Installation

Minimum Hardware Requirements 4x CPUs; the faster clock speed the better 8GB RAM 100GB of storage (SSD or NVME)

Setup validator name

MONIKER="YOUR_MONIKER_GOES_HERE"

Install dependencies

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install git curl build-essential make jq gcc snapd chrony lz4 tmux unzip bc -y

INSTALL GO

rm -rf $HOME/go
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
cd $HOME
curl https://dl.google.com/go/1.21.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -C/usr/local -zxvf -
cat <<'EOF' >>$HOME/.profile
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GO111MODULE=on
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin
EOF
source $HOME/.profile
go version

Install Node

cd $HOME
sudo wget -O /usr/lib/libwasmvm.x86_64.so https://github.com/CosmWasm/wasmvm/releases/download/v3.0.0/libwasmvm.x86_64.so
wget https://snapshots.aknodes.net/snapshots/mantrachain/mantrachaind-linux-amd64.zip
unzip mantrachaind-linux-amd64.zip
rm mantrachaind-linux-amd64.zip
mv mantrachaind $HOME/go/bin

Initialize Node

mantrachaind init "$MONIKER" --chain-id=mantra-hongbai-1

Download genesis and addrbook

curl -Ls https://snapshots.aknodes.net/snapshots/mantrachain/genesis.json > $HOME/.mantrachain/config/genesis.json

curl -Ls https://snapshots.aknodes.net/snapshots/mantrachain/addrbook.json > $HOME/.mantrachain/config/addrbook.json

Create Service

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/mantrachaind.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=mantrachaind Daemon
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which mantrachaind) start
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable mantrachaind

Download Snapshot

mantrachaind tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.mantrachain --keep-addr-book 
curl https://snapshots.aknodes.net/snapshots/mantrachain/snapshot-mantrachain.AKNodes.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.mantrachain

Start the node

sudo systemctl restart mantrachaind
journalctl -u mantrachaind -f

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