💾Node Installation

Side Testnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Auto_install script

source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Side/sidet)

2) Manual installation

Preparing the server

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

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

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

• version: 0.9.5

• commit: dd2db4c7433828ef55fccc0f92e51efdb0313b9e

Initiation

sided init STAVR_guide --chain-id=sidechain-testnet-4
sided config chain-id sidechain-testnet-4

Create/recover wallet

sided keys add <walletname> --key-type="segwit"
           OR
sided keys add <walletname> --key-type="segwit" --recover

Download Addrbook and Genesis

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

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Set up the minimum gas price and Peers/Seeds/Filter peers/MaxPeers

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)

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)

indexer="null" &&
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.side/config/config.toml

Create a service file

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

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}'

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

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable sided
sudo systemctl restart sided && sudo journalctl -fu sided -o cat

Create validator

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

🧩Services and Tools🧩

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

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)