💾Node Installation

Dora Testnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Auto_install script

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 26.05.25

cd $HOME && mkdir -p $HOME/go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/DoraFactory/doravota.git
cd doravota
git checkout 0.4.3
make install

dorad version --long | grep -e version -e commit

• version: 0.4.3

• commit: ""

Initiation

dorad init STAVR_guide --chain-id=vota-bobtail
dorad config chain-id vota-bobtail

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.dora/config/genesis.json "https://df-node-dump.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/vota-bobtail-genesis.json"

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

• a1bf832f3dfdaa6ea2093989bca914934c0e65831ef8578b9bdbef641fe77dab

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"100000000000peaka\"/;" ~/.dora/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.dora/config/config.toml
peers="7dc00ce0358fb4c56ee7001377fd636d9bc64457@18.141.204.195:26656,6ac2713480c066c9146b4a310250926f3eeae4b6@3.0.51.24:26656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.dora/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.dora/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.dora/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.dora/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\"/" $HOME/.dora/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.dora/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.dora/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.dora/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Dora Testnet

SNAP_RPC=https://dora.rpc.t.stavr.tech:443
peers="[e-mail]:32046"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.dora/config/config.toml
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(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/.dora/config/config.toml
dorad tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.dora
systemctl restart dorad && journalctl -u dorad -f -o cat

SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop dorad
cp $HOME/.dora/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.dora/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.dora/data
curl -o - -L https://dorat.snapshot.stavr.tech/dora-snap.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.dora --strip-components 2
curl -o - -L http://dorat.wasm.stavr.tech:1103/wasm-dora.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.dora --strip-components 2
mv $HOME/.dora/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.dora/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.dora/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Dora/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart dorad && journalctl -u dorad -f -o cat

Start

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable dorad 
sudo systemctl restart dorad && sudo journalctl -fu dorad -n100 -ocat

Create validator

dorad tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 1000000000000000000peaka \
--pubkey $(dorad tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id vota-bobtail \
--fees 20000000000000000peaka \
--identity="" \
--website="" \
--details="" -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 dorad
sudo systemctl disable dorad
rm /etc/systemd/system/dorad.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf doravota
rm -rf .dora
rm -rf $(which dorad)