💾Node Installation

Jackal Testnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Auto_install script

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

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 13.09.24

cd $HOME && mkdir $HOME/go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/JackalLabs/canine-chain && cd canine-chain
git checkout v4.1.0-beta.2
make install

canined version --long | head

• version: 4.1.0-beta.2

• commit: 4e64e646fa8036eb48e86cb512b0da81bec5e283

Initiation

canined init STAVR_guide --chain-id=lupulella-2
canined config chain-id lupulella-2

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

curl -s  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Jackal/Testnet/genesis.json" > ~/.canine/config/genesis.json

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

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

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

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Jackal Testnet

SNAP_RPC=https://jkl.rpc.t.stavr.tech:443
peers="[e-mail]:19126"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.canine/config/config.toml
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s $SNAP_RPC/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height); \
BLOCK_HEIGHT=$((LATEST_HEIGHT - 100)); \
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/.canine/config/config.toml
canined tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.canine
wget -O $HOME/.canine/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Jackal/Testnet/addrbook.json"
systemctl restart canined && journalctl -u canined -f -o cat

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

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

Start

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

Create validator

canined tx staking create-validator \
  --amount 1000000ujkl \
  --from <walletName> \
  --commission-max-change-rate "0.1" \
  --commission-max-rate "0.2" \
  --commission-rate "0.1" \
  --min-self-delegation "1" \
  --pubkey  $(canined tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker STAVR_guide \
  --chain-id lupulella-2 \
  --identity="" \
  --details="" \
  --website="" -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 canined
sudo systemctl disable canined
rm /etc/systemd/system/canined.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf canine-chain
rm -rf .canine
rm -rf $(which canined)