# Node Installation

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

* **Minimum hardware requirements**:

| Node Type | CPU | RAM | Storage |
| --------- | --- | --- | ------- |
| Testnet   | 4   | 8GB | 150GB   |

## 1) Auto\_install script

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

## 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 09.07.25

```bash
cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/DecentralCardGame/Cardchain
wget -O Cardchaind https://github.com/DecentralCardGame/Cardchain/releases/download/v0.18.0/cardchaind
chmod +x Cardchaind
mv $HOME/Cardchaind /usr/local/bin
```

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

* version: 0.18.0
* commit: b7ae72ed99a229f1d051b85313c3867a1f9cc584

## Initiation

```python
Cardchaind init STAVR_guide --chain-id cardtestnet-14
Cardchaind config chain-id cardtestnet-14
```

### Create/recover wallet

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

### Download Addrbook and Genesis

```python
wget -O $HOME/.cardchaind/config/addrbook.json "https://server-3.stavr.tech/Testnet/Crowd/addrbook.json"
wget -O $HOME/.cardchaind/config/genesis.json "https://server-3.stavr.tech/Testnet/Crowd/genesis.json"
```

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

* c1b55d052192ea64ec8011d687df4c7aa68fae9ab221ec5a9fb2b19eaca1fe92

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

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

#### Indexer (optional)

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

## Create a service file

```bash
sudo tee <<EOF >/dev/null /etc/systemd/system/Cardchaind.service
[Unit]
Description=Cardchain Daemon
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which Cardchaind) start
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

## StateSync Crowd Testnet

```bash
systemctl stop Cardchaind
SNAP_RPC=https://crowd.rpc.t.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/.cardchaind/config/config.toml
Cardchaind tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.cardchaind
wget -O $HOME/.cardchaind/config/addrbook.json "https://server-3.stavr.tech/Testnet/Crowd/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart Cardchaind && journalctl -fu Cardchaind -n100 -ocat
```

## SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours

{% hint style="success" %}
<https://server-3.stavr.tech/Testnet/Crowd/>
{% endhint %}

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

### Start

```bash
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable Cardchaind 
sudo systemctl restart Cardchaind && sudo journalctl -u Cardchaind -f -o cat
```

#### Create validator

```python
Cardchaind tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000ubpf \
--from <walletName> \
--commission-max-change-rate "0.2" \
--commission-max-rate "1" \
--commission-rate "0.1" \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--details="" \
--identity="" \
--pubkey  $(Cardchaind tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker STAVR_Guide \
--fees 300ubpf \
--chain-id cardtestnet-14 -y
```

## [🧩Services and Tools🧩](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/testnets/crowd/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 Cardchaind
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/Cardchaind.service
sudo rm -rf $HOME/.cardchaind/
sudo rm -rf Testnet
sudo rm -rf $(which Cardchaind)
```


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