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# Side Protocol

## Side-protocol-S2-Testnet1

## Hardware requirements

```
    - Memory: 8 GB RAM
    - CPU: 4 cores
    - Disk: 200 GB NVME
    - Bandwidth: 1 Gbps
    - Linux amd64 arm64 (Ubuntu LTS release)
```

**Public Endpoints**

> <https://sided-testnet-api.validator247.com>
>
> <https://sided-testnet-rpc.validator247.com>

**Explorer**&#x20;

> <https://explorer.validator247.com/side-protocol-testnet/staking/bcvaloper13nn5m5dq6ttyrwq8zqx5nu77sp3w3ppkhf74a5>

## Update system

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install git curl build-essential make jq gcc snapd chrony lz4 tmux unzip bc -y
```

## Install Go

```
 rm -rf $HOME/go
 sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
 cd $HOME
 curl https://dl.google.com/go/go1.22.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -C/usr/local -zxvf -
 cat <<'EOF' >>$HOME/.profile
 export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
 export GOPATH=$HOME/go
 export GO111MODULE=on
 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin
 EOF
 source $HOME/.profile
 go version
```

## Build sided binary

```
 cd $HOME
 rm -rf sidechain
 git clone -b dev https://github.com/sideprotocol/sidechain.git
 cd sidechain
 git checkout v0.8.0
 make install
 sided version
```

## Set up variables

```
 sided init NodeName --chain-id=S2-testnet-1
```

## Download Genesis:

```
wget https://github.com/Validator247/Side-protocol-S2-Testnet1/raw/main/genesis.json -O genesis.json
```

## Download addrbook

```
    wget https://github.com/Validator247/Side-protocol-S2-Testnet1/raw/main/addrbook.json -O addrbook.json
```

## Create Service

```
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/sided.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=sided Daemon
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which sided) start
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable sided  
```

## Snapshot

```
SNAP_NAME=$(curl -s https://ss-t.side.nodestake.org/ | egrep -o ">20.*\.tar.lz4" | tr -d ">")

curl -o - -L https://ss-t.side.nodestake.org/${SNAP_NAME}  | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.side

mv $HOME/.side/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.side/data/priv_validator_state.json     
```

## State-sync

```
sudo systemctl stop sided

SNAP_RPC="https://side-rpc.validatorvn.com:443"

cp $HOME/.side/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.side/priv_validator_state.json.backup
sided tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home ~/.side/ --keep-addr-book

LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s $SNAP_RPC/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height); \
BLOCK_HEIGHT=$((LATEST_HEIGHT - 2000)); \
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\"|" ~/.side/config/config.toml
more ~/.side/config/config.toml | grep 'rpc_servers'
more ~/.side/config/config.toml | grep 'trust_height'
more ~/.side/config/config.toml | grep 'trust_hash'

sudo mv $HOME/.side/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.side/data/priv_validator_state.json

sudo systemctl restart sided && journalctl -u sided -f -o cat
```

## Create a wallet

```
sided keys add wallet
```

## Query Wallet Balance

```
sided q bank balances $(sided keys show wallet -a)
```

## Check sync status

```
sided status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo.catching_up
```

## Create Validator

```
sided tx staking create-validator \
--amount=1000000uside \
--pubkey=$(sided tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker=noname \
--chain-id=S2-testnet-1 \
--commission-rate=0.05 \
--commission-max-rate=0.10 \
--commission-max-change-rate=0.01 \
--min-self-delegation=1 \
--from=wallet \
--identity="keybase" \
--website="website" \
--security-contact="email" \
--details="i love validator247" \
--fees=2000uside --gas=200000 \
-y
```

## Delegate tokens to your validator

```
    sided tx staking delegate $(sided keys show wallet --bech val -a)  <AMOUNT>uside --from wallet --fees 2000uside --gas 200000 -y
```

## DONE&#x20;