🗻Installation

Warden Testnet guide

Hardware Requirements

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4 Cores	8 GB	150 GB SSD

Server preparation

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

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GO 1.22.2

ver="1.22.2"
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

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Build

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

Result

• version: 0.5.4

• git commit: 9b78f9acf51bf7e511a1dc3920e1ff01a73e61fb

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Initiation

Change <moniker> to your value, moniker is the name of your validator.

wardend init <moniker>

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Create / recover wallet

Change <walletname> to the name of your wallet

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

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Download genesis

wget -O $HOME/.warden/config/genesis.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shoni-O/files/refs/heads/main/testnet-files/warden/genesis.json

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

Result

• 8d6bff68b3c709f4d29c1ddae0d4b8394498911efcfdae16350c400c0e54e686

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Download addrbook

wget -O $HOME/.warden/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shoni-O/files/refs/heads/main/testnet-files/warden/addrbook.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 = \"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

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

Start

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

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Create validator

Test tokens must be requested to create the 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

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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)