💾Node Installation

Sao Mainnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Mainnet	8	16GB	250GB

1) Auto_install script

wget -O saom https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Sao/saom && chmod +x saom && ./saom

2) Manual installation

Preparing the server

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential bsdmainutils git make ncdu gcc git jq chrony liblz4-tool -y

GO 1.21.6

ver="1.21.6"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
rm "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
go version

Build 27.11.23

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/SaoNetwork/sao-consensus.git
cd sao-consensus
git checkout v0.1.9
make install

saod version --long | grep -e commit -e version

• version: 0.1.9

• commit: 79aed2f505b80bd37228ec458b97b055dcf37a5d

Initiation

saod init STAVR_guide --chain-id=sao-20230629
saod config chain-id sao-20230629

Create/recover wallet

saod keys add <walletname>
           OR
saod keys add <walletname> --recover

Download Genesis

wget -L -O $HOME/.sao/config/genesis.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Sao/genesis.json"

sha256sum $HOME/.sao/config/genesis.json

• 6fb4ae6e153970fed712ac3e0d893a8c3fafa0e5d6f5c0ac7bbab0d068dbbf4c

Set up the minimum gas price and Peers/Seeds/Filter peers/MaxPeers

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0usct\"/;" ~/.sao/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.sao/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.sao/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.sao/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.sao/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.sao/config/config.toml

Pruning (optional)

pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.sao/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.sao/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.sao/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.sao/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

indexer="null" &&
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.sao/config/config.toml

Download addrbook

wget -O $HOME/.sao/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Sao/addrbook.json"

Create a service file

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/saod.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=sao
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which saod) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Sao Mainnet

SOOON

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

SOOON

Start

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable saod
sudo systemctl restart saod && sudo journalctl -fu saod -o cat

Create validator

saod tx staking create-validator \
  --amount=1000000usct \
  --pubkey=$(saod tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker="STAVR_guide" \
  --details="" \
  --identity="" \
  --website="" \
  --chain-id="sao-20230629" \
  --commission-rate="0.10" \
  --commission-max-rate="0.1" \
  --commission-max-change-rate="0.1" \
  --min-self-delegation="1" \
  --from=wallet -y

🧩Services and Tools🧩

Monitoring

You can set up your node status alarm here - Monitoring

Security

You can create secure management of your wallet and your node by following this links.

TMKMS Wallet Security

Delete node

sudo systemctl stop saod
sudo systemctl disable saod
rm /etc/systemd/system/saod.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf sao-consensus
rm -rf .sao
rm -rf $(which saod)