Install

Recommended Hardware: 6 Cores, 16GB RAM, 400GB of storage (NVME)

Chain ID: aeneid | Version: geth v1.2.0 | storyd v1.4.2

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 $HOME
ver="1.24.6" && \
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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

Automatic installation

Just copy and paste it on your server

source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chaindigital/story/main/installtestnet.sh)

Set the variables

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

Download binary files

cd $HOME
rm -rf story-geth
git clone https://github.com/piplabs/story-geth.git
cd story-geth
git checkout v1.2.0
make geth
mv build/bin/geth  $HOME/go/bin/

Install Story

cd $HOME
rm -rf story
git clone https://github.com/piplabs/story
cd story
git checkout v1.4.2
go build -o story ./client 
mkdir -p $HOME/go/bin/
mv $HOME/story/story $HOME/go/bin/

Initialize the node

story init $MONIKER --network aeneid

Set node configuration

# download genesis and addrbook
wget -O $HOME/.story/story/config/genesis.json https://testnets.chaindigital.io/story/genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.story/story/config/addrbook.json https://testnets.chaindigital.io/story/addrbook.json

# set seeds and peers
SEEDS=""
PEERS="[e-mail]:26656,[email protected]:40656,[email protected]:36656,[email protected]:26698,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:27206,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:43656,[email protected]:26686,[email protected]:36656,[email protected]:36656,[email protected]:11656,[email protected]:21656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:11656"
sed -i -e "/^\[p2p\]/,/^\[/{s/^[[:space:]]*seeds *=.*/seeds = \"$SEEDS\"/}" \
       -e "/^\[p2p\]/,/^\[/{s/^[[:space:]]*persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"/}" $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml

# enable prometheus and disable indexing
sed -i -e "s/prometheus = false/prometheus = true/" $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"null\"/" $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml

Create getch service file

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/story-geth.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Story Geth daemon
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$HOME/go/bin/geth --aeneid --syncmode full --http --http.api eth,net,web3,engine --http.vhosts '*' --http.addr 0.0.0.0 --http.port ${STORY_PORT}545 --authrpc.port ${STORY_PORT}551 --ws --ws.api eth,web3,net,txpool --ws.addr 0.0.0.0 --ws.port ${STORY_PORT}546
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Create story service file

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/story.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Story Service
After=network.target

[Service]
User=$USER
WorkingDirectory=$HOME/.story/story
ExecStart=$(which story) run

Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Download latest chain snapshot

cp $HOME/.story/story/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.story/story/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.story/story/data
curl https://snapshots.chaindigital.tech/story/testnet/snap_story.tar.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.story/story

mv $HOME/.story/story/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.story/story/data/priv_validator_state.json

# unpack Geth snapshot
rm -rf $HOME/.story/geth/aeneid/geth/chaindata
mkdir -p $HOME/.story/geth/aeneid/geth
curl https://snapshots.chaindigital.tech/story/testnet/snap_geth_story.tar.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.story/geth/aeneid/geth

Start service and check the logs

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable story story-geth
sudo systemctl restart story-geth && sleep 5 && sudo systemctl restart story
journalctl -u story -u story-geth -f

Create validator

View your validator key

story validator export

Export EVM private key

story validator export --export-evm-key

View EVM private key and make a key backup

cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt

curl localhost:$(sed -n '/\[rpc\]/,/laddr/ { /laddr/ {s/.*://; s/".*//; p} }' $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml)/status | jq

Create validator, locked

story validator create --stake 1024000000000000000000 --moniker $MONIKER --chain-id 1315 --unlocked=false

Create validator, unlocked

story validator create --stake 1024000000000000000000 --moniker $MONIKER --chain-id 1315 --unlocked=true

Remember to backup your validator priv_key from here:

cat $HOME/.story/story/config/priv_validator_key.json