🤼‍♂️Joining Testnet

Make sure you completed the Installation step before following this session. You will also need knowledge about linux service file (systemd).

• Current Version: v3.0.0-rc.0

• Chain ID: titan_18889-1

• Denom: atkx, tkx (1e18 atkx)

• Endpoint: Testnet

• Faucet: https://titan-testnet-faucet.titanlab.io

• Explorer: https://testnet.tkxscan.io

Information

The Titan testnet is currently running titand v3.0.0-rc.0. Visit the testnet explorer to view real-time on-chain activity

We recommend running public testnet nodes on a machine with at least two cores, 4GB of RAM, and 50GB of disk space.

Installation & Configuration

Init config file and data

titand init <custom_moniker> --chain-id titan_18889-1

Now, a folder will be created by default in your HOME directory as $HOME/.titand. This folder will store all the configuration and data files of the node during operation.

Retrieve the genesis file of the Titan Chain testnet and store it in the config directory.

cd $HOME
curl -LO https://github.com/titantkx/titan-testnets/raw/main/public/genesis.json.gz
gzip -d genesis.json.gz
mv genesis.json $HOME/.titand/config/genesis.json

Config your node.

Set peers

cd $HOME/.titand/config
sed -i 's/seeds =.*/seeds = "[e-mail]:26656,[e-mail]:26656,[e-mail]:26656"/' config.toml

Config external address

You will need to configure external_address in file config.toml is the external address of your node. Correct this config will allow other nodes in P2P network connect to your node.

Index:

In default, we disable all index and only keep 100 recent blocks to optimize the diskspace used by node.

If you want to enable index, you need to change config in file app.toml and config.toml

• Ethereum transaction (in app.toml)

[json-rpc]

# EnableIndexer enables the custom transaction indexer for the EVM (ethereum transactions).
enable-indexer = true

• TX index, for query tx (in config.toml)

[tx_index]

# What indexer to use for transactions
#
# The application will set which txs to index. In some cases a node operator will be able
# to decide which txs to index based on configuration set in the application.
#
# Options:
#   1) "null"
#   2) "kv" (default) - the simplest possible indexer, backed by key-value storage (defaults to levelDB; see DBBackend).
# 		- When "kv" is chosen "tx.height" and "tx.hash" will always be indexed.
#   3) "psql" - the indexer services backed by PostgreSQL.
# When "kv" or "psql" is chosen "tx.height" and "tx.hash" will always be indexed.
indexer = "kv"

Config state sync

If you use the latest binary version, this is required to sync data from blockchain. If you want to sync data from the genesis block, you must start syncing from genesis binary and follow every upgrade in history.

Without this, your node will have to synchronize data from the genesis, which could take a considerable amount of time. Instead, we will search for snapshots from trusted peers at a specific height and then verify a minimal set of snapshot chunks against the network.

Get the block height and block hash. First, you need to access the explorer website to obtain the nearest block height and its corresponding hash. We configure a node to take a snapshot every 1000 blocks and keep the 10 most recent snapshots. Therefore, the snapshot corresponding to the nearest block height will have the highest thousand value. For example, at the time of writing this guide testnet block height is 986922 so the nearest block height will be 986000. Enter the block height in the search bar at the top of the website to retrieve its hash. The hash of Block 986000 is:

BA8F33B927BE01087C66257EAEE302C3940F7C619A18F72C0EB7789A009B6839

After having block height and block hash run the following command in order (replace <BLOCK_HEIGHT> and <BLOCK_HASH> by the value you found in the above step)

rpc_servers need at least 2 servers.

cd $HOME/.titand/config
sed -i 's/enable =.*/enable = true/' config.toml
sed -i 's/trust_height =.*/trust_height = <BLOCK_HEIGHT>/' config.toml
sed -i 's/trust_hash =.*/trust_hash = "<BLOCK_HASH>"/' config.toml
sed -i 's/rpc_servers =.*/rpc_servers = "https:\/\/titan-testnet-rpc-1.titanlab.io:443,https:\/\/titan-testnet-rpc-2.titanlab.io:443"/' config.toml

Create Service File

To make the upgrade process as convenient as possible, instead of using titand binary directly we recommend you follow this guide to use cosmovisor

Get your absolute path of titand binary and your HOME directory that contains .titan folder

which titand
echo $HOME

Create a service file at /etc/systemd/system/titand.service. Replace <titand_absolute_path> and <home_directory> to your.

To find out your <titand_absolute_path> you can use command which titand. And your <home_directory> by command echo $HOME

[Unit]
Description=Titan service
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=root
ExecStart=<titand_absolute_path> start --x-crisis-skip-assert-invariants --home <home_directory>/.titand
Restart=always
RestartSec=6
LimitNOFILE=4096

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start the Service

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart systemd-journald
systemctl enable titand.service
systemctl start titand.service

Now that your node has started up and the synchronization process has begun, you can check the sync status of the node using the following command. If the node is syncing, it will show true. Please wait until it show false, which means your node has caught up with the network and is ready for querying.

titand status | grep -o '"catching_up":[^,}]*'

If have any issue, you can check error log by

journalctl -fu titand