💾Node Installation

Carbon Mainnet guide

EXPLORER

• Approximate hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Mainnet	8	16GB	250GB

1) Auto_install script

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

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 11.09.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget https://github.com/Switcheo/carbon-bootstrap/releases/download/v2.50.0/carbond2.50.0-mainnet.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf carbond2.50.0-mainnet.linux-amd64.tar.gz
rm -rf carbond2.50.0-mainnet.linux-amd64.tar.gz
chmod +x carbond
mv carbond $HOPME/go/bin/

carbond version --long | grep -e commit -e version

• version: 2.50.0

• commit: 3930d72244b56a99ecec6cb60859ec49fc5893fa

Initiation

carbond init STAVR_guide --chain-id=carbon-1
carbond config chain-id carbon-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

wget -O genesis.json https://snapshots.polkachu.com/genesis/carbon/genesis.json --inet4-only
mv genesis.json ~/.carbon/config

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

• 56943557fcd962364fd35f1f19900146975b9b86d269a3ed2c01a89e5c199705

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.1swth\"/;" ~/.carbon/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.carbon/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.carbon/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.carbon/config/config.toml
seeds="[e-mail]:19656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.carbon/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.carbon/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 10/g' $HOME/.carbon/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\"/" $HOME/.carbon/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.carbon/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.carbon/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.carbon/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Carbon Mainnet (⚠️Temporarily stopped⚠️)

SNAP_RPC=https://carbon.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/.carbon/config/config.toml
carbond tendermint unsafe-reset-all
wget -O $HOME/.carbon/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Carbon/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart carbond && sudo journalctl -u carbond -f -o cat

SnapShot Mainnet - every 5 hours (⚠️Temporarily stopped⚠️)

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop carbond
cp $HOME/.carbon/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.carbon/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.carbon/data
curl -o - -L https://carbon.snapshot.stavr.tech/carbon-snap.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.carbon --strip-components 2
mv $HOME/.carbon/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.carbon/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.carbon/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Carbon/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart carbond && journalctl -u carbond -f -o cat

Start

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

Create validator

carbond tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 1 \
--commission-max-change-rate 1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 100000000swth \
--pubkey $(carbond tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id carbon-1 \
--gas 900000 \
--fees 100000000swth \
--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 carbond
sudo systemctl disable carbond
rm /etc/systemd/system/carbond.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf carbon-bootstrap
rm -rf .carbon
rm -rf $(which carbond)