Install

Recommended Hardware: 8 Cores, 16GB RAM, 250GB of storage (NVME)

Chain ID: provider | Latest Version Tag: v25.1.0

Dependencies Installation

Update system and install build tools

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl git wget htop tmux build-essential jq make lz4 gcc unzip -y

Install GO

cd $HOME
ver="1.24.2" && \
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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

Manual installation

Come up with the name of your node and replace it instead <your_moniker>

MONIKER=<your_moniker>

Download binary files

# Clone project repository
cd $HOME
rm -rf gaia
git clone https://github.com/cosmos/gaia.git
cd gaia
git checkout v25.1.0

# Build binaries
make build

# Prepare binaries for Cosmovisor
mkdir -p $HOME/.gaia/cosmovisor/genesis/bin
mv build/gaiad $HOME/.gaia/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/

# Create application symlinks
sudo ln -s $HOME/.gaia/cosmovisor/genesis $HOME/.gaia/cosmovisor/current -f
sudo ln -s $HOME/.gaia/cosmovisor/current/bin/gaiad /usr/local/bin/gaiad -f

Initialize the node

# config and init app
gaiad config chain-id provider
gaiad config keyring-backend test
gaiad config node tcp://localhost:26657

gaiad init $MONIKER --chain-id provider

Set node configuration

# download genesis and addrbook
curl -Ls https://snapshots.kjnodes.com/cosmoshub-testnet/genesis.json > $HOME/.gaia/config/genesis.json
curl -Ls https://snapshots.kjnodes.com/cosmoshub-testnet/addrbook.json > $HOME/.gaia/config/addrbook.json

# Add seeds
sed -i -e "s|^seeds *=.*|seeds = \"[e-mail]:13459\"|" $HOME/.gaia/config/config.toml

# Set minimum gas price
sed -i -e "s|^minimum-gas-prices *=.*|minimum-gas-prices = \"0.005uatom\"|" $HOME/.gaia/config/app.toml

# Set pruning
sed -i \
  -e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "custom"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-recent *=.*|pruning-keep-recent = "100"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-every *=.*|pruning-keep-every = "0"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-interval *=.*|pruning-interval = "19"|' \
  $HOME/.gaia/config/app.toml

Create a service

# Download and install Cosmovisor
go install cosmossdk.io/tools/cosmovisor/cmd/[email protected]

# Create service
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/gaiad.service > /dev/null << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Cosmoshub testnet node service
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which cosmovisor) run start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
LimitNOFILE=65535
Environment="DAEMON_HOME=$HOME/.gaia"
Environment="DAEMON_NAME=gaiad"
Environment="UNSAFE_SKIP_BACKUP=true"
Environment="PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:$HOME/.gaia/cosmovisor/current/bin"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable gaiad

Start service and check the logs

sudo systemctl restart gaiad && sudo journalctl -u gaiad -f --no-hostname -o cat

Create wallet

# to create a new wallet, use the following command. don’t forget to save the mnemonic
gaiad keys add wallet

# to restore exexuting wallet, use the following command
gaiad keys add wallet --recover

# list all keys
gaiad keys list

# before creating a validator, you need to fund your wallet and check balance
gaiad q bank balances $(gaiad keys show wallet -a)

Create validator

gaiad tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000uatom \
--pubkey $(gaiad tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
--identity "YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--details "YOUR_DETAILS" \
--website "YOUR_WEBSITE_URL" \
--chain-id provider \
--commission-rate 0.05 \
--commission-max-rate 0.20 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.05 \
--min-self-delegation 1 \
--from wallet \
--gas-adjustment 1.4 \
--gas auto \
--gas-prices 0.005uatom \
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