# Installation

## H**ardware Requirements**

<table><thead><tr><th>Node Type</th><th width="155">CPU</th><th width="160">RAM</th><th>Storage</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Testnet</td><td>4 Cores</td><td>8 GB</td><td>150 GB SSD</td></tr></tbody></table>

## 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
```

***

## 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
```

***

## Build

```
cd $HOME
wget -O wardend https://github.com/warden-protocol/wardenprotocol/releases/download/v0.6.2/wardend-0.6.2-linux-amd64
chmod +x wardend
mv wardend $HOME/go/bin
```

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

> **Result**
>
> * **version:** 0.6.2
> * **git commit:**&#x20;

***

## Initiation

{% hint style="info" %}
Change \<moniker> to your value, moniker is the name of your validator.
{% endhint %}

```
wardend init <moniker>
```

***

## Create / recover wallet

{% hint style="info" %}
Change \<walletname> to the name of your wallet
{% endhint %}

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

***

## 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

***

## Download addrbook

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

***

## 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
```

***

## Create validator

{% hint style="info" %}
Test tokens must be requested to create the validator
{% endhint %}

```
#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
```

***

## 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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