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Shardeum Betanet Validator Installation

Validator installation guide for Shardeum's Betanet network. Don't forget to star and fork from the top right. If you have questions: LossNode Chat English

System requirements:

NODE TYPE	CPU	RAM	SSD
Betanet	2-4	8	200

Adding the Sphinx (Betanet) to metamask: https://docs.shardeum.org/network/endpoints

Important links for Shardeum:

• Website
• Explorer
• Twitter
• Discord

1) Installation of necessary libraries.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install curl

sudo apt install docker.io -y

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

2) Installing Shardeum Validator.

curl -O https://gitlab.com/shardeum/validator/dashboard/-/raw/main/installer.sh && chmod +x installer.sh && ./installer.sh

Enter y, y, and your dashboard password respectively. After that, just press Enter for rest of them.

3) After seeing an output something like the below, continue.

$HOME/.shardeum/shell.sh

operator-cli gui start

4) Open a browser on your own computer.

Write https://SERVERIP:8080 in the search bar. For example, if your server's IP is 10.11.12.13, type https://10.11.12.13:8080. PRESS IMPROVED IF IT SAYS NOT SAFE, AND FORWARD TO THE SITE.

Enter your dashboard password here.

Click to Maintenance, and click start node.

Connect your Metamask on SPHINX NETWORK. How to add Sphinx Network to Metamask?: Here

Get test tokens from Faucet.

Faucet Links:

• https://faucet-sphinx.shardeum.org/

• https://chaindrop.org/?chainid=8082&token=0xeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  

Stake your test tokens.

Get back to your terminal and enter following commands.

operator-cli start

You can monitor your node/validator with command below.

pm2 list

IF YOUR TRANSACTION IS NOT CONFIRMED WHEN STAKE ON THE NETWORK, YOU CAN APPLY THE FOLLOWING IMAGES IN ORDER.

Reset Account in Advanced settings and try staking again.

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