Approximate hardware requirements:
1) Auto_install script
wget -O lavam https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Lava/Mainnet/lavam && chmod +x lavam && ./lavam
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 11.11.24
cd $HOME && mkdir $HOME/go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/lavanet/lava/
cd lava
git checkout v4.1.0
make install-all
lavad version --long | grep -e commit -e version
commit: c57c9f807ef914e810276d5895fac7aa9b2a82ab
Initiation
lavad init STAVR_guide --chain-id=lava-mainnet-1
lavad config chain-id lava-mainnet-1
Create/recover wallet
lavad keys add <walletname>
OR
lavad keys add <walletname> --recover
Download Genesis
curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Lava/Mainnet/genesis.json" > $HOME/.lava/config/genesis.json
sha256sum $HOME/.lava/config/genesis.json
5ba7dc9ac4ee0ea1776c8f13dc45be84ffc2ef3ffbe8271e30b573134ecd61ea
Set up the minimum gas price and Peers/Seeds/Filter peers/MaxPeers
sed -i -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.000000001ulava\"/" $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml
sed -i \
-e 's/timeout_commit = ".*"/timeout_commit = "30s"/g' \
-e 's/timeout_propose = ".*"/timeout_propose = "1s"/g' \
-e 's/timeout_precommit = ".*"/timeout_precommit = "1s"/g' \
-e 's/timeout_precommit_delta = ".*"/timeout_precommit_delta = "500ms"/g' \
-e 's/timeout_prevote = ".*"/timeout_prevote = "1s"/g' \
-e 's/timeout_prevote_delta = ".*"/timeout_prevote_delta = "500ms"/g' \
-e 's/timeout_propose_delta = ".*"/timeout_propose_delta = "500ms"/g' \
-e 's/skip_timeout_commit = ".*"/skip_timeout_commit = false/g' \
$HOME/.lava/config/config.toml
Pruning (optional)
pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="10000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="1000"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml
Indexer (optional)
indexer="null" &&
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml
Download addrbook
wget -O $HOME/.lava/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Lava/Mainnet/addrbook.json"
Create a service file
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/lavad.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=lava
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which lavad) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
StateSync Lava Mainnet
SNAP_RPC=https://lava.rpc.m.stavr.tech:443
peers="b9dfd3f222e65ae605efc29dc9e3faecdc3b71d0@lava.seed.stavr.tech:197"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(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/.lava/config/config.toml
lavad tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.lava
wget -O $HOME/.lava/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Lava/Mainnet/addrbook.json"
systemctl restart lavad && journalctl -fu lavad -o cat
SnapShot Mainnet updated every 30 hours
cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop lavad
cp $HOME/.lava/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.lava/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.lava/data
curl -o - -L https://lava.snapshot-m.stavr.tech/lava-snap.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.lava --strip-components 2
mv $HOME/.lava/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.lava/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.lava/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Lava/Mainnet/addrbook.json"
systemctl restart lavad && journalctl -fu lavad -o cat
Start
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable lavad
sudo systemctl restart lavad && sudo journalctl -fu lavad -o cat
Create validator
lavad tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000ulava \
--from <walletName> \
--commission-max-change-rate "0.1" \
--commission-max-rate "0.2" \
--commission-rate "0.1" \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--pubkey $(lavad tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker STAVR_guide \
--chain-id lava-mainnet-1 \
--identity="" \
--details="" \
--website="" -y
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 lavad
sudo systemctl disable lavad
rm /etc/systemd/system/lavad.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf lava
rm -rf .lava
rm -rf $(which lavad)
