💠Side Protocol

The Extension Layer of #Bitcoin

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

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