💾Node Installation

XRPL 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/Xrpl/xrplt)

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 25.03.25

cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/xrplevm/node.git xrplevm
cd xrplevm
git checkout v7.0.0
make install

exrpd version --long | grep -e version -e commit

• version: v7.0.0

• commit: 9f634ac204f3fdd882cdc06c33cdf6b245a0e358

Initiation

exrpd init STAVR_guide --chain-id xrplevm_1449000-1

Create/recover wallet

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

Download Addrbook and Genesis

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

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

• 05f53e64b51bd1cd79ee598e9c76b0ce47e47b9ddff7311fcbd2b8f479d36a25

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

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

Indexer (optional)

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

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync XRPL Testnet

systemctl stop exrpd
SNAP_RPC=https://xrpl.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/.exrpd/config/config.toml
exrpd tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.exrpd
wget -O $HOME/.exrpd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart exrpd && journalctl -fu exrpd -n1000 -ocat

SnapShot Testnet updated every 5 hours (Pruned)

https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop exrpd
cp $HOME/.exrpd/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.exrpd/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.exrpd/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/ | grep -oE 'xrpl-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.exrpd
mv $HOME/.exrpd/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.exrpd/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.exrpd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart exrpd && journalctl -fu exrpd -n1000 -ocat

SnapShot Testnet updated every 3d (Archive)

https://server-3.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/

cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop exrpd
cp $HOME/.exrpd/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.exrpd/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.exrpd/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-3.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/ | grep -oE 'xrpl-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-3.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-3.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.exrpd
mv $HOME/.exrpd/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.exrpd/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.exrpd/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Testnet/Xrpl/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart exrpd && journalctl -fu exrpd -n1000 -ocat

Start

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable exrpd
sudo systemctl restart exrpd && journalctl -fu exrpd -n1000 -ocat

Create validator

#pubkey
exrpd tendermint show-validator --home $HOME/.exrpd
cd $HOME
nano $HOME/.exrpd/validator.json
{
  "pubkey": {"#pubkey"},
  "amount": "1000000000000000000axrp",
  "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"
}
exrpd --home $HOME/.exrpd tx staking create-validator $HOME/.exrpd/validator.json --from WalletName  --chain-id xrplevm_1449000-1 -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 exrpd
sudo systemctl disable exrpd
rm /etc/systemd/system/exrpd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf exrpd
rm -rf .exrpd
rm -rf $(which exrpd)