💾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 28.02.25

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/persistenceOne/persistenceCore
cd persistenceCore
git checkout v11.19.0-rc0
make install

persistenceCore version --long | head

• version: v11.19.0-rc0

• commit: f744c277fe50390b1326141cb848001b6e2e2ffb

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 systemctl stop persistenceCore
cp $HOME/.persistenceCore/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.persistenceCore/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.persistenceCore/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Persistence/ | grep -oE 'persis-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Persistence/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Persistence/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.persistenceCore
curl -o - -L https://persis-t.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-persist.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.persistenceCore
mv $HOME/.persistenceCore/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.persistenceCore/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.persistenceCore/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Persistence/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart persistenceCore && journalctl -fu persistenceCore -o cat

Start

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

Create validator

persistenceCore tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 1000000uxprt \
--pubkey $(persistenceCore tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id test-core-2 \
--gas 300000 \
--identity="" \
--website="" \
--details="" -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 persistenceCore
sudo systemctl disable persistenceCore
rm /etc/systemd/system/persistenceCore.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf persistenceCore
rm -rf .persistenceCore
rm -rf $(which persistenceCore)