Persistence v6.0.0 Upgrade

This upgrade will untombstone and unslash validators which were tombstoned on the v5 upgrade process and fix pSTAKE c-value.

This guide assumes that you use cosmovisor to manage upgrades. If you do not use cosmovisor, please adjust some commands accordingly.

The upgrade is scheduled for Block 9601000. It is estimated to take place 2 years ago. A countdown clock is here. The governance proposal is here.

Install New Binary

cd persistence
git pull
git checkout v6.0.0
make install

Check Version

# should be v6.0.0
persistenceCore version

# Should be commit 372bbedec6687265856c125f00cfc0bba6444a3c
persistenceCore version --long | grep commit

Make Cosmovisor Directory and Copy Binary

mkdir -p $HOME/.persistenceCore/cosmovisor/upgrades/v6/bin
cp $HOME/go/bin/persistenceCore $HOME/.persistenceCore/cosmovisor/upgrades/v6/bin

Check Version Again

# should be v6.0.0
$HOME/.persistenceCore/cosmovisor/upgrades/v6/bin/persistenceCore version