Approximate hardware requirements:
1) Auto_install script
source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Bitsong/bitsongd)
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 1.23.1
cd $HOME
VER="1.23.1"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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"
[ ! -f ~/.bash_profile ] && touch ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:~/go/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
[ ! -d ~/go/bin ] && mkdir -p ~/go/bin
Build 28.02.25
cd $HOME && mkdir $HOME/go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/bitsongofficial/go-bitsong/
cd go-bitsong
git checkout v0.21.5
make install
bitsongd version --long | grep -e version -e commit
commit: d2bff90932d35159d0c7a6b9225ad8e862483a6e
Initiation
bitsongd init STAVR_guide --chain-id=bitsong-2b
bitsongd config chain-id bitsong-2b
Create/recover wallet
bitsongd keys add <walletname>
OR
bitsongd keys add <walletname> --recover
Download Genesis
wget -O $HOME/.bitsongd/config/genesis.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitsong/genesis.json"
sha256sum $HOME/.bitsongd/config/genesis.json
53d3a4c628627bdc5d6c9d1016f973dfb3e0e93599be787d1759f4591d0129ac
Set up the minimum gas price and Peers/Seeds/Filter peers/MaxPeers
sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.01ubtsg\"/;" ~/.bitsongd/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.bitsongd/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.bitsongd/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.bitsongd/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.bitsongd/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.bitsongd/config/config.toml
Pruning (optional)
pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.bitsongd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.bitsongd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.bitsongd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.bitsongd/config/app.toml
Indexer (optional)
indexer="null" &&
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.bitsongd/config/config.toml
Download addrbook
wget -O $HOME/.bitsongd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitsong/addrbook.json"
Create a service file
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/bitsongd.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=bitsong
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which bitsongd) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
StateSync Bitsong Mainnet
systemctl stop bitsongd
SNAP_RPC=https://bitsong.rpc.m.stavr.tech:443
cp $HOME/.bitsongd/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.bitsongd/priv_validator_state.json.backup
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(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/.bitsongd/config/config.toml
bitsongd tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.bitsongd
mv $HOME/.bitsongd/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.bitsongd/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.bitsongd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitsong/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart bitsongd && sudo journalctl -fu bitsongd -o cat
SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours
cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop bitsongd
cp $HOME/.bitsongd/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.bitsongd/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.bitsongd/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitsong/ | grep -oE 'bitsong-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitsong/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitsong/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.bitsongd
mv $HOME/.bitsongd/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.bitsongd/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.bitsongd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitsong/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart bitsongd && journalctl -fu bitsongd -o cat
Start
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable bitsongd
sudo systemctl restart bitsongd && sudo journalctl -fu bitsongd -o cat
Create validator
bitsongd tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000ubtsg \
--from <walletName> \
--commission-max-change-rate "0.1" \
--commission-max-rate "0.2" \
--commission-rate "0.1" \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--details="" \
--identity="" \
--pubkey $(bitsongd tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "STAVR_Guide" \
--fees 2000ubtsg \
--chain-id bitsong-2b -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 bitsongd
sudo systemctl disable bitsongd
rm /etc/systemd/system/bitsongd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .bitsongd
rm -rf go-bitsong
rm -rf $(which bitsongd)
