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  • 🦔 INTRODUCTION
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • Onboarding FAQs
  • 🏘️ INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS
    • Hardware Requirements
    • Required Node Configs
    • How to set up a full node
    • Running a Full Node
    • Running a Validator
    • Snapshots
    • Full Node Streaming
      • Types of Upgrades
      • Performing Upgrades
      • Cosmovisor
      • Using Cosmovisor to stage dYdX Chain binary upgrade
      • Upgrading Sidecar
    • Network Constants
    • Resources
    • Faucet Funds (Testnet Only)
    • Software Checklist
    • Indexer Usage Estimates
  • 🔗 API INTEGRATION
    • Indexer Client
    • Socket Client
    • Validator Client
    • Composite Client
    • Indexer API
    • Indexer Websocket
  • Repositories
    • Rate Limits
    • Other Limits
    • Order Types
    • Short-term vs Stateful
    • Isolated Markets
    • CLI Commands
    • How to Send Usdc from Ethereum to Dydx
    • Rate Limits and Gating
  • Constants
    • How to uncross the orderbook
    • How to interpret block data for trades
    • Setting up Raspberry Pi for API Trading
    • CLI Python Script
    • How to Transfer
  • 👥 USERS
    • Overview
    • Staking Rewards
    • Trading Rewards
    • Proposing a New Market
    • Slashing a Validator
    • Functionalities
    • Submitting a Proposal
    • Voting
    • How to Troubleshoot Withdrawals and Deposits
  • FAQs
  • 🤔 CONCEPTS
    • Architectural Overview
    • Indexer
    • Margin
    • Rewards Fees and Parameters
  • 💬 OTHER
  • Security
  • Terms & Policies
    • Depositing and User Journeys
  • 🦔 INTRODUCTION
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • Onboarding FAQs
  • 🏘️ INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS
    • Hardware Requirements
    • Required Node Configs
    • How to set up a full node
    • Running a Full Node
    • Running a Validator
    • Snapshots
    • Full Node Streaming
      • Types of Upgrades
      • Performing Upgrades
      • Cosmovisor
      • Using Cosmovisor to stage dYdX Chain binary upgrade
      • Upgrading Sidecar
    • Network Constants
    • Resources
    • Faucet Funds (Testnet Only)
    • Software Checklist
    • Indexer Usage Estimates
  • 🔗 API INTEGRATION
    • Indexer Client
    • Socket Client
    • Validator Client
    • Composite Client
    • Indexer API
    • Indexer Websocket
  • Repositories
    • Rate Limits
    • Other Limits
    • Order Types
    • Short-term vs Stateful
    • Isolated Markets
    • CLI Commands
    • How to Send Usdc from Ethereum to Dydx
    • Rate Limits and Gating
  • Constants
    • How to uncross the orderbook
    • How to interpret block data for trades
    • Setting up Raspberry Pi for API Trading
    • CLI Python Script
    • How to Transfer
  • 👥 USERS
    • Overview
    • Staking Rewards
    • Trading Rewards
    • Proposing a New Market
    • Slashing a Validator
    • Functionalities
    • Submitting a Proposal
    • Voting
    • How to Troubleshoot Withdrawals and Deposits
  • FAQs
  • 🤔 CONCEPTS
    • Architectural Overview
    • Indexer
    • Margin
    • Rewards Fees and Parameters
  • 💬 OTHER
  • Security
  • Terms & Policies
    • Depositing and User Journeys
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  • V3 Docs ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Validators & Full-Nodes
Upgrades
Upgrading Sidecar

Starting in v5.0.0, all validating full nodes should be running the Sidecar. Non validating full nodes do not need to run the sidecar.

Follow instructions here (opens in a new tab) to upgrade the sidecar.

Using Cosmovisor to stage dYdX Chain binary upgradeNetwork Constants
Disclaimer: Note that as of the date hereof, the testnet and dYdX Chain deployment by DYDX token holders are the only known deployments of the dYdX v4 software, and other deployment options may be added. For more information, please see https://dydx.exchange/dydx-chain-front-end-options