💾Node Installation

Jackal Mainnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Mainnet	12	32GB	450GB

1) Auto_install script

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

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 1.23.3

cd $HOME
VER="1.23.3"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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"
[ ! -f ~/.bash_profile ] && touch ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:~/go/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
[ ! -d ~/go/bin ] && mkdir -p ~/go/bin

Build 22.04.25

cd $HOME && mkdir $HOME/go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/JackalLabs/canine-chain && cd canine-chain
git checkout v4.6.0
make install

canined version --long | head

• version: 4.6.0

• commit: 09d64dcbab0a96da1da1605acfc4914069022ba4

Initiation

canined init STAVR_guide --chain-id=jackal-1
canined config chain-id jackal-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

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

sha256sum $HOME/.canine/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 = \"0.0ujkl\"/;" ~/.canine/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.canine/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.canine/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.canine/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.canine/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.canine/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.canine/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\"/" $HOME/.canine/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.canine/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.canine/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.canine/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Jackal Mainnet

systemctl stop canined
SNAP_RPC=https://jkl.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/.canine/config/config.toml
canined tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.canine
wget -O $HOME/.canine/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Jackal/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart canined && journalctl -fu canined -o cat

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

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

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

Start

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

Create validator

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