💾Node Installation

Selfchain Testnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Auto_install script

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

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 01.04.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget https://ss-t.selfchain.nodestake.org/selfchaind
chmod +x selfchaind
mv selfchaind /root/go/bin

selfchaind version --long | grep -e commit -e version

• version: ""

• commit: ""

Initiation

selfchaind init STAVR_guide --chain-id=self-dev-1
selfchaind config chain-id self-dev-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

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

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

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0uself\"/;" ~/.selfchain/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.selfchain/config/config.toml
PEERS="$(curl -sS http://157.230.119.165:26657/net_info | jq -r '.result.peers[] | "\(.node_info.id)@\(.remote_ip):\(.node_info.listen_addr)"' | awk -F ':' '{print $1":"$(NF)}' | sed -z 's|\n|,|g;s|.$||')"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.selfchain/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.selfchain/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.selfchain/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.selfchain/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\"/" $HOME/.selfchain/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.selfchain/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.selfchain/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.selfchain/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Selfchain Testnet

SOOON

SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours

SOOON

Start

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

Create validator

selfchaind tx staking create-validator \
  --amount=1000000uself \
  --pubkey=$(selfchaind tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker="STAVR_Guide" \
  --details="" \
  --identity="" \
  --website="" \
  --chain-id="self-dev-1" \
  --commission-rate="0.10" \
  --commission-max-rate="0.10" \
  --commission-max-change-rate="0.1" \
  --min-self-delegation="1" \
  --from=Yourwallet -y

🧩Services and Tools🧩

Delete node

systemctl stop selfchaind
systemctl disable selfchaind
rm /etc/systemd/system/selfchaind.service
systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .selfchain
rm -rf $(which selfchaind)