Node Installation

Persistence Testnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	250GB

1) Auto_install script

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

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 -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/persistenceOne/persistenceCore
cd persistenceCore
git checkout v11.15.0-rc0
make install

persistenceCore version --long | head

• version: v11.15.0-rc0

• commit: 8b595ef4ab57d214b9580f15098c601eb31cbcd0

Initiation

persistenceCore init STAVR_guide --chain-id=test-core-2
persistenceCore config chain-id test-core-2

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Addrbook and Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Persistence/addrbook.json"
wget -O $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/genesis.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Persistence/genesis.json"

sha256sum $HOME/.persistenceCore/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 = \"0uxprt\"/;" ~/.persistenceCore/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.persistenceCore/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\"/" $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Persistence Testnet

systemctl stop persistenceCore
SNAP_RPC=https://persistence.rpc.t.stavr.tech:443
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/.persistenceCore/config/config.toml
persistenceCore tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.persistenceCore
wget -O $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Persistence/addrbook.json"
curl -o - -L https://persis-t.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-persist.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.persistenceCore
sudo systemctl restart persistenceCore && journalctl -fu persistenceCore -o cat

SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours

You can check the size and time of snapshot creation with this command curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Persistence/persis-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep "last" && curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Persistence/persis-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep content-length | awk '{printf "%.2f GB\n", $2/1024/1024/1024}'

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo