💾Node Installation

Andromeda Mainnet guide

EXPLORER

Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type

CPU

RAM

Storage

Mainnet

16GB

250GB

1) Auto_install script

source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Andromeda/androm)

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 23.10.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/andromedaprotocol/andromedad.git
cd $HOME/andromedad
git checkout v2.0.0
make install

andromedad version --long | grep -e commit -e version

version: 2.0.0
commit: d4a545873e26f920f26e5ce54798f580e9846c9d

Initiation

andromedad init STAVR_guide --chain-id=andromeda-1
andromedad config chain-id andromeda-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

wget -L -O $HOME/.andromeda/config/genesis.json https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Andromeda/genesis.json

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

d97f3bfb82c8d1de377262dc29d802566e9f3740f1f49c51f43172cb3c22ebdb

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

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

Pruning (optional)

pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="100"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.andromeda/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.andromeda/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.andromeda/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.andromeda/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

wget -O $HOME/.andromeda/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Andromeda/addrbook.json"

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Andromeda Mainnet

systemctl stop andromedad
SNAP_RPC=https://andro.rpc.m.stavr.tech:443
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/.andromeda/config/config.toml
andromedad tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.andromeda
wget -O $HOME/.andromeda/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Andromeda/addrbook.json"
curl -o - -L https://andro.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-andromeda.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.andromeda
sudo systemctl restart andromedad && journalctl -fu andromedad -o cat

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

You can check the size and time of snapshot creation with this command curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Andromeda/andro-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep "last" && curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Andromeda/andro-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep content-length | awk '{printf "%.2f GB\n", $2/1024/1024/1024}'

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop andromedad
cp $HOME/.andromeda/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.andromeda/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.andromeda/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Andromeda/ | grep -oE 'andro-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Andromeda/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Andromeda/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.andromeda
mv $HOME/.andromeda/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.andromeda/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.andromeda/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Andromeda/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart andromedad && journalctl -fu andromedad -o cat

Start

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

Create validator

andromedad tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 1000000uandr \
--pubkey $(andromedad tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id andromeda-1 \
--gas 350000 \
--identity="" \
--website="" \
--details="" -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 andromedad
sudo systemctl disable andromedad
rm /etc/systemd/system/andromedad.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf andromedad
rm -rf .andromeda
rm -rf $(which andromedad)

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