From 4c422fe909a396075c021ce035b20cb799713e1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug Lance <4741454+douglance@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 15:15:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore: update readme to add `.env` step

---
 README.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 45d750fd..f6e57024 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ Make sure you are using Node.js v18 or greater.
 yarn add @arbitrum/orbit-sdk viem@^1.20.0
 ```
 
+## Environment Setup
+
+Copy the example environment file to a new `.env` file:
+
+```bash
+cp .env.example .env
+```
+
 ## Run integration tests
 
 Clone the branch `main` of [nitro-testnode](https://github.com/OffchainLabs/nitro-testnode), and run the testnode using the following arguments:

From 3ada91280b61a2b5283a3002d0531a046850eb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug Lance <4741454+douglance@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 15:17:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] update the testnode branch

---
 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f6e57024..2c57ae42 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ cp .env.example .env
 
 ## Run integration tests
 
-Clone the branch `main` of [nitro-testnode](https://github.com/OffchainLabs/nitro-testnode), and run the testnode using the following arguments:
+Clone the `release` branch of [nitro-testnode](https://github.com/OffchainLabs/nitro-testnode), and run the testnode using the following arguments:
 
 ```bash
 ./test-node.bash --init --tokenbridge --l3node --l3-fee-token --l3-token-bridge