Autonity Incentivized Validator (Phase/Game R6)

Round 6 is open for everyone!

Start Time : June 26th 2024 00:00:00 UTC

Duration : 6 weeks

Game 6 Link

120 winners for Validator, more info

50 winners for Public RPC Node, more info

There are more tasks for this round E.g. "Community Incentives" ( Like + Retweet), Check them all here

We’ll cover in this tutorial:

Validator Node Task

I prefer Validator in tutorial but there is a registration proccess for just RPC Node

Useful links

Autonity Discord
Validators Stakeflow Dashboard
Game6 Leaderboard

Validator Installation

1- Install Dependecies

1.1- Install libraries

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

apt install curl iptables build-essential git wget jq make gcc nano tmux htop nvme-cli pkg-config libssl-dev libleveldb-dev tar clang bsdmainutils ncdu unzip chrony libleveldb-dev liblz4-tool -y

1.2- Install Golang

# remove old versions
sudo apt-get remove golang-go
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove golang-go
cd $HOME && rm -rf go

# install
VERSION="1.21.6"
ARCH="amd64"
curl -O -L "https://golang.org/dl/go${VERSION}.linux-${ARCH}.tar.gz"
wget -L "https://golang.org/dl/go${VERSION}.linux-${ARCH}.tar.gz"
wget -L "https://golang.org/dl/go${VERSION}.linux-${ARCH}.tar.gz"
curl -sL https://golang.org/dl/ | grep -A 5 -w "go${VERSION}.linux-${ARCH}.tar.gz"
tar -xf "go${VERSION}.linux-${ARCH}.tar.gz"
sudo chown -R root:root ./go
sudo mv -v go /usr/local
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin
source ~/.bash_profile
go version

1.3- Install ethkey (to pull-out private key from seed files)

git clone https://github.com/autonity/autonity.git autonity1
cd autonity1
make all
mv build/bin/ethkey /usr/local/bin

ethkey --version

Important:

#Only if you have problems installing aut or other binaries, use these below commands or pass it.

export CGO_CFLAGS="-O -D__BLST_PORTABLE__" 
export CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW="-O -D__BLST_PORTABLE__"
make clean

2. Install Autonity Utility (Aut)

2.1 install Python3

cd
sudo apt install python3-pip && sudo apt install python3.10-venv && sudo pip install pipx

2.2 Install Aut

pipx install --force git+https://github.com/autonity/aut
mv /root/.local/bin/aut /usr/local/bin/aut

aut --version
# aut, version 0.4.0

2.2 Edit .autrc file

tee <<EOF >/dev/null $HOME/.autrc
[aut]
rpc_endpoint= ws://127.0.0.1:8546
EOF

3. Install Autonity RPC Node

Recommended Specifications

3.1 Open ports

sudo ufw allow 8545 && sudo ufw allow 8546 && sudo ufw allow 6060 && sudo ufw allow 30303

3.2 Install Autonity

cd
git clone https://github.com/autonity/autonity && cd autonity
git checkout tags/v0.14.0 -b v0.14.0
make autonity
mv $HOME/autonity/build/bin/autonity /usr/local/bin/

autonity version
# Version: 0.14.0

3.3 Create Keys

cd
mkdir -p $HOME/autonity-chaindata/autonity

We need to create nodekey, tresure.key and oracle.key

nodekey is the main key of the node, from which the validator address and enode are formed

tresure.key will be our treasury. Using this key we will register task forms, receive faucet, delegate to the validator and we will receive rewards for this key

oracle.key will be used as the cryptographic identifier of the Oracle server and will be used to sign price report transactions sent to Oracle Contract on-chain

Before we Deploy Oracle Node, we need to Fund our oracle.key with at least 0.1 $ATN

3.4 Generate nodekey

autonity genAutonityKeys $HOME/autonity-chaindata/autonity/nodekey --writeaddress

# Node address: 0xac16454f6D7B5725F4221f86D935963C87Dae7F5
# Node public key:0x1988dee846c92a7a95b5ddc62a808f6a34eb13aa567bcc9caf6ef7a5
# Consensus public key:0x87f764f47664b635290ffaa567bcc9caf6ef7a51116cafc7c0

3.5 Create a separate directory for tresure.key and oracle.key

mkdir -p $HOME/.autonity/keystore

3.6 Create an oracle wallet and save the created file

aut account new -k $HOME/.autonity/keystore/oracle.key

3.7 Create a tresure wallet and save the created file

aut account new -k $HOME/.autonity/keystore/tresure.key

If you are an existing user of Game R5 you need to import your last round tresurekey which was registered in the R4 form

Make a wallet.priv file in your root directory and paste your previous wallet privatekey in it

aut account import-private-key ./wallet.priv -k $HOME/.autonity/keystore/tresure.key

IMPORTANT: save your key files, addresses and your passphrase in a safe place

3.8 Add tresurekey to .autrc file

nano $HOME/.autrc

add this in the next line keyfile=/root/.autonity/keystore/tresure.key

Ctrl+X+Y Enter

3.9 Create your Node service file

tee  << EOF > /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/autonity.service
[Unit]
Description=autonity node
After=network.target
[Service]
User= $USER
Type=simple
ExecStart= $( which autonity ) --datadir $HOME/autonity-chaindata --syncmode full --piccadilly --http --http.addr 0.0.0.0 --http.api aut,eth,net,txpool,web3,admin --http.vhosts * --ws --ws.addr 127.0.0.1 --ws.api aut,eth,net,txpool,web3,admin --autonitykeys $HOME/autonity-chaindata/autonity/nodekey --nat extip:$( wget -qO- eth0.me )
Restart=on-failure
LimitNOFILE=65535
--bootnodes enode://48a10db920251436ee1d7989db6cbab734157d5bd3ec9d534021e4903fdab51407ba4fd936bd6af1d188e3f464374c437accefa40f0312eac9bc9ae6fc0a2782@34.105.239.129:30303
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

3.10 Run your Autonity RPC Node

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable autonity
sudo systemctl restart autonity && journalctl -u autonity -f  -o  cat

To exit: Ctrl+C

4- FORM 1 - REGISTRATION

IMPORTANT - register only if you did not participate in round 4 (R4)

Now is the time to register your participation in the test network to receive test tokens. To do this, go to the website and fill out the data - https://game.autonity.org/getting-started/register.html

In the autonity address field , insert the tresure address

In the Signature hash field , insert the hash of the signed transaction after the following command:

aut account sign-message "I have read and agree to comply with the Piccadilly Circus Games Competition Terms and Conditions published on IPFS with CID QmVghJVoWkFPtMBUcCiqs7Utydgkfe19wkLunhS5t57yEu"

After registration, you will receive a confirmation email and tokens should be credited to your balance. You can check your balance in Explorer or with the command:

aut account info

5- Install Oracle

Recommended Specifications

5.1 Install

cd
git clone https://github.com/autonity/autonity-oracle && cd autonity-oracle
git fetch --all 
git checkout v0.1.9 
make autoracle
mv build/bin/autoracle /usr/local/bin

autoracle version
# v0.1.9

5.2 Edit Plugin-conf.yml

nano $HOME/autonity-oracle/build/bin/plugins-conf.yml

You now need to remove # from bottom lines, Register in the data-feed websites and add your custom API to the lines

Websites:

https://currencyfreaks.com
https://openexchangerates.org
https://currencylayer.com (this one needs card number & address, you can skip it and leave it with #)
https://www.exchangerate-api.com

5.3 Fund oracle.key

Add oracle.key privatekey to metamask

ethkey inspect --private /root/.autonity/keystore/oracle.key

Add tresure.key privatekey to metamask

ethkey inspect --private /root/.autonity/keystore/tresure.key

Add Piccadilly Network to Metamask

ChainID: 65100003

Network Name:Autonity Piccadilly (Barada) Testnet

New RPC URL: https://rpc1.piccadilly.autonity.org/

Symbol: ATN - for transactions

Symbol: NTN - for delegation to validator

Explorer: https://piccadilly.autonity.org/

If you have problem adding official rpc to your metamask, you can add your own node rpc to metamask

Your node rpc is: http://YourIP:8545

Send 0.1 ATN from tresure.key to oracle.key

5.4 Create service Oracle Node service file

change PASSWORD in -key.password argument and run the command

tee <<EOF >/dev/null /etc/systemd/system/antoracle.service
[Unit]
Description=Autonity Oracle Server
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=$(which autoracle) -key.file="/root/.autonity/keystore/oracle.key" -plugin.dir="/root/autonity-oracle/build/bin/plugins/" -plugin.conf="/root/autonity-oracle/build/bin/plugins-conf.yml" -key.password="PASSWORD" -ws="ws://127.0.0.1:8546"
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

5.4 Run Oracle

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable antoracle
systemctl restart antoracle && journalctl -u antoracle -f  -o  cat

To exit: Ctrl+C

6. Register Validator

6.1 Create proof of node ownership

Replace privatekey_oracle and tresure_account_address with your values

autonity genOwnershipProof --autonitykeys $HOME/autonity-chaindata/autonity/nodekey --oraclekeyhex privatekey_oracle tresure_account_address

Save Signature Hash

6.2 Get your enode

aut node info

For example my enode is: enode://8f8656b34583911dcd9cdbff4b1dertyb472f7c48ea2456456beb1044930c83yrtbyrt59@22.125.458.10:30303

6.3 Get your Validator address

Replace

aut validator compute-address <enode>

6.4 Get the consensus public key

ethkey autinspect $HOME/autonity-chaindata/autonity/nodekey

6.5 Send Validator Registration Transaction

Replace ENODE ORACLE_ADDRESS CONSENSUS_KEY PROOF

Proof: Node ownership Signature Hash ( step: 6.1 )

aut validator register ENODE ORACLE_ADDRESS CONSENSUS_KEY PROOF | aut tx sign - | aut tx send -

6.6 Find your validator address in the validators list

aut validator list

6.7 Check validator info

Replace VALIDATOR_ADDRESS

aut validator info --validator VALIDATOR_ADDRESS

7. Bond NTN stake to your Validator

Replace VALIDATOR_ADDRESS

aut validator bond --validator VALIDATOR_ADDRESS 1 | aut tx sign - | aut tx send -

8. Form 2 - Validator Registeration

Now is the time to register your validator. To do this, go to the website and fill out the data - https://stake-delegation.pages.dev/#join

On the node, you need to sign a message with your validator nodekey instead of your tresurekey (we signed with tresurekey in form 1)

8.1 Get private key of nodekey

our default signing key is tresure key, we need to sign a message specifically with our nodekey so we need to create a nodekey2 file which contains our nodekey privatekey

head -c 64 $HOME/autonity-chaindata/autonity/nodekey

8.2 Enter your Private key in the file

nano $HOME/nodekey2

Ctrl+X+Y Enter

8.3 Add nodekey file to our account lists

aut account import-private-key $HOME/nodekey2
mv $HOME/.autonity/keystore/UTC* $HOME/.autonity/keystore/nodekey.key

8.4 Sign ”Validator Onboarded” message with our nodekey

aut account sign-message "Application for the stake delegation program" -k $HOME/.autonity/keystore/nodekey.key

As soon as the validator is selected to the committee, we should see similar logs on the node

CAUTIOS

Now we have our validator registered on the network with 1 NTN stake bonded to it but if we want to get Testnet Points, we need to be in committee
There’s a limited room in committee and it depends on the NTN staked on your validator. So you need more NTN to be in top100 in stakeflow
Check committee leaderboard here

9. Buy NTN in CAX

CAX is a centralized automated exchange. If you have already registered in the Form 1, then your CAX account is automatically funded with 1 MILLION USD . It's linked to your registered member account so you can easily move assets between internal and external networks

The exchange uses API keys for authentication, so you must create an API key for your account before you start trading

You must be early or tricky to buy more NTN in lower prices in CAX

9.1 Install httpie

sudo apt install snapd

sudo rm -rf /snap/httpie
sudo rm -rf /var/snap/httpie

export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin

pip install httpie==3.0.0

# your httpie version must be exactly 3.0.0
httpie --version

9.2 Get API KEY

MESSAGE=$(jq -nc --arg nonce "$(date +%s%N)" '$ARGS.named')

aut account sign-message $MESSAGE message.sig -k $HOME/.autonity/keystore/tresure.key > message.sig

echo -n $MESSAGE | https --verify=no https://cax.piccadilly.autonity.org/api/apikeys api-sig:@message.sig

9.3 Get USDC on your CAX offchain account

1- All registered participants received 1,000,000 USDC on Polygon Amoy testnet Network in their registered tresure wallet

2- Bridge USDC from Polygon Amoy to Picaddilly here

3- Get Polygon Amoy faucet here or any site here

4- You can add USDC token address in your metamask on picadilly testnet network to see your USDC amount 0x3a60C03a86eEAe30501ce1af04a6C04Cf0188700

5- Transfer USDC from Picadilly to CAX ( from Onchain to Offchain)

# Just Replace AMOUNT
aut token transfer --token 0x3a60C03a86eEAe30501ce1af04a6C04Cf0188700 0x11F62c273dD23dbe4D1713C5629fc35713Aa5a94 AMOUNT | aut tx sign - | aut tx send -

10- CAX Commands

# Replace API_KEY with your api in step: 9.2
KEY=API_KEY

# View off-chain CAX balance
https --verify=no GET https://cax.piccadilly.autonity.org/api/balances/ API-Key:$KEY

# View orderbooks
https --verify=no GET https://cax.piccadilly.autonity.org/api/orderbooks/ API-Key:$KEY

# Getting current price of NTN-USD
https --verify=no GET https://cax.piccadilly.autonity.org/api/orderbooks/NTN-USDC/quote API-Key:$KEY

# Getting current price of ATN-USD
https --verify=no GET https://cax.piccadilly.autonity.org/api/orderbooks/ATN-USDC/quote API-Key:$KEY

# Buy NTN with limit-order (Replace x with the price of your favor and y with the amount if NTN you want to bid or ask)
https --verify=no POST https://cax.piccadilly.autonity.org/api/orders/ API-Key:$KEY pair=NTN-USDC side=bid price=x amount=y

# view order status (you need the "order_id" number, which you will receive in response to the previous request)
https --verify=no GET https://cax.piccadilly.autonity.org/api/orders/order_id API-Key:$KEY

# Cancel open order
https --verify=no DELETE https://cax.piccadilly.autonity.org/api/orders/313469 API-Key:$KEY

# Send X amount of NTN from off-chain CAX to tresurekey wallet
https --verify=no POST https://cax.piccadilly.autonity.org/api/withdraws/ API-Key:$KEY symbol=NTN amount=X

NTN Balance in your tresure wallet

aut account info

10. You can now bond NTN to your validator again with step 7 command, but increase the amount from 1

** Thanks lesnik13utsa & zuka_116 for their detailed guide **

Follow 0xMoei For more info

0xmusah/autonity-validator

Autonity Incentivized Validator (Phase/Game R6)

We’ll cover in this tutorial:

Useful links

Validator Installation

1- Install Dependecies

1.1- Install libraries

1.2- Install Golang

1.3- Install ethkey (to pull-out private key from seed files)

2. Install Autonity Utility (Aut)

2.1 install Python3

2.2 Install Aut

2.2 Edit .autrc file

3. Install Autonity RPC Node

3.1 Open ports

3.2 Install Autonity

3.3 Create Keys

3.4 Generate nodekey

3.5 Create a separate directory for tresure.key and oracle.key

3.6 Create an oracle wallet and save the created file

3.7 Create a tresure wallet and save the created file

3.8 Add tresurekey to .autrc file

3.9 Create your Node service file

3.10 Run your Autonity RPC Node

4- FORM 1 - REGISTRATION

5- Install Oracle

5.1 Install

5.2 Edit Plugin-conf.yml

Websites:

5.3 Fund oracle.key

Add Piccadilly Network to Metamask

5.4 Create service Oracle Node service file

5.4 Run Oracle

6. Register Validator

6.1 Create proof of node ownership

6.2 Get your enode

6.3 Get your Validator address

6.4 Get the consensus public key

6.5 Send Validator Registration Transaction

6.6 Find your validator address in the validators list

6.7 Check validator info

7. Bond NTN stake to your Validator

8. Form 2 - Validator Registeration

8.1 Get private key of nodekey

8.2 Enter your Private key in the file

8.3 Add nodekey file to our account lists

8.4 Sign ”Validator Onboarded” message with our nodekey

CAUTIOS

9. Buy NTN in CAX

9.1 Install httpie

9.2 Get API KEY

9.3 Get USDC on your CAX offchain account

10- CAX Commands

NTN Balance in your tresure wallet

10. You can now bond NTN to your validator again with step 7 command, but increase the amount from 1