💾Node Installation

Elys Testnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Auto_install script

wget -O elyss https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Elys/elyss && chmod +x elyss && ./elyss

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 19.11.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/elys-network/elys elys
cd elys
git checkout v0.51.0
make install

elysd version --long | grep -e version -e commit

• version: v0.51.0

• commit: 2de842b6ab701d42205b312d08305834fa6a89aa

Initiation

elysd init STAVR_guide

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.elys/config/genesis.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Elys/genesis.json"

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

• 4f0ee139d9ce25ead4195bf7afa4e08422d3a409e0e1d3e271e7d8b512bff0a9

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

sed -i -e "s|^minimum-gas-prices *=.*|minimum-gas-prices = \"0.00025uelys,0.0018ibc/2180E84E20F5679FCC760D8C165B60F42065DEF7F46A72B447CFF1B7DC6C0A65,0.00025ibc/E2D2F6ADCC68AA3384B2F5DFACCA437923D137C14E86FB8A10207CF3BED0C8D4\"|" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
seeds=""
CONFIG_TOML="$HOME/.elys/config/config.toml"
sed -i 's/timeout_propose =.*/timeout_propose = "3s"/g' $CONFIG_TOML
sed -i 's/timeout_propose_delta =.*/timeout_propose_delta = "500ms"/g' $CONFIG_TOML
sed -i 's/timeout_prevote =.*/timeout_prevote = "1s"/g' $CONFIG_TOML
sed -i 's/timeout_prevote_delta =.*/timeout_prevote_delta = "500ms"/g' $CONFIG_TOML
sed -i 's/timeout_precommit =.*/timeout_precommit = "1s"/g' $CONFIG_TOML
sed -i 's/timeout_precommit_delta =.*/timeout_precommit_delta = "500ms"/g' $CONFIG_TOML
sed -i 's/^timeout_commit =.*/timeout_commit = "3s"/g' $CONFIG_TOML
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
sed -i.bak -e 's/db_backend = ".*"/db_backend = "pebbledb"/' $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.elys/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.elys/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\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Elys Testnet

SOOON

SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours

SOOON

Start

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

Create validator

elysd tx staking create-validator \
  --amount 1000000uelys \
  --commission-max-change-rate "0.2" \
  --commission-max-rate "0.50" \
  --commission-rate "0.1" \
  --min-self-delegation "1" \
  --pubkey=$(elysd tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker 'STAVR_guide' \
  --website "" \
  --identity "" \
  --details "" \
  --chain-id elystestnet-1 \
  --from Wallet_Name -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 elysd
sudo systemctl disable elysd
rm /etc/systemd/system/elysd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf elys
rm -rf .elys
rm -rf $(which elysd)