Genesis: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Distributed-Validators-Synctems/sputnik-school-testnet/master/genesis.json
Block explorer: https://sputnik-testnet-explorer.nodejumper.io/sputnik-school-testnet/staking
Peers: 745870cb265d8c3785da62317d46ecfaf7afa20a@95.217.164.96:26656,db0b3f18280de5ef4cb294912df6a3bf2c1a3f49@95.214.53.164:26656,7413a980948bf2208876d8bb40bb76ea957b1d97@178.215.71.199:26656,d236c62edc593476ad79bb13b028ab80e1c15d3a@128.199.142.104:26656,af6a8ce05b07dadf452fde8c645814c579d06142@88.218.60.250:26656,23cecdac3b81632feb8e39d9963080e1412b075f@84.54.44.147:26656,7413a980948bf2208876d8bb40bb76ea957b1d97@178.215.71.199:26656
Chain Id: sputnik-practice-1
Here are the minimal hardware configs required for running a validator/sentry node
- 4GB RAM
- 2vCPUs
- 80GB Disk space
- Ubuntu 22.04+
- Go v1.21
Sputnik app testnet binary repo https://github.com/Distributed-Validators-Synctems/sputnik-app-chain-practice
commit: d3ed2906478c1558e4be1a2e0f98305f7be46832
cosmos_sdk_version: v0.47.13-ics-lsm
go: go version go1.21.9 linux/amd64
name: sputnik
server_name: sputnik
version: main-d3ed2906478c1558e4be1a2e0f98305f7be46832
cd ~
sputnikd init "<moniker-name>" --chain-id sputnik-practice-1
example:
sputnikd init course-participant-1 --chain-id dvs-course-testnet
It's very important that after you run this command that you save the seed phrase that is generated. If you do not save you phrase, you will not be able to recover this account.
sputnikd keys add <your validator key name>
or restore existing wallet with mnemonic seed phrase. You will be prompted to enter mnemonic seed.
sputnikd keys add <key-name> --recover
or add keys using ledger
sputnikd keys add <key-name> --ledger
Check your key:
sputnikd keys show <key-name> -a
This command will help you to create account in your local genesis file. It will add funds to your address. Otherwise sputnikd getntx
command will fail because of lack of funds.
sputnikd add-genesis-account <key-name> 1000000000usputnik
Create the gentx file. Note, your gentx will be rejected if you use any amount greater than 10000000usputnik.
sputnikd gentx <key-name> 10000000usputnik \
--chain-id=sputnik-practice-1 \
--moniker="<moniker-name>" \
--website=<your-node-website> \
--details=<your-node-details> \
--commission-rate="0.10" \
--commission-max-rate="0.20" \
--commission-max-change-rate="0.01"
After gentx will be ready you can find it in the ~/.sputnik/config/gentx
directory. After that you will be required to upload it into gentxs
directory of this repository. Please name it using following template gentx-<validator name>.json
.
In order to upload this file you will need to create fork of this repository. Please click on “Fork” button in the top right corner of this page, and name it somehow or leave repository name unchanged.
After that you can upload gentx
file into appropriate directory of your repository. Next, you will need to create a PR (Pull request) to add changes from your cloned repository into main repository.
Please go into root directory of your repository and click on “Contribute” button.
You will see this popup window.
Please “Open pull request”, check data, put some description into text box field and click on “Create pull request” inside it. Congratulations you have created your first pull request!
sputnikd tx staking create-validator \
--amount=10000000usputnik \
--pubkey=$(sputnikd tendermint show-validator) \
--chain-id=sputnik-practice-1 \
--moniker="<moniker-name>" \
--website="<your-node-website>"\
--commission-rate="0.10" \
--commission-max-rate="0.20" \
--commission-max-change-rate="0.01" \
--gas="auto" \
--gas-adjustment=1.3 \
--gas-prices="0.1usputnik" \
--from=<key_name>
Install curl
sudo apt install curl -y
To download genesis.json
file
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Distributed-Validators-Synctems/sputnik-school-testnet/master/genesis.json > ~/.sputnik/config/genesis.json
After downloading you need to verify your genesis.json
checksum
sha256sum ~/.sputnik/config/genesis.json
you should see d416341bd5dd384bb78dc43c0a4413014827c54e82989df9fcc28d3d5df5e8ab
in the output.
Set the peers
PEERS="745870cb265d8c3785da62317d46ecfaf7afa20a@95.217.164.96:26656,db0b3f18280de5ef4cb294912df6a3bf2c1a3f49@95.214.53.164:26656,7413a980948bf2208876d8bb40bb76ea957b1d97@178.215.71.199:26656,d236c62edc593476ad79bb13b028ab80e1c15d3a@128.199.142.104:26656,af6a8ce05b07dadf452fde8c645814c579d06142@88.218.60.250:26656"
sed -i 's|^persistent_peers *=.*|persistent_peers = "'$PEERS'"|' $HOME/.sputnik/config/config.toml
Set minimum-gas-prices
to .sputnik/config/app.toml
MIN_GAS_PRICES=0.001usputnik
sed -i 's|^minimum-gas-prices *=.*|minimum-gas-prices = "'$MIN_GAS_PRICES'"|' $HOME/.sputnik/config/app.toml
Set up cosmovisor to ensure any future upgrades happen flawlessly. To install Cosmovisor
go install cosmossdk.io/tools/cosmovisor/cmd/cosmovisor@v1.5.0
Create the required directories and files
mkdir -p ~/.sputnik/cosmovisor/genesis/bin
mkdir -p ~/.sputnik/cosmovisor/upgrades
After directories will be ready please copy sputnikd
binaries created in the “Cosmos Hub binaries installation (sputnikd)” section into ~/.sputnikd/cosmovisor/genesis/bin
directory. You can do it using next command
cp ~/go/bin/sputnikd ~/.sputnik/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/sputnikd
Set up a service to allow cosmovisor to run in the background as well as restart automatically if it runs into any problems:
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/sputnikd.service > /dev/null << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Sputnik app chain daemon
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Environment="DAEMON_NAME=sputnikd"
Environment="DAEMON_HOME=${HOME}/.sputnik"
Environment="DAEMON_RESTART_AFTER_UPGRADE=true"
Environment="DAEMON_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD_BINARIES=false"
Environment="DAEMON_LOG_BUFFER_SIZE=512"
Environment="UNSAFE_SKIP_BACKUP=true"
User=$USER
ExecStart=${HOME}/go/bin/cosmovisor run start
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=infinity
LimitNPROC=infinity
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
And start service:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable sputnikd
sudo systemctl restart sputnikd
How you can check the logs
sudo journalctl -u sputnikd -f
Set chain-id to sputnik-practice-1
(for CLI)
sputnikd config chain-id sputnik-practice-1
Please refer to the Cosmos Hub documentation on validators for a general overview of running a validator. We are using the exact same validator model and software, but with slightly different parameters and other functionality specific to the Cosmic Horizon Network.