Minimum hardware requirements:
1) Auto_install script
source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Elys/Mainnet/elysm)
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 25.02.25
cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/elys-network/elys.git
cd elys
git checkout v2.1.0
make install
elysd version --long | grep -e version -e commit
commit: 8ca02474565581475e2c8966fc44cb9c9afc1389
Initiation
elysd init STAVR_Guide --chain-id elys-1
Create/recover wallet
elysd keys add <walletname>
OR
elysd keys add <walletname> --recover
Download Addrbook and Genesis
wget -O $HOME/.elys/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Elys/genesis.json"
wget -O $HOME/.elys/config/genesis.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Elys/genesis.json"
sha256sum $HOME/.elys/config/genesis.json
87b7e5d9bc7229289c095f52761580d9d3fd8dd2c04c5e6966d9eb2697a4d2c1
Set up the minimum gas price and Peers/Seeds/Filter peers/MaxPeers
sed -i 's|minimum-gas-prices =.*|minimum-gas-prices = "0.0003uelys"|g' $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
Pruning (optional)
pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
Indexer (optional)
indexer="null" &&
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
Create a service file
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/elysd.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=elys
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which elysd) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
StateSync Elys Mainnet
systemctl stop elysd
SNAP_RPC=https://elys.rpc.m.stavr.tech:443
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(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/.elys/config/config.toml
elysd tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.elys
wget -O $HOME/.elys/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Elys/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart elysd && journalctl -fu elysd -o cat
SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours
cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop elysd
cp $HOME/.elys/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.elys/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.elys/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Elys/ | grep -oE 'elys-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Elys/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Elys/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.elys
mv $HOME/.elys/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.elys/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.elys/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Elys/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart elysd && journalctl -fu elysd -o cat
Start
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable elysd
sudo systemctl restart elysd && sudo journalctl -fu elysd -o cat
Create validator
#pubkey
elysd tendermint show-validator --home /root/.elys
nano $HOME/.elys/validator.json
{
"pubkey": {"#pubkey"},
"amount": "1000000uelys",
"moniker": "STAVR_guide",
"identity": "",
"website": "",
"security": "",
"details": "",
"commission-rate": "0.05",
"commission-max-rate": "0.2",
"commission-max-change-rate": "0.2",
"min-self-delegation": "1"
}
elysd tx staking create-validator $HOME/.elys/validator.json --from=WalletName --chain-id=elys-1 --fees 100uelys -y
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 elysd
sudo systemctl disable elysd
rm /etc/systemd/system/elysd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf elys
rm -rf .elys
rm -rf $(which elysd)