# Validator Node

## [EXPLORER](https://explorer.stavr.tech/Celestia-Mainnet/staking)

* **Hardware requirements**:

| Node Type      | CPU | RAM  | Storage |
| -------------- | --- | ---- | ------- |
| Validator node | 8   | 16GB | 2TB     |

## 1) Auto\_install script

```bash
source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Celestia/Mainnet/Node/celesm)
```

## 2) Manual installation

#### Preparing the server

```bash
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

```bash
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 17.09.25

```bash
cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app.git 
cd celestia-app
git checkout v5.0.5
make install
```

`celestia-appd version --long | grep -e commit -e version`

* version: 5.0.5
* commit: bb1b85de

## Initiation

```python
celestia-appd init STAVR_guide --chain-id=celestia
celestia-appd config chain-id celestia
```

### Create/recover wallet

```bash
celestia-appd keys add <walletname>
           OR
celestia-appd keys add <walletname> --recover
```

### Download Genesis and Addrbook

```python
wget -O $HOME/.celestia-app/config/genesis.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Celestia/genesis.json"
wget -O $HOME/.celestia-app/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Celestia/addrbook.json"
```

`sha256sum $HOME/.celestia-app/config/genesis.json`

* 9727aac9bbfb021ce7fc695a92f901986421283a891b89e0af97bc9fad187793

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

```bash
sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.002utia\"/;" ~/.celestia-app/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
```

#### Pruning (optional)

```bash
pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/app.toml
```

#### Indexer (optional)

```bash
indexer="null" &&
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
```

## Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

## StateSync Celesita Mainnet

```bash
RPC="https://celestia.rpc.m.stavr.tech:443"
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s $RPC/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height); \
BLOCK_HEIGHT=$((LATEST_HEIGHT - 1000)); \
TRUST_HASH=$(curl -s "$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\"$RPC,$RPC\"| ; \
s|^(trust_height[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1$BLOCK_HEIGHT| ; \
s|^(trust_hash[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$TRUST_HASH\"| ; \
s|^(seeds[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"\"|" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
sudo systemctl stop celestia-appd && celestia-appd tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.celestia-app
wget -O $HOME/.celestia-app/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Celestia/Mainnet/Node/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart celestia-appd && sudo journalctl -fu celestia-appd -o cat
```

## SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

{% hint style="success" %}
[`https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Celestia/`](https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Celestia/)
{% endhint %}

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

## SnapShot Consensus Mainnet (Archive) updated every 5 days

{% hint style="success" %}
[`https://celestia-tools.stavr.tech/consensus/`](https://celestia-tools.stavr.tech/consensus/)
{% endhint %}

```bash
cd $HOME
snap install lz4
sudo systemctl stop celestia-appd
cp $HOME/.celestia-app/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.celestia-app/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.celestia-app/data
curl -o - -L https://celestia-m.archive-snap.stavr.tech/celestia-m-archive.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.celestia-app
mv $HOME/.celestia-app/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.celestia-app/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.celestia-app/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Celestia/Mainnet/Node/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart celestia-appd && journalctl -fu celestia-appd -o cat
```

### Start

```bash
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable celestia-appd
sudo systemctl restart celestia-appd && sudo journalctl -fu celestia-appd -o cat
```

#### Create validator

```python
celestia-appd tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 1000000utia \
--pubkey $(celestia-appd tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id celestia \
--gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia \
--identity="" \
--website="" \
--details="" -y
```

## [🧩Services and Tools🧩](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/mainnets/celestia/validator-node/statesync-snapshot)

## Monitoring

You can set up your node status alarm here - [Monitoring](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/monitoring)

## Security

You can create secure management of your wallet and your node by following this links.

[TMKMS](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/tmkms)               [Wallet Security](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/wallet-security)

### Delete node

```bash
sudo systemctl stop celestia-appd
sudo systemctl disable celestia-appd
rm /etc/systemd/system/celestia-appd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf celestia-app
rm -rf .celestia-app
rm -rf $(which celestia-appd)
```


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