💾Node Installation

Kichain Mainnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Mainnet	8	16GB	250GB

1) Auto_install script

wget -O kichm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/kichain/kichm && chmod +x kichm && ./kichm

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 1.21.6

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 26.05.23

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/KiFoundation/ki-tools.git
cd ki-tools
git checkout 5.0.2
make install

kid version --long | grep -e commit -e version

• version: Mainnet-5.0.2

• commit: 17b36b312b2866831b1a9edff15745fe16e8d4cd

Initiation

kid init STAVR_guide --chain-id=kichain-2
kid  config chain-id kichain-2

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

wget -L -O $HOME/.kid/config/genesis.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/kichain/genesis.json"

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

• 42bc6a9b54254d862f954c30d874960f46653c07472bc9d7fe103fef7f84b371

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.025uxki\"/;" ~/.kid/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.kid/config/config.toml
peers="6ebceb16da1c15c48086eaed1be807939f3e50f0@65.108.199.222:21636"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.kid/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.kid/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.kid/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.kid/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\"/" $HOME/.kid/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.kid/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.kid/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.kid/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

wget -O $HOME/.kid/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/kichain/addrbook.json"

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Kichain Mainnet

SOOON

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

SOOON

Start

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

Create validator

kid tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount=1000000uxki \
--pubkey $(kid tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id kichain-2 \
--fees="5000uxki" \
--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 kid
sudo systemctl disable kid
rm /etc/systemd/system/kid.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf ki-tools
rm -rf .kid
rm -rf $(which kid)