Microtick is approaching its scheduled mainnet launch Wednesday, July 29, 2020 8:00 pm UTC. Follow these instructions to ensure your validator is prepared!
Important:
If your address is on this list: https://microtick.com/mainnet-genesis.html, then you are an Existing Validator. If not, you are a New Validator.
If the current time is before Wednesday, July 29, 2020 8:00 pm UTC, the network is in Prelaunch. Otherwise, it is Postlaunch.
Never delete your private keys (contained in $HOME/.microtick by default) unless you're sure of what you are doing
graph TD;
Everyone[All Validators] --> Step1[Step 1. Install / Update Binaries]
Step1 -- New Validators --> Step1.5[Step1.5. Initialization]
Step1 -- Existing Validators --> CheckNetwork((Launched?))
CheckNetwork -- Prelaunch --> Step3[Step 3. Genesis transaction]
CheckNetwork -- Postlaunch --> Step4[Step4. Running node]
Step1.5 -- Prelaunch --> Step2[Step 2. Genesis account]
Step2 --> Step3
Step3 --> Step4
Step1.5 -- Postlaunch --> Step4
Step4 -- only validators that skipped Step 3 --> Step5[Step 5. Create Validator]
Everyone should perform the following SETUP steps (binaries have been updated to v1.0.0)
SETUP-1. Download the release binaries and .sig file for v1.0.0 from https://microtick.com/releases/mainnet/
SETUP-2. Extract the archive and verify MD5 checksums and signature:
$ keybase verify -i microtick-v1.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz -d microtick-v1.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sig
Signed by microtickzone
$ tar xf microtick-v1.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$ md5sum mtcli
c3d2d334ed0e4d6d3b966cb836876a38 mtcli
$ md5sum mtd
5edd2dbccfd67c5fac51a1e68cd5dfef mtd
SETUP-3. Ensure the binaries 'mtd' and 'mtcli' are in your PATH
$ mtcli version --long
name: Microtick
server_name: mtd
client_name: mtcli
version: v1.0.0
commit: 13c5059c68a7322fa6da41d6031ebc8d3f9f575b
build_tags: build_host=manticore;build_date=Wed 22 Jul 2020 07:10:17 AM MDT
go: go version go1.14 linux/amd64
SETUP-4. Choose a moniker and initialize the working directory:
$ mtd init <moniker>
SETUP-5. Create a validator key (if you do not already have one)
$ mtcli keys add validator
Note: if you're using a Ledger HW wallet for your validator operator account, use the following command instead:
$ mtcli keys add validator --ledger
New validators should perform the following ACCOUNT steps:
ACCOUNT-1. Find your validator address to receive genesis TICK tokens:
$ mtcli keys show validator -a
micro17x67yaxc4vgxmpn6pqpczqh7l8942wvyhfqe6w
ACCOUNT-2. Register for the Microtick mainnet by following the instructions here: https://microtick.com/mainnet-genesis.html
The first 20 public genesis accounts will be awarded 20000 stake tokens (TICK). After the first 20 slots are filled, validators will share a pool of 100000 tokens, with no single validator receiving more than 10000.
All validators should perform the following GENTX steps (skip to Step 4 if network has Launched):
GENTX-1. VERY IMPORTANT After midnight UTC on Friday, July 24 and before Tuesday, July 28, 2020 11:00 pm UTC, ensure sure you have the final genesis.json with all the starting account balances:
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/microtick/validator.git
$ cd validator
$ git checkout mainnet
$ git pull
GENTX-2. Copy the final genesis.json file in this directory to $HOME/.microtick/mtd/config (backup the existing one if desired)
$ cp genesis.json $HOME/.microtick/mtd/config
GENTX-3. Remove any existing gentxs:
$ rm -r $HOME/.microtick/mtd/config/gentx
GENTX-4. Choose your parameters (https://hub.cosmos.network/master/validators/validator-faq.html) and create your genesis tx (this assumes you have your validator key set up using mtcli as described in Step 1)
$ mtd gentx --amount <self delegation amount>
--commission-rate <your commission rate>
--commission-max-rate <max rate>
--commission-max-change-rate <max change rate>
--min-self-delegation <self delegation parameter>
... include any other parameters such as website, details, identity, security contact, etc ...
--name <your validator key's name as shown by 'mtcli keys list'>
Genesis transaction written to "~/.microtick/mtd/config/gentx/gentx-xyz.json"
Example values:
amount: 1000000utick (1 million uticks = 1 tick)
commission rate: 0.1 (for 10% commission)
commission max rate: 0.2 (for 20% commission)
min self delegation: 1 (for 1 tick)
GENTX-5. Create a pull request with your gentx in the "gentx" directory in this repository.
All validators should perform the following RUNTIME steps
RUNTIME-1. VERY IMPORTANT After midnight UTC Tuesday night, update to the latest genesis.json that includes everyone's gentxs.
$ git checkout mainnet
$ git pull
$ cp genesis.json $HOME/.microtick/mtd/config
RUNTIME-2. Edit $HOME/.microtick/mtd/config/config.toml. Change the seeds line to:
seeds = "922043cd83af759dd5a0605b32991667e8fd4977@45.79.207.112:26656,f9c90511c9fd061a6cb5111c86648603622384d0@microtick.spanish-node.es:6868"
RUNTIME-3. Start your node and leave it online for genesis time. You should not need to be present or awake at genesis time, as long as your node is running. (but being online might be beneficial in case problems occur)
$ mtd unsafe-reset-all
$ mtd start
Only validators that are joining after the network start need to do this step
CREATE-1. Wait until node is synced. Make sure 'jq' is installed (apt-get install jq on debian / ubuntu). The following command should return 'false' when synced:
$ mtcli status | jq .sync_info.catching_up
false
CREATE-2. Follow the instructions here to add your validator address: (https://microtick.com/mainnet-genesis.html)
CREATE-3. After receiving tokens, choose your parameters (https://hub.cosmos.network/master/validators/validator-faq.html) and create your validator:
$ mtcli tx staking create-validator --amount <self delegation amount>
--pubkey $(mtd tendermint show-validator)
--moniker <the name you'll call your validator>
--commission-rate <rate>
--commission-max-rate <max rate>
--commission-max-change-rate <max change rate>
--min-self-delegation <min self delegation>
--from $(mtcli keys show validator -a)
--gas auto
--chain-id <the current chain id>
Example values:
amount: 1000000utick (1 million uticks = 1 tick)
commission rate: 0.1 (for 10% commission)
commission max rate: 0.2 (for 20% commission)
min self delegation: 1 (for 1 tick)
name: "Choose a Name" (do not use this for real, think up something better...)
- Create the following config at /etc/systemd/system/mtd.service. You will need to edit the default username ubuntu to your machine username. Note that you may need to use sudo as it lives in a protected folder.
[Unit]
Description=Microtick Node Daemon
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=ubuntu
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mtd start
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=4096
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
- Install the service and start the node.
sudo systemctl enable mtd
sudo systemctl start mtd
journalctl -u mtd.service -f
In the file:
~/.microtick/mtd/config/config.toml
there is a setting named "persistent_peers". These are nodes your node should attempt to stay connected to. Several validators in the community have shared their node IDs and connection information. One or more of these may be added and should be comma separated in the config file:
254400ca1dae2db1149ef7d05a7ba85e83a35019@mt-0.microtick.chorus.one:31656,
2a0be4c18deb4470b910836aec8b1c35a6ec18e0@18.134.11.88:26656,
0778723e7a33df9be69301a1b7d10d4741639c7e@23.94.103.234:26656