Staging casper‐test 2.0.0 upgrade

These are instruction to stage 2.0.0 casper-node upgrade to casper-test (TestNet).

Activation point for this upgrade will be Era: 17220 which should be around:

UTC 2025-03-18 14:30
EST 2025-03-18 10:30
PST 2025-03-18 07:30
HK  2025-03-18 22:30
CET 2025-03-18 15:30

It is assumed that preliminary steps have already been completed

Install casper-sidecar and casper-client

casper-sidecar 1.0.3 will provide RPC services post upgrade casper-client 3.0.1 is compatible with casper-node 2.0.0

sudo apt update
sudo apt install casper-sidecar casper-client

Stage the casper-node 2.0.0

sudo -u casper /etc/casper/node_util.py stage_protocols casper-test.conf

After staging you can run /etc/casper/node_util.py watch and should see the upgrade line as:

Next Upgrade: {'activation_point': 17220, 'protocol_version': '2.0.0'}