ChungKing Upgrade

ChungKing is the fourth major upgrade to the LikeCoin chain

Please join the #mainnet-validators channel.

Changelog

• Upgrade go lang to 1.19.5

• Upgrade cosmos-sdk to 0.46.12

• Upgrade ibc-go to 5.3.1

• Remove x/nft backport

• Add full_pay_to_royalty flag to sell NFT event

• Add deterministic ISCN ID when creating ISCN

• Add custom authz message in iscn and likenft module

• Add feegrant in iscn and likenft module messages

SDK Upgrade

We will be upgrading to cosmos-sdk 0.46, which contains x/nft(which we already back-ported to sdk 0.45 in last version) and x/group module. Also ledger support for authz module is re-introduced. We will be also upgrading to ibc-go 5.3.1, which is the supported version containing security fix for Huckleberry.

Fee grant and authz support

We have implement feegrant and authz support for iscn and x/likenft module, enabling better onboard and minting UX for users and more possibility for dApp use cases.

Miscellaneous update

A new flag full_pay_to_royalty is added to NFT sale related events, which allow seller to optionally send all revenue to stakeholders listed in the NFT's royalty config.

ISCN ID can be now calculated deterministically, which allow messages that required ISCN ID as parameter to be batched together with ISCN creation message in one transaction .

Timeline

Event	Time
Testnet Proposal	18th May 2023
Testnet Deploy	19th May 2023
Mainnet Proposal	W4 May 2023
Mainnet Deploy	W2 June 2023

Chain Upgrades List

Upgrade Name	Binary Version	Binary Path
FoTan	v1.2.0	.liked/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/liked
LaiChiKok	v2.0.2	.liked/cosmovisor/upgrades/v2.0.0/bin/liked
StarFerry	v3.0.0	.liked/cosmovisor/upgrades/v3.0.0/bin/liked
ChungKing	v4.0.0	.liked/cosmovisor/upgrades/v4.0.0/bin/liked

System Requirements During Upgrade

The system resources required during the upgrade might be higher than normal operation for data migration tasks. In particular, large amount of memory will be used, and data files will be duplicated for backup. Any machine with less than recommended specification might result in OOM (out of memory) error thus data corruption. Also note that using swap might lengthen the upgrade duration considerably.

Since there is no store migration for this upgrade, we do not expect memory usage to be huge except for data back up.

After the upgrade is applied, the day-to-day resources requirement is same as previously suggested in our Node Setup Guide.

Recommended

• 4 CPU Cores

• 32GB RAM + 16GB Swap

• 500GB+ SSD

Minimum

• 2 CPU Cores

• 16GB RAM + 16GB Swap

• 500GB+ SSD

Refer to this third party guide for steps to add swap space.

Using RAM lower than required will likely result a OOM and corruption of data.

Operators who could not arrange a capable machine might opt to temporarily stop validating until the network has upgraded, then catch up to trusted nodes using state sync.

Workflow

1. v4.0.0 is tagged on repo and binary builds are released on github via CI

2. Upgrade proposal is raised on-chain, which specifies the following parameters:

   • Upgrade Name: v4.0.0

   • Upgrade Height: 9419200

   • Upgrade Info:

     {
       "binaries": {
         "linux/amd64": "https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz",
         "linux/arm64": "https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz",
         "darwin/amd64": "https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz",
         "darwin/arm64": "https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz",
         "windows/amd64": "https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Windows_x86_64.zip"
       }
     }

3. After the proposal is approved, operators should place the v4.0.0 binary at the Cosmovisor upgrades folder BEFORE the upgrade time. Alternatively, operators can configure cosmovisor to download binaries automatically.

4. Cosmovisor will automatically switch binaries at the scheduled block height. Operators will not be required to run migrations or restart chain manually. However, operators are recommended to be present during the upgrade time in case of any unforeseen issues.

Instructions for Validator Operators

Migrate to Cosmovisor

To support the automatic upgrade, operators should migrate to host their node with Cosmovisor beforehand, which is supported since v1.2.0. A setup guide with migration instructions is available here.

Operators can also test their setup and practice the migration flow on testnet before the actual upgrade.

Upgrading without Cosmovisor

Although not recommended, it is possible for operators to opt out of using Cosmovisor.

At the upgrade height, the old chain binary will halt with upgrade needed panic. Afterwards, operators shall backup their .liked folder, then start their node using the new version binary.

Prepare the next binary ahead of upgrade height

Once the proposal is approved on-chain, operators should either download or build the next binary version, and place it within the Cosmovisor upgrades folder.

The path to the new binary should be:

.liked/cosmovisor/upgrades/v4.0.0/bin/liked

Alternatively, operators can enable the auto-download feature of Cosmovisor by setting environment variable DAEMON_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD_BINARIES to true, which is the default if our setup script or docker image was used. To be safe, we recommend you do prepare the binary manually.

Backups

Cosmovisor will backup the .liked/data folder to .liked/data-backup-<date> after the chain has halted at upgrade height and before the new binary has started.

Contingency Steps to Skip or Rollback Upgrades

Below are steps to skip the upgrade forcefully. This workflow can be used under the following circumstances:

• A critical bug is found shortly before upgrade height, thus there is no time to cancel the upgrade on-chain via CancelSoftwareUpgrade proposal

• The upgrade failed on mainnet and the community reached consensus to rollback the chain to the state before the upgrade height

To skip an upgrade on short notice, operators shall append --unsafe-skip-upgrades <upgrade height> to their cosmovisor launch argument.

Set launch argument for systemd

1. Stop the node by sudo systemctl stop liked

2. Edit /etc/systemd/system/liked.service

3. Locate line beginning with ExecStart=, append --unsafe-skip-upgrades <upgrade height> to the end

4. Save the file

5. (For rollback, restore .liked folder with additional steps in the next section)

6. Run sudo systemctl daemon-reload, then sudo systemctl restart liked

Restore .liked folder to rollback upgrade

This is in addition to adding the skip upgrade flag step above.

Point the current binary symlink to the previous version (v3.0.0 for this upgrade):

 cd ~/.liked/cosmovisor
 rm current
 ln -s $(pwd)/v3.0.0 current
 rm -r upgrades/v4.0.0
 rm ~/.liked/data/upgrade-info.json

If the community decided to rollback after blocks were produced post-upgrade, we will need to restore the data folder from backup:

cd ~/.liked
mv data data-backup-failed-upgrade
cp -r data-backup-<date> data
rm ~/.liked/data/upgrade-info.json

Instructions for Upgrade Proposer

CI/CD Release

Once a release candidate is validated on devnet / testnet, please tag the commit with version v4.0.0. CI will test and build with the tagged commit, then release it on GitHub.

Please also push commits to release/v4.x and update branch names in node setup guides.

Submit Proposal

The proposer should submit a proposal with below command:

 ./liked tx gov submit-proposal software-upgrade "v4.0.0" \
 --title "Upgrade LikeCoin chain mainnet to v4.0.0" \
 --description "This proposal is for upgrading the LikeCoin chain mainnet software from v3.0.0 to v4.0.0. Full proposal: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/..." \
 --from $ACCOUNT \
 --upgrade-height $UPGRADE_HEIGHT \
 --upgrade-info '{"binaries":{"linux/amd64":"https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz?checksum=sha256:79c2307d2550c618092b71877f0b9c6fee6effa5976f436f0cd77c8a1d9f8738","linux/arm64":"https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz?checksum=sha256:239586638ba9d355ab5e319c3956eefcbab0cbfadf275e137247df474b38d085","darwin/amd64":"https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz?checksum=sha256:617d42523f98ec4c9bb9ed8fc379e77df1af3da9c5162ce790369660e4e851eb","darwin/arm64":"https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz?checksum=sha256:589855fbd362317b3df37b5aa2d4c1982e8e9a72f356d0126aa391364cc1355b","windows/amd64":"https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-chain/releases/download/v4.0.0/likecoin-chain_4.0.0_Windows_x86_64.zip?checksum=sha256:90c09546596378bbf11ffcee09b6c8c7fc047d173316337068ca3859edcfd619"}}' \
 --deposit 10000000nanolike \
 --chain-id "likecoin-mainnet-2"

The proposal content, especially upgrade-info should be validated on testnet beforehand.

Please also refer to the technical documentation on upgrade proposal usage here.