Minimum hardware requirements:
1) Auto_install script
wget -O altheam https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Althea/altheam && chmod +x altheam && ./altheam
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 26.04.24
cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/AltheaFoundation/althea-L1/
cd $HOME/althea-L1 && git pull
git checkout v1.4.0
make install
althea version --long | head
commit: 8bf067c7cfb6105f7a14e0c4e0361cff27e6b495
Initiation
althea init STAVR_guide --chain-id=althea_258432-1
althea config chain-id althea_258432-1
Create/recover wallet
althea keys add <walletname>
OR
althea keys add <walletname> --recover
Download Genesis
wget -O $HOME/.althea/config/genesis.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AltheaFoundation/althea-L1-docs/main/althea-l1-mainnet-genesis.json"
sha256sum $HOME/.althea/config/genesis.json
cfe4c408e759bdc64fb2c12db653ce385dbbbf73d593d5eb4ba6cd1f9a67c15f
Set up the minimum gas price and Peers/Seeds/Filter peers/MaxPeers
sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0aalthea\"/;" ~/.althea/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
peers="4d9c73a9e541453b56add8fadf0839fd1442d979@15.235.115.155:17200,a0eca501485cc74e0568973ef502d05023f6500d@158.247.226.255:17200,ab9a9e6ea747839652dfe4480e66a5eb78a385e8@51.81.167.60:17200,46ad21a616527181ea3d992339268a5a25c771fa@95.216.38.96:14656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
Pruning (optional)
pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/app.toml
Indexer (optional)
indexer="null" &&
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
Download addrbook
wget -O $HOME/.althea/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Althea/addrbook.json"
Create a service file
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/althea.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=althea
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which althea) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
StateSync Althea Mainnet
SNAP_RPC=https://althea.rpc.m.stavr.tech:443
peers="063fec5334040572f55b06f9ff6284d0f2f01ced@althea.peers.stavr.tech:17886"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s $SNAP_RPC/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height); \
BLOCK_HEIGHT=$((LATEST_HEIGHT - 1000)); \
TRUST_HASH=$(curl -s "$SNAP_RPC/block?height=$BLOCK_HEIGHT" | jq -r .result.block_id.hash)
echo $LATEST_HEIGHT $BLOCK_HEIGHT $TRUST_HASH
sed -i.bak -E "s|^(enable[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1true| ; \
s|^(rpc_servers[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$SNAP_RPC,$SNAP_RPC\"| ; \
s|^(trust_height[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1$BLOCK_HEIGHT| ; \
s|^(trust_hash[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$TRUST_HASH\"| ; \
s|^(seeds[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"\"|" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
althea tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.althea
systemctl restart althea && journalctl -u althea -f -o cat
SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours
cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop althea
cp $HOME/.althea/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.althea/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.althea/data
curl -o - -L https://althea.snapshot.stavr.tech/althea-snap.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.althea --strip-components 2
mv $HOME/.althea/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.althea/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.althea/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Althea/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart althea && journalctl -u althea -f -o cat
Start
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable althea
sudo systemctl restart althea && sudo journalctl -fu althea -o cat
Create validator
althea tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 1 \
--commission-max-change-rate 1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 1000000000000000000aalthea \
--pubkey $(althea tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id althea_258432-1 \
--gas 300000 \
--fees 30000000000000000aalthea \
--identity="" \
--website="" \
--details="" -y
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 althea
sudo systemctl disable althea
rm /etc/systemd/system/althea.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf althea-chain
rm -rf .althea
rm -rf $(which althea)
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