💾Node Installation

Kyve 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/Kyve/kyvem)

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 23.07.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget -O kyved https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/releases/download/v1.5.0/kyved_mainnet_linux_amd64
chmod +x kyved
sudo mv kyved $HOME/go/bin/kyved

kyved version --long | grep -e commit -e version

• version: v1.5.0

• commit: 3910277da474d51f4147fd388ac2c6cd4ca67c84

Initiation

kyved init STAVR_guide --chain-id=kyve-1
kyved config chain-id kyve-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

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

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

• 1dc3ec916f49ef8c221851566aca12a3f914b23afb3ab35067fc8a8d5f59c2ee

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0ukyve\"/;" ~/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 10/g' $HOME/.kyve/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\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Kyve Mainnet

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

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

Start

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

Create validator

kyved tx staking create-validator \
--amount 10000000000ukyve \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--identity="<identity>" \
--website="<website>" \
--details="<any details>" \
--commission-rate "0.10" \
--commission-max-rate "0.20" \
--commission-max-change-rate "0.05" \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--pubkey "$(kyved tendermint show-validator)" \
--from <your-key-name> \
--gas 51000000 \
--fees 1020000ukyve \
--chain-id kyve-1

🧩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 kyved
sudo systemctl disable kyved
rm /etc/systemd/system/kyved.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf chain
rm -rf .kyve
rm -rf $(which kyved)