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# Node Installation

## [EXPLORER](https://explorer.stavr.tech/Provenance/staking)

* **Minimum hardware requirements**:

| Node Type | CPU | RAM  | Storage |
| --------- | --- | ---- | ------- |
| Mainnet   | 8   | 16GB | 250GB   |

## 1) Auto\_install script

```bash
wget -O provenancem https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Provenance/provenancem && chmod +x provenancem && ./provenancem
```

## 2) Manual installation

#### Preparing the server

```bash
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 1.23.1

```bash
ver="1.23.1"
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 04.12.25

```bash
cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
export PIO_HOME=~/.provenanced
git clone https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance.git && cd provenance
git checkout v1.26.0
make clean
make install
```

`provenanced version --long | grep -e commit -e version`

* `version: v1.26.0`
* `commit:` 5db988ff 

## Initiation

```python
provenanced init STAVR_guide --chain-id=pio-mainnet-1
provenanced config chain-id pio-mainnet-1
```

### Create/recover wallet

```bash
provenanced keys add <walletname>
           OR
provenanced keys add <walletname> --recover
```

### Download Genesis

```python
wget -O $HOME/.provenanced/config/genesis.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Provenance/genesis.json"
```

`sha256sum $HOME/.provenanced/config/genesis.json`

* 8b10448662a55462fb23a8f4faedae2ec8a24aefe04d2e7475400c0367948940

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

```bash
sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"1905nhash\"/;" ~/.provenanced/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.provenanced/config/config.toml
sed -i.bak -e "s/^timeout_commit *=.*/timeout_commit = \"1s\"/" $HOME/.provenanced/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.provenanced/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.provenanced/config/config.toml
```

#### Pruning (optional)

```bash
pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.provenanced/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.provenanced/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.provenanced/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.provenanced/config/app.toml
```

#### Indexer (optional)

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

### Download addrbook

```bash
wget -O $HOME/.provenanced/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Provenance/addrbook.json"
```

## Create a service file

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

[Service]
User=$USER
Environment="PIO_HOME=$HOME/.provenanced"
ExecStart=$(which provenanced) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

## StateSync Provenance Mainnet

```bash
SOON
```

## SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

```bash
SOON
```

### Start

```bash
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable provenanced 
sudo systemctl restart provenanced && sudo journalctl -fu provenanced  -o cat
```

#### Create validator

```python
provenanced tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000nhash \
--from <walletName> \
--commission-max-change-rate "0.1" \
--commission-max-rate "0.2" \
--commission-rate "0.05" \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--details="" \
--identity="" \
--pubkey  $(provenanced tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker STAVR_Guide \
--fees 555000000nhash \
--chain-id pio-mainnet-1 -y
```

## [🧩Services and Tools🧩](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/mainnets/provenance/statesync-snapshot)

## Monitoring

You can set up your node status alarm here - [Monitoring](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/monitoring)

## Security

You can create secure management of your wallet and your node by following this links.

[TMKMS](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/tmkms)               [Wallet Security](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/wallet-security)

### Delete node

```bash
sudo systemctl stop provenanced
sudo systemctl disable provenanced
rm /etc/systemd/system/provenanced.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .provenanced
rm -rf provenance
rm -rf $(which provenanced)
```