com/t/radix-archive-node-shutdown-delayed/389/3 "2022-02-24T13:57:38Z")

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Nodes are switched off, and the unregister transaction building has been added to the Gateway API.

Progress!

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**Author:** ![CaviarNine](https://radixtalk.com/user_avatar/radixtalk.com/caviarnine/32/1422_2.png) [@CaviarNine](https://radixtalk.com/u/CaviarNine)\
**Post date:** [25 February 2022 08:07 UTC](https://radixtalk.com/t/radix-archive-node-shutdown-delayed/389/4 "2022-02-25T08:07:56Z")

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Good news about the Gateway API endpoint.

For now, we are keeping [https://node.caviarnine.com/](https://node.caviarnine.com/) available for people with legacy code.

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**Author:** ![Stuart](https://radixtalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@Stuart](https://radixtalk.com/u/Stuart)\
**Post date:** [25 February 2022 09:51 UTC](https://radixtalk.com/t/radix-archive-node-shutdown-delayed/389/5 "2022-02-25T09:51:23Z")

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I’ve updated the unregister script at [https://github.com/radixpool/validator-tools](https://github.com/radixpool/validator-tools) to use the new Gateway API.

Thanks to @Faraz for providing the updated JSON request templates.