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mande node setup for testnet — mande-testnet-1

Official documentation:

Validator setup instructions

Explorer:

https://explorer.kjnodes.com/mande

Usefull tools and references

To set up monitoring for your validator node navigate to Set up monitoring and alerting for mande validator

To migrate your validator to another machine read Migrate your validator to another machine

Hardware Requirements

Like any Cosmos-SDK chain, the hardware requirements are pretty modest.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

4x CPUs; the faster clock speed the better
8GB RAM
100GB of storage (SSD or NVME)
Permanent Internet connection (traffic will be minimal during testnet; 10Mbps will be plenty - for production at least 100Mbps is expected)

Recommended Hardware Requirements

8x CPUs; the faster clock speed the better
64GB RAM
1TB of storage (SSD or NVME)
Permanent Internet connection (traffic will be minimal during testnet; 10Mbps will be plenty - for production at least 100Mbps is expected)

Set up your mande fullnode

Option 1 (automatic)

You can setup your mande fullnode in few minutes by using automated script below. It will prompt you to input your validator node name!

wget -O mande.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kj89/testnet_manuals/main/mande/mande.sh && chmod +x mande.sh && ./mande.sh

Option 2 (manual)

You can follow manual guide if you better prefer setting up node manually

Post installation

When installation is finished please load variables into system

source $HOME/.bash_profile

Next you have to make sure your validator is syncing blocks. You can use command below to check synchronization status

mande-chaind status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

(OPTIONAL) State Sync

You can state sync your node in minutes by running commands below

SNAP_RPC=http://38.242.199.93:24657
peers="[email protected]:24656"
sed -i.bak -e  "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" ~/.mande-chain/config/config.toml
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s $SNAP_RPC/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height); \
BLOCK_HEIGHT=$((LATEST_HEIGHT - 500)); \
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/.mande-chain/config/config.toml

mande-chaind tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.mande-chain --keep-addr-book
systemctl restart mande-chaind && journalctl -u mande-chaind -f -o cat

Create wallet

To create new wallet you can use command below. Don’t forget to save the mnemonic

mande-chaind keys add $WALLET

(OPTIONAL) To recover your wallet using seed phrase

mande-chaind keys add $WALLET --recover

To get current list of wallets

mande-chaind keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and valoper address into variables

MANDE_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(mande-chaind keys show $WALLET -a)
MANDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(mande-chaind keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export MANDE_WALLET_ADDRESS='${MANDE_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export MANDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${MANDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Fund your wallet

Navigate to https://discord.gg/ms3tWhedvp #faucet-requests channel

Create validator

Before creating validator please make sure that you have at least 1 know (1 know is equal to 1000000 mand) and your node is synchronized

To check your wallet balance:

mande-chaind query bank balances $MANDE_WALLET_ADDRESS

If your wallet does not show any balance than probably your node is still syncing. Please wait until it finish to synchronize and then continue

To create your validator run command below

mande-chaind tx staking create-validator \
  --amount 1000000mand \
  --from $WALLET \
  --commission-max-change-rate "0.01" \
  --commission-max-rate "0.2" \
  --commission-rate "0.07" \
  --min-self-delegation "1" \
  --pubkey  $(mande-chaind tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker $NODENAME \
  --chain-id $MANDE_CHAIN_ID

Security

To protect you keys please make sure you follow basic security rules

Set up ssh keys for authentication

Good tutorial on how to set up ssh keys for authentication to your server can be found here

Basic Firewall security

Start by checking the status of ufw.

sudo ufw status

Sets the default to allow outgoing connections, deny all incoming except ssh and 26656. Limit SSH login attempts

sudo ufw default allow outgoing
sudo ufw default deny incoming
sudo ufw allow ssh/tcp
sudo ufw limit ssh/tcp
sudo ufw allow ${MANDE_PORT}656,${MANDE_PORT}660/tcp
sudo ufw enable

Monitoring

To monitor and get alerted about your validator health status you can use my guide on Set up monitoring and alerting for mande validator

Calculate synchronization time

This script will help you to estimate how much time it will take to fully synchronize your node
It measures average blocks per minute that are being synchronized for period of 5 minutes and then gives you results

wget -O synctime.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kj89/testnet_manuals/main/mande/tools/synctime.py && python3 ./synctime.py

Check your validator key

[[ $(mande-chaind q staking validator $MANDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(mande-chaind status | jq -r .ValidatorInfo.PubKey.value) ]] && echo -e "\n\e[1m\e[32mTrue\e[0m\n" || echo -e "\n\e[1m\e[31mFalse\e[0m\n"

Get list of validators

mande-chaind q staking validators -oj --limit=3000 | jq '.validators[] | select(.status=="BOND_STATUS_BONDED")' | jq -r '(.tokens|tonumber/pow(10; 6)|floor|tostring) + " \t " + .description.moniker' | sort -gr | nl

Get currently connected peer list with ids

curl -sS http://localhost:${MANDE_PORT}657/net_info | jq -r '.result.peers[] | "\(.node_info.id)@\(.remote_ip):\(.node_info.listen_addr)"' | awk -F ':' '{print $1":"$(NF)}'

Usefull commands

Service management

Check logs

journalctl -fu mande-chaind -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start mande-chaind

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop mande-chaind

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart mande-chaind

Node info

Synchronization info

mande-chaind status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Validator info

mande-chaind status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Node info

mande-chaind status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo

Show node id

mande-chaind tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

mande-chaind keys list

Recover wallet

mande-chaind keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

mande-chaind keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

mande-chaind query bank balances $MANDE_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

mande-chaind tx bank send $MANDE_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_MANDE_WALLET_ADDRESS> 10000000mand

Voting

mande-chaind tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$MANDE_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

mande-chaind tx staking delegate $MANDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS 10000000mand --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$MANDE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

mande-chaind tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 10000000mand --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$MANDE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

mande-chaind tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$MANDE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

mande-chaind tx distribution withdraw-rewards $MANDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$MANDE_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

mande-chaind tx staking edit-validator \
  --moniker=$NODENAME \
  --identity=<your_keybase_id> \
  --website="<your_website>" \
  --details="<your_validator_description>" \
  --chain-id=$MANDE_CHAIN_ID \
  --from=$WALLET

Unjail validator

mande-chaind tx slashing unjail \
  --broadcast-mode=block \
  --from=$WALLET \
  --chain-id=$MANDE_CHAIN_ID \
  --gas=auto

Delete node

This commands will completely remove node from server. Use at your own risk!

sudo systemctl stop mande-chaind
sudo systemctl disable mande-chaind
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/mande* -rf
sudo rm $(which mande-chaind) -rf
sudo rm $HOME/.mande-chain* -rf
sudo rm $HOME/mande -rf
sed -i '/MANDE_/d' ~/.bash_profile

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README.md

mande node setup for testnet — mande-testnet-1

Usefull tools and references

Hardware Requirements

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Recommended Hardware Requirements

Set up your mande fullnode

Option 1 (automatic)

Option 2 (manual)

Post installation

(OPTIONAL) State Sync

Create wallet

Save wallet info

Fund your wallet

Create validator

Security

Set up ssh keys for authentication

Basic Firewall security

Monitoring

Calculate synchronization time

Check your validator key

Get list of validators

Get currently connected peer list with ids

Usefull commands

Service management

Node info

Wallet operations

Voting

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Validator management

Delete node

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parent directory

README.md

mande node setup for testnet — mande-testnet-1

Usefull tools and references

Hardware Requirements

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Recommended Hardware Requirements

Set up your mande fullnode

Option 1 (automatic)

Option 2 (manual)

Post installation

(OPTIONAL) State Sync

Create wallet

Save wallet info

Fund your wallet

Create validator

Security

Set up ssh keys for authentication

Basic Firewall security

Monitoring

Calculate synchronization time

Check your validator key

Get list of validators

Get currently connected peer list with ids

Usefull commands

Service management

Node info

Wallet operations

Voting

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Validator management

Delete node