Join Amber testnet as a Validator
This document introduces how to join the amber as a validator node.
Before you start, you must have a trusted server running bitcoincashnode's client with RPC enabled. The executable
smartbchd will connect to it for querying staking information.Then clone the source code of smartBCH and build the executable of
smartbchd.cd ~/smart_bch
git clone -b v0.4.2 --depth 1 https://github.com/smartbch/smartbch
cd smartbch
go build -tags "params_amber cppbtree" github.com/smartbch/smartbch/cmd/smartbchd
After successfully executing the above commands, you'll get a ~/smart_bch/smartbch/smartbchd file for amber.
cp ~/smart_bch/smartbch/smartbchd ~/build/smartbchd
cd ~
rm -rf .smartbchd
~/build/smartbchd init mynode --chain-id 0x2711
wget https://github.com/smartbch/artifacts/releases/download/v0.0.5/dot.smartbchd.tgz
tar zxvf dot.smartbchd.tgz
cp -rf dot.smartbchd/* .smartbchd/
Then, copy the priv_validator_key.json to work directory by running command below:
cp ./priv_validator_key.json ~/.smartbchd/config/
Open the
~/.smartbchd/config/app.toml file to modify the information of the bitcoincashnode's client with RPC enabled.# BCH mainnet rpc url
mainnet-rpc-url = "http://ip-address:8332"
# BCH mainnet rpc username
mainnet-rpc-username = "<my user name>"
# BCH mainnet rpc password
mainnet-rpc-password = "<my password>"
cd ~/build
~/build/smartbchd start --mainnet-genesis-height=602983
Using validator private key and consensus pubkey generated in step 3 to build command below:
./smartbchd staking \
--validator-key=<your validator private key> \
--staking-coin=1 \
--consensus-pubkey=<your consensus pub key> \
--introduction=<your validator introduction> \
--type=create \
--nonce=0 \
--gas-price=10000000000 \
--chain-id=0x2711
This command generate createValidator tx raw data, send it in step 8 below.
Get some BCH from some one has BCH in smartBCH already to your validator account. To check your account balance like this.
curl -X POST --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getBalance","params":["<your validator account address>","latest"],"id":1}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://127.0.0.1:8545
Please go to https://amber.xhedge.cash/ to split your BCH to LeverNFT and HedgeNFT, and vote for your validator just created.
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