💾Node Installation

IXO 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/Ixo/ixom)

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 1.21.6

ver="1.21.6"
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 11.12.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/ixofoundation/ixo-blockchain.git
cd ixo-blockchain
git checkout v4.0.0
make install

ixod version --long | grep -e commit -e version

  • version: 4.0.0

  • commit: 284e1de73f4a4b9effb61f3661e24e0db4d62d21

Initiation

ixod init STAVR_guide --chain-id=ixo-5
ixod config chain-id ixo-5

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

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

sha256sum $HOME/.ixod/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 = \"0uixo\"/;" ~/.ixod/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.ixod/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.ixod/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.ixod/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.ixod/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.ixod/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\"/" $HOME/.ixod/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.ixod/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.ixod/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.ixod/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Ixo Mainnet

systemctl stop ixod
SNAP_RPC=https://ixo.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/.ixod/config/config.toml
ixod tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.ixod
wget -O $HOME/.ixod/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Ixo/addrbook.json"
curl -o - -L https://ixo.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-ixod.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.ixod
sudo systemctl restart ixod && journalctl -fu ixod -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/Ixo/ixo-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep "last" && curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Ixo/ixo-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep content-length | awk '{printf "%.2f GB\n", $2/1024/1024/1024}'

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

Start

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

Create validator

ixod tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount=1000000uixo \
--pubkey $(ixod tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id ixo-5 \
--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 ixod
sudo systemctl disable ixod
rm /etc/systemd/system/ixod.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf ixo-blockchain
rm -rf .ixod
rm -rf $(which ixod)
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