✳️Bridge Node

Installation

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EXPLORER

• Hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Bridge node	6	16GB	10TB

1) Auto_install script

source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Celestia/Testnet/Bridge/bridget)

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 1.23.1

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 05.09.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-node.git
cd celestia-node/
git checkout tags/v0.16.0 
make build 
sudo make install 
make cel-key
mv $HOME/celestia-node/cel-key /usr/local/bin/

celestia version

• version: v0.16.0

• commit: 6744f648649ebb5fee1b27faf7aca96ecf4519b2

Create/recover wallet

cel-key add bridge-wallet --keyring-backend test --node.type bridge --p2p.network mocha
           OR
cel-key add bridge-wallet --keyring-backend test --node.type bridge  --recover --p2p.network mocha

Initiation

#--core.ip - IP address RPC Node
#--p2p.network - chain id (mocha-4)
#--core.rpc.port - RPC port from our RPC node
#--core.grpc.port - gRPC port from our RPC node
#--keyring.keyname -  our Wallet Name
celestia bridge init --core.ip <RPC_NODE_IP> --p2p.network mocha --core.rpc.port 26657 --core.grpc.port 9090 --keyring.keyname bridge-wallet

Create a service file

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

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which celestia) bridge start \
--p2p.network mocha \
--metrics.tls=true --metrics --metrics.endpoint otel.celestia-mocha.com \
--keyring.keyname bridge-wallet
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

SnapShot Bridge Testnet (updated every 4 days)

You can check the size and time of snapshot creation with this command curl -sI https://https://celestia.bridge-archive.snap-t.stavr.tech/bridge-t-snap.tar.lz4 | grep "last" && curl -sI https://celestia.bridge-archive.snap-t.stavr.tech/bridge-t-snap.tar.lz4 | grep content-length | awk '{printf "%.2f GB\n", $2/1024/1024/1024}'

cd $HOME
snap install lz4
sudo systemctl stop celestia-bridge
rm -rf $HOME/.celestia-bridge-mocha-4/{blocks,data,index,inverted_index,transients,.lock}
curl -o - -L https://celestia.bridge-archive.snap-t.stavr.tech/bridge-t-snap.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.celestia-bridge-mocha-4/ --strip-components 2
sudo systemctl restart celestia-bridge && sudo journalctl -fu celestia-bridge -ocat

Useful Tools

Start

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable celestia-bridge
systemctl restart celestia-bridge && journalctl -fu celestia-bridge -ocat

🧩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

systemctl stop celestia-bridge
systemctl disable celestia-bridge
rm /etc/systemd/system/celestia-bridge.service
systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .celestia-bridge-mocha-4
rm -rf celestia-node
rm -rf $(which celestia)