Run your node as a genesis validator

Once the CHAIN_ID has been released, it is possible to join the testnet. If the node joining is registered as a genesis-validator in the genesis file, it will be able to participate in the consensus and produce blocks from the start of the chain.

Joining the network

As a genesis validator, it is then possible to join the network with the CHAIN_ID distributed. Let's say this CHAIN_ID is namada-mainnet.

In this case, the genesis validator can join the network with:

export CHAIN_ID="namada-mainnet"
namada client utils join-network \
--chain-id $CHAIN_ID --genesis-validator $ALIAS

Start your node and sync

NAMADA_LOG=info CMT_LOG_LEVEL=p2p:none,pex:error NAMADA_CMT_STDOUT=true namada node ledger run

Optional: If you want more logs, you can instead run

NAMADA_LOG=debug CMT_LOG_LEVEL=p2p:none,pex:error NAMADA_CMT_STDOUT=true namada node ledger run

And if you want to save your logs to a file, you can instead run:

TIMESTAMP=$(date +%s)
NAMADA_LOG=debug CMT_LOG_LEVEL=p2p:none,pex:error NAMADA_CMT_STDOUT=true namada node ledger run &> logs-${TIMESTAMP}.txt
tail -f -n 20 logs-${TIMESTAMP}.txt ## (in another shell)

If started correctly you should see the following log:

[<timestamp>] This node is a validator ...