testnet-laconicd-stack/testnet-onboarding-validator.md

testnet-onboarding-validator

Onboard as a participant / validator on stage0

• Visit https://wallet.laconic.com/ and click on Create wallet

  • Save the mnemonic for further usage

• Register your laconic address as a participant using the Onboarding App

  • Read and accept the Terms and Conditions

  • On next page, enter your email to register to join the LORO testnet

  • Visit the confirmation link sent on the registered email (email delivery might take a few minutes)

    • It should take you to the Testnet Onboarding app

    • Note: The confirmation link will only work the first time, visit https://loro-signup.laconic.com/sign-with-nitro-key for further attempts if required

  • Connect testnet-onboarding app to the wallet:

    • Click on CONNECT WALLET button on the testnet-onboarding app

    • Click on the WalletConnect icon on the top right corner in the wallet

      • If using the wallet website, enter WalletConnect URI for pairing

  • In the onboarding app, choose your nitro and laconicd account to onboard

  • Sign using the nitro key

    • Approve sign request on Wallet

  • Select the desired participant role (Validator or Participant) and accept the onboarding terms and conditions

  • In the next step, fund your laconic account by clicking on the REQUEST TOKENS FROM FAUCET button; ensure that the displayed balance is updated

  • Send transaction request to the wallet

    • From wallet, approve and send transaction to stage0 laconicd chain

Join as a validator on stage1

Prerequisites

• Minimum hardware requirements:

  RAM: 8-16GB
  Disk space: 200GB
  CPU: 2 cores
  

• Testnet genesis file and peer node address

• Mnemonic from the wallet

• Participant onboarded on stage0

Setup

• Clone the stack repo:

  laconic-so fetch-stack git.vdb.to/cerc-io/testnet-laconicd-stack
  

• Clone required repositories:

  laconic-so --stack ~/cerc/testnet-laconicd-stack/stack-orchestrator/stacks/testnet-laconicd setup-repositories --pull
  
  # If this throws an error as a result of being already checked out to a branch/tag in a repo, remove the repositories and re-run the command
  

• Build the container images:

  laconic-so --stack ~/cerc/testnet-laconicd-stack/stack-orchestrator/stacks/testnet-laconicd build-containers
  

  This should create the following docker images locally:

  • cerc/laconicd

Create a deployment

• Create a spec file for the deployment:

  laconic-so --stack ~/cerc/testnet-laconicd-stack/stack-orchestrator/stacks/testnet-laconicd deploy init --output testnet-laconicd-spec.yml
  

• Edit network in the spec file to map container ports to host ports as required:

  # testnet-laconicd-spec.yml
  ...
  network:
    ports:
      laconicd:
        - '6060:6060'
        - '26657:26657'
        - '26656:26656'
        - '9473:9473'
        - '9090:9090'
        - '1317:1317'
  

• Create the deployment from the spec file:

  laconic-so --stack ~/cerc/testnet-laconicd-stack/stack-orchestrator/stacks/testnet-laconicd deploy create --spec-file testnet-laconicd-spec.yml --deployment-dir testnet-laconicd-deployment
  

• Copy over the published testnet genesis file (.json) to data directory in deployment (testnet-laconicd-deployment/data/laconicd-data/tmp):

  # Example
  mkdir -p testnet-laconicd-deployment/data/laconicd-data/tmp
  cp genesis.json testnet-laconicd-deployment/data/laconicd-data/tmp/genesis.json
  

Configuration

• Inside the testnet-laconicd-deployment deployment directory, open config.env file and set following env variables:

  # Comma separated list of nodes to keep persistent connections to
  # Example: "node-1-id@laconicd.laconic.com:26656"
  # Use the provided node id
  CERC_PEERS=""
  
  # A custom human readable name for this node
  CERC_MONIKER=
  

Start the deployment

laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment start

Check status

• To list down and monitor the running containers:

  # With status
  docker ps -a
  
  # Follow logs for laconicd container
  laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment logs laconicd -f
  

• Check the sync status of your node:

  laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd "laconicd status | jq .sync_info"
  
  # `catching_up: false` indicates that node is completely synced
  

• After the node has caught up, view current list of validators:

  laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd "laconicd query staking validators"
  

  • Confirm that in the list of validators, your node moniker does not exist

Join as testnet validator

• Open the wallet: https://wallet.laconic.com/

• Create a validator from the onboarding app:

  • Visit the validator creation page

    • If required, connect testnet-onboarding app to the wallet with which onboarding was done on stage0

  • Select the Laconic account (same as the one used while onboarding) using which you wish to send the create validator request

    • This should display the details of your onboarded participant

    • You can proceed if the participant has validator role

  • Enter your node's moniker (use the same one used while configuring the testnet-laconicd-deployment)

  • Fetch and enter your validator's pubkey:

    laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd "laconicd cometbft show-validator" | jq -r .key
    

  • Send the transaction request to wallet

    • From wallet, approve and send transaction to stage1 laconicd chain

• Alternatively, create a validator using the laconicd CLI:

  • Import a key pair:

    KEY_NAME=alice
    
    # Restore existing key with mnemonic seed phrase
    # You will be prompted to enter mnemonic seed
    laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd "laconicd keys add $KEY_NAME --recover"
    
    # Query the keystore for your account's address
    laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd "laconicd keys show $KEY_NAME -a"
    

  • Check balance for your account:

    laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd "laconicd query bank balances <account-address>"
    

  • Create required validator configuration:

    # Note:
    # Edit the staking amount and other fields as required
    # Replace <your-node-moniker> with your node's moniker in command below
    
    laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd 'cat <<EOF > my-validator.json
    {
      "pubkey": $(laconicd cometbft show-validator),
      "amount": "1000000000000000alnt",
      "moniker": "<your-node-moniker>",
      "commission-rate": "0.1",
      "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
      "commission-max-change-rate": "0.01",
      "min-self-delegation": "1"
    }
    EOF'
    

  • Create a validator:

    laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd "laconicd tx staking create-validator my-validator.json \
    --fees 500000alnt \
    --chain-id=laconic_9000-1 \
    --from $KEY_NAME"
    

• View validators:

  laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd "laconicd query staking validators"
  

  • Check that in the list of validators <your-node-moniker> exists

• View validator set:

  laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment exec laconicd "laconicd query consensus comet validator-set"
  

Clean up

• Stop all testnet-laconicd services running in the background:

  # Stop the docker containers
  laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment stop
  

• To stop all services and also delete data:

  # Stop the docker containers
  laconic-so deployment --dir testnet-laconicd-deployment stop --delete-volumes
  
  # Remove deployment directory (deployment will have to be recreated for a re-run)
  sudo rm -r testnet-laconicd-deployment
  

Troubleshooting

• If you face any issues in the onboarding app or the web-wallet, clear your browser cache and reload