Stakewars warchest bot

The warchest is a Python script for monitoring and adapting your stake to make sure you keep exactly one validator seat

Requirements

This bot requires:

• near-shell to be installed - If you haven't done it run npm install -g near-shell or check here
• python 3.6+ installed - to check run whereis python3
• near-shell needs to be logged in

(It's the easiest to run this bot as service on your machine that also runs the validator node)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/eorituz/near_warchest.git

Usage

1. First, adapt the const.py file with your credentials and your preferred strategy.

2. Make the bot run as a service

   1. nano /etc/systemd/system/warchest_bot.service
   2. Paste

   [Unit]
   Description=Warchest bot managing near stake
   After=network.target
   StartLimitIntervalSec=0
   
   [Service]
   Type=simple
   Restart=always
   RestartSec=1
   User=root
   ExecStart=/PATH/TO/python3.6 /PATH/TO/near_warchest/warchest.py
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   

   3. To figure out the path to you python executable run whereis python
   4. Run sudo systemctl start warchest_bot
   5. Check the logs if it worked sudo journalctl -u warchest_bot.service -f They should look something like this

   Jun 30 15:33:21 NearValidator systemd[1]: Started Warchest bot managing near stake.
   Jun 30 15:33:22 NearValidator python3.6[3815]: ERROR:root:stakeing.arno_nym.betanet is currently not a validator
   Jun 30 15:33:24 NearValidator python3.6[3815]: INFO:root:The next slotprice will most likely be 109830000000000000000000000000
   Jun 30 15:33:25 NearValidator python3.6[3815]: INFO:root:stakeing.arno_nym.betanet has currently 141554000000000000000000000000 bid in auction
   

   6. Enable the service permanently by running systemctl start warchest_bot

3. Check if the bot worked by manually staking more ore less than the set threshold in the const.py file. Please wait for at least 10 minutes as the bot only runs once every 10 minutes atm. To see all of the bot's logs run sudo journalctl -u warchest_bot.service -b

Notes

Unfortunately, the bot is quite primitive atm. Feel free to have a look at the code (it's not that complicated) and adapt/improve. The major issues atm are:

• If the bot crashes there won't be any notification except for the logs
• Currently, the bot gets its information by calling near-shell this could lead to issues in the future. Migrating to the JSON-RPC might be a better approach
• The bot runs every 10 minutes. However, it would be way better from a game-theoretical approach if the bot would run just before an epoch ends or if the monitoring you set up in Challange 003 reports something.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

MIT