✳️Bridge Node

Installation Mainnet

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• Hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Bridge node	6	16GB	10TB

1) Auto_install script

source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Celestia/Mainnet/Bridge/bridgem)

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 28.11.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node.git
cd celestia-node/
git checkout tags/v0.20.4
make build 
sudo make install 
make cel-key
mv $HOME/celestia-node/cel-key /usr/local/bin/

celestia version

• version: v0.20.4

• commit: 51b79431533576a5cddf1235bdf3751e4c014212

Create/recover wallet

cel-key add bridge-wallet --keyring-backend test --node.type bridge
           OR
cel-key add bridge-wallet --keyring-backend test --node.type bridge  --recover

Initiation

#--core.ip - IP address RPC Node
#--p2p.network - chain id (celestia)
#--core.rpc.port - RPC port from our RPC node
#--core.grpc.port - gRPC port from our RPC node
#--keyring.keyname -  our Wallet Name
celestia bridge init --core.ip <RPC_NODE_IP> --core.rpc.port 26657 --core.grpc.port 9090 --keyring.keyname bridge-wallet

Create a service file

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

[Service]
User=$USER
Environment=GODEBUG="asynctimerchan=1"
ExecStart=$(which celestia) bridge start \
--metrics.tls=true --metrics --metrics.endpoint otel.celestia.observer \
--keyring.keyname bridge-wallet
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

SnapShot Bridge Mainnet | Archive - updated every 24h

You can check the size and time of snapshot creation with this command SOOON

SOOON

Useful Tools

Start

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable celestia-bridge
systemctl restart celestia-bridge && journalctl -fu celestia-bridge -ocat

🧩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

systemctl stop celestia-bridge
systemctl disable celestia-bridge
rm /etc/systemd/system/celestia-bridge.service
systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .celestia-bridge
rm -rf celestia-node
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/cel-key
rm -rf $(which celestia)