Installation

Manual Installation

Official DocumentationRecommended Hardware: 4 Cores, 8GB RAM, 200GB of storage (NVME)

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl git wget htop tmux build-essential jq make lz4 gcc unzip -y

install go, if needed

cd $HOME
VER="1.23.1"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$VER.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "go$VER.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
rm "go$VER.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
[ ! -f ~/.bash_profile ] && touch ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:~/go/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
[ ! -d ~/go/bin ] && mkdir -p ~/go/bin

set vars

echo "export WALLET="wallet"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo "export MONIKER="your_node_Name"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo "export WARDEN_CHAIN_ID="chiado_10010-1"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo "export WARDEN_PORT="18"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

download binary

cd $HOME
rm -rf bin
mkdir bin && cd bin
wget -O wardend https://github.com/warden-protocol/wardenprotocol/releases/download/v0.6.3/wardend-0.6.3-linux-amd64
chmod +x wardend
mv $HOME/bin/wardend $HOME/go/bin

config and init app

wardend init $MONIKER
sed -i -e "s|^node *=.*|node = \"tcp://localhost:${WARDEN_PORT}657\"|" $HOME/.warden/config/client.toml

download genesis and addrbook

wget -O $HOME/.warden/config/genesis.json https://server-2.itrocket.net/testnet/warden/genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.warden/config/addrbook.json  https://server-2.itrocket.net/testnet/warden/addrbook.json

set seeds and peers

SEEDS="[e-mail]:18656"
PEERS="[e-mail]:18656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:29479,[email protected]:27356,[email protected]:20145,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:11956,[email protected]:19656,[email protected]:39656,[email protected]:27356,[email protected]:27356,[email protected]:16656,[email protected]:18656,[email protected]:11956,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:30656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:11956,[email protected]:27656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656"
sed -i -e "/^\[p2p\]/,/^\[/{s/^[[:space:]]*seeds *=.*/seeds = \"$SEEDS\"/}" \
       -e "/^\[p2p\]/,/^\[/{s/^[[:space:]]*persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"/}" $HOME/.warden/config/config.toml

set custom ports in app.toml

sed -i.bak -e "s%:1317%:${WARDEN_PORT}317%g;
s%:8080%:${WARDEN_PORT}080%g;
s%:9090%:${WARDEN_PORT}090%g;
s%:9091%:${WARDEN_PORT}091%g;
s%:8545%:${WARDEN_PORT}545%g;
s%:8546%:${WARDEN_PORT}546%g;
s%:6065%:${WARDEN_PORT}065%g" $HOME/.warden/config/app.toml

set custom ports in config.toml file

sed -i.bak -e "s%:26658%:${WARDEN_PORT}658%g;
s%:26657%:${WARDEN_PORT}657%g;
s%:6060%:${WARDEN_PORT}060%g;
s%:26656%:${WARDEN_PORT}656%g;
s%^external_address = \"\"%external_address = \"$(wget -qO- eth0.me):${WARDEN_PORT}656\"%;
s%:26660%:${WARDEN_PORT}660%g" $HOME/.warden/config/config.toml

config pruning

sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"custom\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/app.toml 
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"100\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"19\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/app.toml

set minimum gas price, enable prometheus and disable indexing

sed -i 's|minimum-gas-prices =.*|minimum-gas-prices = "25000000award"|g' $HOME/.warden/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/prometheus = false/prometheus = true/" $HOME/.warden/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"null\"/" $HOME/.warden/config/config.toml

create service file

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/wardend.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Warden node
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
WorkingDirectory=$HOME/.warden
ExecStart=$(which wardend) start --home $HOME/.warden
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

reset and download snapshot

wardend tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.warden
if curl -s --head curl https://server-2.itrocket.net/testnet/warden/warden_2025-07-22_4015609_snap.tar.lz4 | head -n 1 | grep "200" > /dev/null; then
  curl https://server-2.itrocket.net/testnet/warden/warden_2025-07-22_4015609_snap.tar.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.warden
    else
  echo "no snapshot found"
fi

enable and start service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable wardend
sudo systemctl restart wardend && sudo journalctl -u wardend -fo cat