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Installation

Minimum hardware requirement​

4 Cores, 8G Ram, 160G SSD, Ubuntu 22.04

Server preparation​

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

Install GO​

if ! which go ; then
#Install GO
ver="1.23.4"
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
fi

Download and build binaries​

cd $HOME
rm -rf shentu
git clone https://github.com/shentufoundation/shentu
cd shentu
git checkout v2.14.1
make install
shentud version

Set vars​

echo "export SHENTU_PORT="16"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Initialize the node​

shentud init NodeName --chain-id shentu-2.2
sed -i "s/chain-id = .*/chain-id = \"shentu-2.2\"/" $HOME/.shentud/config/client.toml
sed -i "s/keyring-backend = .*/keyring-backend = \"os\"/" $HOME/.shentud/config/client.toml
sed -i "s/node = .*/node = \"tcp:\/\/localhost:${SHENTU_PORT}657\"/" $HOME/.shentud/config/client.toml
# Download genesis and addrbook files
curl -Ls https://snapshots.nodesync.top/Mainnet/Shentu/genesis.json > $HOME/.shentud/config/genesis.json 
curl -Ls https://snapshots.nodesync.top/Mainnet/Shentu/addrbook.json> $HOME/.shentud/config/addrbook.json
# Set seeds & peers
SEEDS="[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656"
PEERS="[email protected]:14056,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:46656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:14056,[email protected]:15607,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:15604,[email protected]:15607,[email protected]:28656,[email protected]:14056,[email protected]:20656,[email protected]:15604"
sed -i 's|^seeds *=.*|seeds = "'$SEEDS'"|; s|^persistent_peers *=.*|persistent_peers = "'$PEERS'"|' $HOME/.shentud/config/config.toml

# Set minimum gas price
sed -i "s/minimum-gas-prices = .*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0uctk\"/" $HOME/.shentud/config/app.toml

# Set pruning
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"custom\"/" $HOME/.shentud/config/app.toml 
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"100\"/" $HOME/.shentud/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"50\"/" $HOME/.shentud/config/app.toml

# Enable prometheus
sed -i -e 's|^prometheus *=.*|prometheus = true|' $HOME/.shentud/config/config.toml
# Change ports
sed -i.bak -e "s%:1317%:${SHENTU_PORT}317%g;
s%:8080%:${SHENTU_PORT}080%g;
s%:9090%:${SHENTU_PORT}090%g;
s%:9091%:${SHENTU_PORT}091%g;
s%:8545%:${SHENTU_PORT}545%g;
s%:8546%:${SHENTU_PORT}546%g;
s%:6065%:${SHENTU_PORT}065%g" $HOME/.shentud/config/app.toml
sed -i.bak -e "s%:26658%:${SHENTU_PORT}658%g;
s%:26657%:${SHENTU_PORT}657%g;
s%:6060%:${SHENTU_PORT}060%g;
s%:26656%:${SHENTU_PORT}656%g;
s%^external_address = \"\"%external_address = \"$(wget -qO- eth0.me):${SHENTU_PORT}656\"%;
s%:26660%:${SHENTU_PORT}660%g" $HOME/.shentud/config/config.toml
# Download latest chain data snapshot
curl https://snapshots.nodesync.top/Mainnet/Shentu/shentu_snap.tar.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C "$HOME/.shentud"

Create Service and Start node​

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/shentud.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Shentu Chain Validator
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which shentud) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable shentud
sudo systemctl restart shentud
sudo journalctl -u shentud -f --no-hostname -o cat