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