💾Node Installation

Zeta Mainnet guide

  • Approximate 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/Zetachain/zetam)

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="1.20.5"
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 20.11.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget -O $HOME/zetacored https://github.com/zeta-chain/node/releases/download/v22.0.0/zetacored-linux-amd64
chmod +x $HOME/zetacored 
mv $HOME/zetacored $HOME/go/bin

zetacored version --long | grep -e commit -e version

  • version: 22.0.0

  • commit: 734b2e9fb87b974acb99f7c8298852445fe61305

Initiation

zetacored init STAVR_guide --chain-id=zetachain_7000-1
zetacored config chain-id zetachain_7000-1

Create/recover wallet

zetacored keys add <walletname>
           OR
zetacored songd keys add <walletname> --recover

Download Addrbook and Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.zetacored/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Zetachain/addrbook.json"
wget -L -O $HOME/.zetacored/config/genesis.json https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Zetachain/genesis.json

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

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

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

Indexer (optional)

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

Create a service file

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/zetacored.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Zetachain node
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
WorkingDirectory=$HOME/.zetacored
ExecStart=$(which zetacored) start --home $HOME/.zetacored
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Zetachain Mainnet

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

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

Start

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

Create validator

zetacored tx staking create-validator \
--amount=1000000azeta \
--pubkey=$(zetacored tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker=STAVR_Guide \
--chain-id=zetachain_7000-1 \
--commission-rate="0.10" \
--commission-max-rate="0.20" \
--commission-max-change-rate="0.1" \
--min-self-delegation="1" \
--gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --fees 2100000000000000azeta \
--from=<walletName> \
--identity="" \
--website="" \
--details="" -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 zetacored
sudo systemctl disable zetacored
rm /etc/systemd/system/zetacored.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .zetacored
rm -rf node
rm -rf $(which zetacored)

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