💾Node Installation

Konstellation 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/Konstellation/konstm)

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 10.12.23

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/konstellation/konstellation
cd konstellation
git checkout v0.6.2
make build
mv $HOME/konstellation/build/knstld $HOME/go/bin/knstld

knstld version --long | grep -e commit -e version

• version: 0.6.2

• commit: 371486832893d7dc99a68ee333ca4d2e2c375f9e

Initiation

knstld init STAVR_guide --chain-id=darchub
knstld config chain-id darchub

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

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

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

• f0e98b0749801ba0b2ea5f1eeff72df847ec78bde9b8ff9ca114bedc8afd8763

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0udarc\"/" $HOME/.knstld/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.knstld/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.knstld/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.knstld/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.knstld/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.knstld/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 10/g' $HOME/.knstld/config/config.toml

Pruning

pruning="nothing"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.knstld/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Konstellation Mainnet

SOON

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/Konstellation/knstld-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep "last" && curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Konstellation/knstld-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep content-length | awk '{printf "%.2f GB\n", $2/1024/1024/1024}'

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

Start

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

Create validator

knstld tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 1 \
--commission-max-change-rate 1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 1000000udarc \
--pubkey $(knstld tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id darchub \
--gas 300000 \
--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 knstld
sudo systemctl disable knstld
rm /etc/systemd/system/knstld.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf konstellation
rm -rf .knstld
rm -rf $(which knstld)