💾Node Installation

Aura Mainnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Auto_install script

wget -O aurat https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Aura/Testnet/aurat && chmod +x aurat && ./aurat

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 09.08.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/aura-nw/aura
wget https://github.com/aura-nw/aura/releases/download/v0.9.3-euphoria/aurad
chmod +x aurad
mv aurad $HOME/go/bin/

aurad version --long | grep -e version -e commit

• version: v0.9.3-euphoria

• commit: d3e717e44a2b9fadf3c19ec6a8bc2a98e2bac470

Initiation

aurad init STAVR_guide --chain-id=aura_6321-3
aurad config chain-id aura_6321-3

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

wget https://aura-network.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/aura_6321-3-genesis.tar.gz
tar -xzvf aura_6321-3-genesis.tar.gz
mv aura_6321-3-genesis.json $HOME/.aura/config/genesis.json

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

• 77c2a40672da669c6a443d5c4ee54e8d5f9399311f60a544558fb72fa60c274d

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.001uaura\"/;" ~/.aura/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.aura/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.aura/config/config.toml
seeds="705e3c2b2b554586976ed88bb27f68e4c4176a33@52.76.203.126:26656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.aura/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.aura/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.aura/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\"/" $HOME/.aura/config/app.toml &&
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.aura/config/app.toml &&
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.aura/config/app.toml &&
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.aura/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Aura Testnet

SOOON

SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours

SOOON

Start

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

Create validator

aurad tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000ueaura \
--from <walletName> \
--commission-max-change-rate "0.1" \
--commission-max-rate "0.2" \
--commission-rate "0.05" \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--details="" \
--identity="" \
--pubkey  $(aurad tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker STAVR_guide \
--fees 555uaura \
--chain-id euphoria-2 -y

🧩Services and Tools🧩

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 aurad
sudo systemctl disable aurad
rm /etc/systemd/system/aurad.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .aura
rm -rf aura
rm -rf $(which aurad)