# Node Installation

## [EXPLORER](https://explorer.stavr.tech/Kyve-Testnet/staking)

* **Minimum hardware requirements**:

| Node Type | CPU | RAM  | Storage |
| --------- | --- | ---- | ------- |
| Testnet   | 8   | 16GB | 250GB   |

## 1) Auto\_install script

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

## 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 30.04.25

```bash
cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget -O kyved https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/releases/download/v2.1.0/kyved_kaon_linux_amd64
chmod +x kyved
sudo mv kyved $HOME/go/bin/kyved
```

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

* version: v2.1.0
* commit: 81d60e07776ee0776fe793fe0706fd02a6eb2573

## Initiation

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

### Create/recover wallet

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

### Download Genesis and Addrbook

```python
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

```bash
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)

```bash
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)

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

## Create a service file

```bash
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

```bash
SOOON
```

## SnapShot Mainnet updated every 5 hours

{% hint style="success" %}
<https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Kyve/>
{% endhint %}

```bash
SOOON
```

### Start

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

#### Create validator

```python
#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🧩](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/testnets/kyve/sync)

## 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 kyved
sudo systemctl disable kyved
rm /etc/systemd/system/kyved.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .kyve
rm -rf $(which kyved)
```


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