Minimum hardware requirements :
1) Auto_install script
Copy source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Side/sidet)
2) Manual installation
Preparing the server
Copy sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential bsdmainutils git make ncdu gcc git jq chrony liblz4-tool -y
GO 1.21.6
Copy ver="1.21.6"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
rm "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
go version
Build 13.11.24
Copy cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/sideprotocol/side.git
cd side
git checkout v0.9.5
make install
sided version --long | grep -e version -e commit
commit: dd2db4c7433828ef55fccc0f92e51efdb0313b9e
Initiation
Copy sided init STAVR_guide --chain-id=sidechain-testnet-4
sided config chain-id sidechain-testnet-4
Create/recover wallet
Copy sided keys add <walletname> --key-type="segwit"
OR
sided keys add <walletname> --key-type="segwit" --recover
Download Addrbook and Genesis
Copy wget -O $HOME/.side/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Side/addrbook.json"
wget -O $HOME/.side/config/genesis.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Side/genesis.json"
sha256sum $HOME/.side/config/genesis.json
349826a41d30264578103c1fe70e87b6d5f7c5a1a8427625b7b515da70f3e05b
Set up the minimum gas price and Peers/Seeds/Filter peers/MaxPeers
Copy sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.005uside\"/;" ~/.side/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.side/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.side/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.side/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.side/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.side/config/config.toml
Pruning (optional)
Copy pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.side/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.side/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.side/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.side/config/app.toml
Indexer (optional)
Copy indexer="null" &&
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.side/config/config.toml
Create a service file
Copy sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/sided.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=sided
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which sided) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
StateSync Side Testnet
Copy systemctl stop sided
SNAP_RPC=https://side.rpc.t.stavr.tech:443
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s $SNAP_RPC/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height); \
BLOCK_HEIGHT=$((LATEST_HEIGHT - 1000)); \
TRUST_HASH=$(curl -s "$SNAP_RPC/block?height=$BLOCK_HEIGHT" | jq -r .result.block_id.hash)
echo $LATEST_HEIGHT $BLOCK_HEIGHT $TRUST_HASH
sed -i.bak -E "s|^(enable[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1true| ; \
s|^(rpc_servers[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$SNAP_RPC,$SNAP_RPC\"| ; \
s|^(trust_height[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1$BLOCK_HEIGHT| ; \
s|^(trust_hash[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$TRUST_HASH\"| ; \
s|^(seeds[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"\"|" $HOME/.side/config/config.toml
sided tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.side
wget -O $HOME/.side/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Side/addrbook.json"
curl -o - -L https://side-t.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-side.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.side
sudo systemctl restart sided && journalctl -fu sided -o cat
SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours
You can check the size and time of snapshot creation with this command
curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Side/side-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep "last" && curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Side/side-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep content-length | awk '{printf "%.2f GB\n", $2/1024/1024/1024}'
Copy cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop sided
cp $HOME/.side/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.side/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.side/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Side/ | grep -oE 'side-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Side/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Side/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.side
curl -o - -L https://side-t.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-side.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.side
mv $HOME/.side/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.side/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.side/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Side/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart sided && journalctl -fu sided -o cat
Start
Copy sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable sided
sudo systemctl restart sided && sudo journalctl -fu sided -o cat
Create validator
Copy sided tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 1000000uside \
--pubkey $(sided tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id sidechain-testnet-4 \
--gas 350000 \
--identity="" \
--website="" \
--details="" -y
Monitoring
You can set up your node status alarm here - Monitoring
Security
You can create secure management of your wallet and your node by following this links.
TMKMS Wallet Security
Delete node
Copy sudo systemctl stop sided
sudo systemctl disable sided
rm /etc/systemd/system/sided.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf side
rm -rf .side
rm -rf $(which sided)
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