💾Node Installation

Firma Mainnet guide

  • 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/Firmachain/firmam)

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 1.19

ver="1.19" && \
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 19.12.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/FirmaChain/firmachain.git
cd firmachain
git checkout v0.4.0
make install

firmachaind version --long | grep -e commit -e version

  • version: 0.4.0

  • commit: e2ab40a4074a05838f94babab566fe231f4c39b3

Initiation

firmachaind init STAVR_guide --chain-id=colosseum-1
firmachaind config chain-id colosseum-1

Create/recover wallet

firmachaind ahuad keys add <walletname>
           OR
firmachaind keys add <walletname> --recover

Download Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.firmachain/config/genesis.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Firmachain/genesis.json"

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

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.1ufct\"/;" ~/.firmachain/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.firmachain/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.firmachain/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.firmachain/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.firmachain/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.firmachain/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\"/" $HOME/.firmachain/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.firmachain/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.firmachain/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.firmachain/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Firma Mainnet

systemctl stop firmachaind
SNAP_RPC=https://firma.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/.firmachain/config/config.toml
firmachaind tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.firmachain
wget -O $HOME/.firmachain/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Firmachain/addrbook.json"
curl -o - -L http://firma.wasm.stavr.tech:12/wasm-firma.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.firmachain
sudo systemctl restart firmachaind && journalctl -fu firmachaind -o cat

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

You can check the size and time of snapshot creation with this command curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Firmachain/firma-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep "last" && curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Firmachain/firma-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep content-length | awk '{printf "%.2f GB\n", $2/1024/1024/1024}'

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

Start

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

Create validator

firmachaind tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount=1000000ufct \
--pubkey $(firmachaind tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id colosseum-1 \
--fees="20000ufct" \
--identity="" \
--website="" \
--details="" -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 firmachaind
sudo systemctl disable firmachaind
rm /etc/systemd/system/firmachaind.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf firmachain
rm -rf .firmachain
rm -rf $(which firmachaind)

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