💾Node Installation

Bitway Mainnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Mainnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Auto_install script

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

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

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$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
go version

Build 25.09.25

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/bitwaylabs/bitway.git
cd bitway
git checkout v2.0.1
make install

bitwayd version --long | grep -e version -e commit

• version: 2.0.1

• commit: 07f2bb1d0c6a8a2de3e89730cf60a8ba4b381fa8

Initiation

bitwayd init STAVR_guide --chain-id=bitway-1
bitwayd config chain-id bitway-1

Create/recover wallet

bitwayd keys add <walletname> --key-type="segwit"
           OR
bitwayd keys add <walletname> --key-type="segwit" --recover

Download Addrbook and Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.bitway/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitway/addrbook.json"
wget -O $HOME/.bitway/config/genesis.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitway/genesis.json"

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

• 2fc783fd26301f6c127514ab4e91e25105a98d6725f9122accaf42962b705359

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0006ubtw,0.000001sat\"/;" ~/.bitway/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.bitway/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.bitway/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.bitway/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.bitway/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.bitway/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\"/" $HOME/.bitway/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.bitway/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.bitway/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.bitway/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Bitway Mainnet

systemctl stop bitwayd
SNAP_RPC=https://bitway.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/.bitway/config/config.toml
bitwayd tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.bitway
wget -O $HOME/.bitway/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitway/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart bitwayd && journalctl -fu bitwayd -n100 -o cat

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitway/

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop bitwayd
cp $HOME/.bitway/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.bitway/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.bitway/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitway/ | grep -oE 'bitway-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitway/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitway/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.bitway
mv $HOME/.bitway/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.bitway/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.bitway/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Bitway/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart bitwayd && sudo journalctl -fu bitwayd -n100 -ocat

Start

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable bitwayd
sudo systemctl restart bitwayd && sudo journalctl -fu bitwayd -n100 -ocat

Create validator

#pubkey
bitwayd tendermint show-validator --home /root/.bitway
cd $HOME
nano $HOME/.bitway/validator.json
{
  "pubkey": {"#pubkey"},
  "amount": "1000000ubtw",
  "moniker": "STAVR_guide",
  "identity": "",
  "website": "",
  "security": "",
  "details": "",
  "commission-rate": "0.05",
  "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
  "commission-max-change-rate": "0.2",
  "min-self-delegation": "1"
}
bitwayd --home $HOME/.bitway tx staking create-validator $HOME/.bitway/validator.json --from WalletName  --chain-id bitway-1 -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 bitwayd
sudo systemctl disable bitwayd
rm /etc/systemd/system/bitwayd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf bitway
rm -rf .bitway
rm -rf $(which bitwayd)