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Warden Testnet guide

  • 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 21.05.25

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget -O wardend https://github.com/warden-protocol/wardenprotocol/releases/download/v0.6.3/wardend-0.6.3-linux-amd64
chmod +x wardend
mv wardend $HOME/go/bin/wardend

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

  • version: 0.6.3

  • commit: 346fa4ed1c04aa43e4ba52fc502c0e7c842da315

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

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 $HOME/.warden
cd $HOME
nano $HOME/.warden/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/.warden/validator.json --from WalletName  --chain-id chiado_10010-1 --fees 250000000000000award -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

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)

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