💾Node Installation

Chihuahua Mainnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Mainnet	8	16GB	250GB

1) Auto_install script

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

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 1.22.2

ver="1.22.2"
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 20.06.25

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/ChihuahuaChain/chihuahua chihuahua
cd chihuahua
git checkout v9.0.5
make install

chihuahuad version --long | grep -e commit -e version

• version: v9.0.5

• commit: 286ef3b9b63837fd99c51d473b3f75ad824c18d5

Initiation

chihuahuad init STAVR_guide --chain-id=chihuahua-1
chihuahuad config chain-id chihuahua-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

wget -L -O $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/genesis.json https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Chihua/genesis.json

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

• 200a64f201c6b5799d81bcf52a25ce4eb1c0eac3f7c8c5eaa8335e75c5763f91

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0uhuahua\"/;" ~/.chihuahuad/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 10/g' $HOME/.chihuahuad/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\"/" $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

wget -O $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Chihua/addrbook.json"

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Chihuahua Mainnet

systemctl stop chihuahuad
SNAP_RPC=https://chihua.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/.chihuahuad/config/config.toml
chihuahuad tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.chihuahuad
wget -O $HOME/.chihuahuad/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Chihua/addrbook.json"
curl -o - -L https://chihua.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-chihua.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.chihuahuad
sudo systemctl restart chihuahuad && journalctl -fu chihuahuad -o cat

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

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

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

Start

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

Create validator

chihuahuad tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 100000000uhuahua \
--pubkey $(chihuahuad tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id chihuahua-1 \
--gas 300000 \
--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 chihuahuad
sudo systemctl disable chihuahuad
rm /etc/systemd/system/chihuahuad.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf chihuahua
rm -rf .chihuahuad
rm -rf $(which chihuahuad)