💾Node Installation

Quicksilver Testnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Auto_install script

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

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 14.08.25

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/ingenuity-build/quicksilver
cd quicksilver
git checkout v1.9.3
make install

quicksilverd version --long | grep -e commit -e version

• version: v1.9.3

• commit: 4c17c35aede79f9838b89a284515be908f07386d

Initiation

quicksilverd init STAVR_guide --chain-id=rhye-3
quicksilverd config chain-id rhye-3

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Addrbook and Genesis

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

sha256sum $HOME/.quicksilverd/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 = \"0.0001uqck\"/;" ~/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.quicksilverd/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\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Quicksilver Testnet

systemctl stop quicksilverd
SNAP_RPC=https://quick.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/.quicksilverd/config/config.toml
quicksilverd tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.quicksilverd
wget -O $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Quicksilver/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart quicksilverd && journalctl -fu quicksilverd -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/Quicksilver/quick-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep "last" && curl -sI https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Quicksilver/quick-snap-1.tar.lz4 | grep content-length | awk '{printf "%.2f GB\n", $2/1024/1024/1024}'

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop quicksilverd
cp $HOME/.quicksilverd/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.quicksilverd/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.quicksilverd/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Quicksilver/ | grep -oE 'quick-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Quicksilver/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Quicksilver/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.quicksilverd
mv $HOME/.quicksilverd/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.quicksilverd/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.quicksilverd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Quicksilver/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart quicksilverd && journalctl -fu quicksilverd -o cat

Start

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

Create validator

quicksilverd tx staking create-validator \
--chain-id rhye-3 \
--commission-rate=0.1 \
--commission-max-rate=0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate=0.1 \
--min-self-delegation="1" \
--amount=1000000uqck \
--pubkey $(quicksilverd tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "STAVR_guide" \
--from=<name_wallet> \
--gas="auto" \
--fees 555uqck -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 quicksilverd
sudo systemctl disable quicksilverd
rm /etc/systemd/system/quicksilverd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf quicksilver
rm -rf .quicksilverd
rm -rf $(which quicksilverd)