Genesis / Network start flow

[Fraccaman]

We need to rework how genesis file are generated and shared. We also need to restructure how network are join.

The new flow should look like this:

• new repo namada-networks
• someone (one of us) uploads a json file (or some other file) with balances and associated addresses (ie genesis allocations)
• someone (one of us) uploads a json file with initial parameters
• a lot of people generate their validator.toml files based on whether they have balances in the genesis allocations from step 1
• those people upload their validator.toml file to GH as PRs
• we finalize the genesis file by combining all the individual validator.toml files and the initial balances (from step 1, 2 and 4) into a single genesis.json file
• optionally everyone individually can clone the repo and runs generate genesis which takes all the files from step 1, 2 and 4 and puts them into one genesis.json
  • and maybe it also outputs a config.toml file with ip addresses to connect too
  • it's important that all individual validator.toml files are in the repo as plain-text files
• everyone starts their node

A detail explanation can be found here.