💾Node Installation

Tellor Testnet guide

EXPLORER

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Auto_install script

wget -O tellort https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Tellor/tellort && chmod +x tellort && ./tellort

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 1.23

ver="1.23"
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 11.09.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/tellor-io/layer
cd layer
git checkout v0.7.1-fix
make install

layerd version --long | grep -e version -e commit

• version: ""

• commit: ""

Initiation

layerd init STAVR_guide --chain-id layertest-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.layer/config/genesis.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Tellor/genesis.json"

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

• 69741c8ee0f2ef42a6ab0c8a3d905fb86a19162cb89cc717157ffd33d59b7dc0

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

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"1loya\"/;" ~/.layer/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.layer/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.layer/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.layer/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.layer/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.layer/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\"/" $HOME/.layer/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.layer/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.layer/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.layer/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

wget -O $HOME/.layer/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Tellor/addrbook.json"

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Tellor Testnet

SOOOON

SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours

SOOOON

Start

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

Create validator

#pubkey
layerd tendermint show-validator --home /root/.layer
cd $HOME
nano /root/.layer/validator.json
{
  "pubkey": {"#pubkey"},
  "amount": "1000000uttnt",
  "moniker": "STAVR_guide",
  "identity": "",
  "website": "",
  "security": "",
  "details": "",
  "commission-rate": "0.05",
  "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
  "commission-max-change-rate": "0.2",
  "min-self-delegation": "1"
}
layerd --home /root/.layer tx staking create-validator /root/.layer/validator.json --from WalletName --chain-id layertest-1 -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 layerd
sudo systemctl disable layerd
rm /etc/systemd/system/layerd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf layer
rm -rf .layer
rm -rf $(which layerd)