Zahary Karadjov 7237a370ba Implement https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain/issues/872
Please see the newly added 'schlesi-dev' Makefile target.
It demonstrates how the log level can be specified for individual topics.

Additionally, when connecting to testnets like 'schlesi' there will be
two additional log files produced in the working directory:

* json-log.txt
* text-log.txt (in the textblocks format)
2020-04-28 13:49:30 +03:00
..
2019-11-07 17:23:06 +00:00
2020-02-11 18:43:57 +01:00
2020-04-20 19:27:52 +02:00

Work in progress. Things may and probably will break for the foreseeable future. Do not rely on this for anything.

Connecting to Testnet

To connect to a short-lived testnet we may or may not have running at the moment, use the connect_to_testnet script like so:

scripts/connect_to_testnet.sh testnet0

Running your own testnet

The beacon_node binary has a createTestnet command.

  nim c -r beacon_chain/beacon_node \
    --data-dir=$NETWORK_DIR/data \
    createTestnet \
    --validators-dir=$NETWORK_DIR \
    --total-validators=$VALIDATOR_COUNT \
    --last-user-validator=$LAST_USER_VALIDATOR \
    --output-genesis=$NETWORK_DIR/genesis.ssz \
    --output-bootstrap-file=$NETWORK_DIR/bootstrap_nodes.txt \
    --bootstrap-address=$PUBLIC_IP \
    --genesis-offset=600 # Delay in seconds

Replace ENV vars with values that make sense to you.

Full tutorial coming soon.

Maintaining the Status testnets

For detailed instructions, please see https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-private/blob/master/testnets-maintenance.md