💾Node Installation

Warden 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/Warden/wardent)

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 08.11.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget https://github.com/warden-protocol/wardenprotocol/releases/download/v0.5.4/wardend_Linux_x86_64.zip
unzip wardend_Linux_x86_64.zip
rm -rf wardend_Linux_x86_64.zip
chmod +x wardend
mv wardend $HOME/go/bin/wardend

wardend version --long | grep -e version -e commit

• version: 0.5.4

• commit: 9b78f9acf51bf7e511a1dc3920e1ff01a73e61fb

Initiation

wardend init STAVR_guide

Create/recover wallet

wardend keys add <walletname>
           OR
wardend keys add <walletname> --recover

Download Addrbook and Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.warden/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Warden/addrbook.json"
wget -O $HOME/.warden/config/genesis.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Warden/genesis.json"

sha256sum $HOME/.warden/config/genesis.json

• 8d6bff68b3c709f4d29c1ddae0d4b8394498911efcfdae16350c400c0e54e686

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"25000000award\"/;" ~/.warden/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.warden/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.warden/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\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Create a service file

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/wardend.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=wardend
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which wardend) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Warden Testnet

systemctl stop wardend
SNAP_RPC=https://warden.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/.warden/config/config.toml
wardend tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.warden
wget -O $HOME/.warden/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Warden/addrbook.json"
curl -o - -L https://warden.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-warden.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.warden
sudo systemctl restart wardend && journalctl -fu wardend -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/Warden/ward-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep "last" && curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Warden/ward-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep content-length | awk '{printf "%.2f GB\n", $2/1024/1024/1024}'

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop wardend
cp $HOME/.warden/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.warden/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.warden/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Warden/ | grep -oE 'ward-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Warden/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Warden/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.warden
curl -o - -L https://warden.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-warden.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.warden
mv $HOME/.warden/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.warden/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.warden/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Warden/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart wardend && journalctl -fu wardend -o cat

Start

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

Create validator

#pubkey
wardend tendermint show-validator --home /root/.warden
cd $HOME
nano validator.json
{
  "pubkey": {"#pubkey"},
  "amount": "1000000000000000000award",
  "moniker": "STAVR_guide",
  "identity": "",
  "website": "",
  "security": "",
  "details": "",
  "commission-rate": "0.05",
  "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
  "commission-max-change-rate": "0.2",
  "min-self-delegation": "1"
}
wardend --home $HOME/.warden tx staking create-validator $HOME/validator.json --from WalletName  --chain-id chiado_10010-1 --fees 250000000000000award -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 wardend
sudo systemctl disable wardend
rm /etc/systemd/system/wardend.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf wardenprotocol
rm -rf .warden
rm -rf $(which wardend)