# Node Installation

## [EXPLORER](https://explorer.stavr.tech/Quicksilver-Mainnet)

* **Minimum hardware requirements**:

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

## 1) Auto\_install script

```bash
source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Quicksilver/quick)
```

## 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 1.21.6

```bash
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 09.05.25

```bash
cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget -O quicksilverd https://github.com/quicksilver-zone/quicksilver/releases/download/v1.8.1/quicksilverd-v1.8.1-amd64
chmod +x quicksilverd
mv $HOME/quicksilverd $HOME/go/bin/quicksilverd
```

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

* version: v1.8.1
* commit: d998af810147d0d45e29e4ae19aff41569d834ca

## Initiation

```python
quicksilverd init STAVR_guide --chain-id=quicksilver-2
quicksilverd config chain-id quicksilver-2
```

### Create/recover wallet

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

### Download Addrbook and Genesis

```python
wget -O $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Quicksilver/addrbook.json"
wget -O $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/genesis.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Quicksilver/genesis.json"
```

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

* 4398a681c600c9ed9ef736356c0bdede618d7d2f709ed74172e5e5e48c9f8d6c

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

```bash
sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0001uqck\"/;" ~/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.quicksilverd/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\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml
```

#### Indexer (optional)

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

## Create a service file

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

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

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

## StateSync Quicksilver Mainnet

```bash
systemctl stop quicksilverd
SNAP_RPC=https://quick.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/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
quicksilverd tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.quicksilverd
wget -O $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Quicksilver/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart quicksilverd && journalctl -fu quicksilverd -o cat
```

## SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

{% hint style="success" %}
<https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Quicksilver/>
{% endhint %}

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

### Start

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

#### Create validator

```python
quicksilverd tx staking create-validator \
--chain-id quicksilver-2 \
--commission-rate=0.1 \
--commission-max-rate=0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate=0.1 \
--min-self-delegation="1" \
--amount=1000000uqck \
--pubkey $(quicksilverd tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "STAVRguide" \
--from=<name_wallet> \
--gas="auto" \
--fees 555uqck -y
```

## [🧩Services and Tools🧩](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/mainnets/quicksilver/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 quicksilverd
sudo systemctl disable quicksilverd
rm /etc/systemd/system/quicksilverd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf quicksilver
rm -rf .quicksilverd
rm -rf $(which quicksilverd)
```


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