💾Node Installation

Kyve Testnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	8	16GB	250GB

1) Auto_install script

source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/refs/heads/main/Kyve/Testnet/kyvet)

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 28.03.25

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget -O kyved https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/releases/download/v2.0.0-kaon2/kyved_kaon_linux_amd64
chmod +x kyved
sudo mv kyved $HOME/go/bin/kyved

kyved version --long | grep -e commit -e version

• version: v2.0.0-kaon2

• commit: e7aa07bdf93d0314d5d3a53e657d6b0607bc500f

Initiation

kyved init STAVR_guide --chain-id=kaon-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis and Addrbook

wget -L -O $HOME/.kyve/config/genesis.json https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Kyve/genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.kyve/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Kyve/addrbook.json"

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

• fd509e5d7142374288f4a8cb6bd1752f02aa2911587c33b195944cddbe7b8e7a

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0tkyve\"/;" ~/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 10/g' $HOME/.kyve/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\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Kyve Testnet

SOOON

SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Kyve/

SOOON

Start

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

Create validator

#pubkey
kyved tendermint show-validator --home $HOME/.kyve
cd $HOME
nano $HOME/.kyve/validator.json
{
  "pubkey": {"@type":"/cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey","key":"gGxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxEgQ0vsnRjPlA="},
  "amount": "1000000tkyve",
  "moniker": "",
  "identity": "F2F91999ECCC092F",
  "website": "https://stavr.tech",
  "security": "",
  "details": "",
  "commission-rate": "0.05",
  "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
  "commission-max-change-rate": "0.2",
  "min-self-delegation": "1"
}
kyved --home $HOME/.kyve tx staking create-validator $HOME/.kyve/validator.json --from WalletName  --chain-id kaon-1 --fees 160224334tkyve --gas 80112167 -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 kyved
sudo systemctl disable kyved
rm /etc/systemd/system/kyved.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .kyve
rm -rf $(which kyved)