💾Node Installation

Union Testnet guide

  • Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type
CPU
RAM
Storage

Testnet

4

8GB

150GB

1) Auto_install script

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

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 10.06.24

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget https://uniont.binary.stavr.tech/union/uniond
chmod +x uniond
mv uniond $HOME/go/bin/

uniond --home $HOME/.union version --long

  • version: v0.24.0

  • commit: 4d3bf1c9ca1e7b210206ab20c32fe0300ea23291

Initiation

uniond --home $HOME/.union init STAVR_guide --chain-id union-testnet-8

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Genesis

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

sha256sum $HOME/.union/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 = \"0.0muno\"/;" ~/.union/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.union/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.union/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.union/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.union/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 10/g' $HOME/.union/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\"/" $HOME/.union/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.union/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.union/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.union/config/app.toml

Indexer (optional)

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

Download addrbook

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

Create a service file

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

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which uniond) start --home /root/.union
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync Union Testnet

SNAP_RPC=https://union.rpc.t.stavr.tech:443
peers="59d554ab6bee4d814afb3e15af4031df19b2084c@union-t.seed.stavr.tech:4256"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.union/config/config.toml
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(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/.union/config/config.toml
uniond tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.union
wget -O $HOME/.union/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Union/addrbook.json"
systemctl restart uniond && journalctl -u uniond -f -o cat

SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop uniond
cp $HOME/.union/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.union/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.union/data
curl -o - -L https://union-t.snapshot.stavr.tech/union-snap.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.union --strip-components 2
curl -o - -L https://union-t.wasm.stavr.tech/wasm-union.tar.lz4 | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.union --strip-components 2
mv $HOME/.union/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.union/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.union/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obajay/nodes-Guides/main/Projects/Union/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart uniond && journalctl -u uniond -f -o cat

Start

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

Create validator

#pubkey
uniond tendermint show-validator --home /root/.union
cd $HOME
nano validator.json
{
  "pubkey": {#pubkey},
  "amount": "1000000muno",
  "moniker": "STAVR_Guide",
  "identity": "",
  "website": "",
  "security": "",
  "details": "",
  "commission-rate": "0.1",
  "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
  "commission-max-change-rate": "0.1",
  "min-self-delegation": "1"
}

uniond --home /root/.union tx staking create-validator /root/validator.json --from Wallet_name  --chain-id union-testnet-8

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 uniond
sudo systemctl disable uniond
rm /etc/systemd/system/uniond.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf .union
rm -rf $(which uniond)

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