Junø - Hera Testnet

Planned Start Time: September 8th at 4 PM UTC.

Please have your gentx submitted by Tuesday, September 7th, 10pm UTC if you wish to participate.

This testnet will not be incentivized.

If you're interested in earning Juno, checkout Hack Juno.

Setup

Prerequisites: Make sure to have Golang >=1.17.

Build from source

You need to ensure your gopath configuration is correct. If the following 'make' step does not work then you might have to add these lines to your .profile or .zshrc in the users home folder:

export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GO111MODULE=on
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin

git clone https://github.com/CosmosContracts/Juno
cd Juno
make build && make install

This will build and install junod binary into $GOBIN.

Note: When building from source, it is important to have your $GOPATH set correctly. When in doubt, the following should do:

mkdir ~/go
export GOPATH=~/go

Minimum hardware requirements

• 2GB RAM
• 25GB of disk space
• 1.4 GHz amd64 CPU

Setup validator node

Below are the instructions to generate & submit your genesis transaction

Generate genesis transaction (gentx)

This testnet is a simulation of Juno mainnet. Similar to Osmosis, only nodes that received the airdrop will be able to validate. Others will be able to join the validator set at a later date.

1. Initialize the Juno directories and create the local genesis file with the correct chain-id

   junod init <moniker-name> --chain-id=hera

2. Create a local key pair (you should use the same key associated with you airdropped account)

   > junod keys add <key-name>

   Note: since this testnet involves using the same Cosmos Hub key that you received your airdrop with, you may wish to use an offline key. Do this with junod keys add <key-name> --pubkey <your-pubkey>. For the rest of the transactions, you will use the --generate-only flag and sign them offline with junod tx sign.

3. Download the pre-genesis file:

   curl -s  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CosmosContracts/testnets/main/hera/pre-genesis.json >~/.juno/config/genesis.json

   Find your account in the hera/pre-genesis.json file. The balance of your airdrop is what you'll be able to use with your validator.

4. Create the gentx:

   junod gentx <key-name> <balance>ujuno --chain-id=hera

   If all goes well, you will see a message similar to the following:

   Genesis transaction written to "/home/user/.juno/config/gentx/gentx-******.json"

Submit genesis transaction

• Fork the testnets repo into your Github account

• Clone your repo using

  git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/testnets

• Copy the generated gentx json file to <repo_path>/hera/gentx/

  > cd testnets
  > cp ~/.juno/config/gentx/gentx*.json ./hera/gentx/

• Commit and push to your repo

• Create a PR onto https://github.com/CosmosContracts/testnets

• Only PRs from individuals / groups with a history successfully running nodes will be accepted. This is to ensure the network successfully starts on time.

Running in production

Note, we'll be going through some upgrades soon after Juno mainnet. Consider using Cosmovisor to make your life easier.

Download Genesis file when the time is right. Put it in your /home/user/.juno folder.

Create a systemd file for your Juno service:

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/junod.service

Copy and paste the following and update <YOUR_USERNAME>, <GO_WORKSPACE>, and <CHAIN_ID>:

Description=Juno daemon
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=root
ExecStart=/home/<YOUR_USERNAME>/<GO_WORKSPACE>/go/bin/junod start --p2p.laddr tcp://0.0.0.0:26656 --home /home/<YOUR_USERNAME>/.juno
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=4096

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

2 This assumes $HOME/go_workspace to be your Go workspace, and $HOME/.juno to be your directory for config and data. Your actual directory locations may vary.

Enable and start the new service:

sudo systemctl enable junod
sudo systemctl start junod

Check status:

junod status

Check logs:

journalctl -u junod -f

Learn more

• Starport
• SPN
• Cosmos Network
• Cosmos Community Discord (check out the #starport channel)