💾Node Installation

Mars Mainnet guide

  • Minimum hardware requirements:

1) Auto_install script

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

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 08.06.23

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/mars-protocol/hub.git
cd hub
git checkout v1.0.2
make install

marsd version --long | grep -e commit -e version

  • version: 1.0.2

  • commit: ffbe9c28a6070abbbc7cf4be2f80d6a728715d62

Initiation

marsd init STAVR_guide --chain-id=mars-1
marsd config chain-id mars-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

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

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

  • 7d93bd062e5f6909cb46cf96b64533b821232f8766c6513ced535aa9ad37b425

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

sed -i -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0umars\"/" $HOME/.mars/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.mars/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.mars/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.mars/config/config.toml
seeds="52de8a7e2ad3da459961f633e50f64bf597c7585@seed.marsprotocol.io:443,d2d2629c8c8a8815f85c58c90f80b94690468c4f@tenderseed.ccvalidators.com:26012"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.mars/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.mars/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.mars/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\"/" $HOME/.mars/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.mars/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.mars/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.mars/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Mars Mainnet

SOOON

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

SOOON

Start

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

Create validator

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

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