Installation

Minimum hardware requirement

4-8 Cores, 16G Ram, 500G NVME, Ubuntu 22.04 - 24.04

Installation of required packages

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

Installation GO

cd ~
VER="1.23.4" # Make sure that this version does not broke any other apps you run!
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$VER.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
[ ! -f ~/.bash_profile ] && touch ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:~/go/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
[ ! -d ~/go/bin ] && mkdir -p ~/go/bin

echo "export TERRA_PORT="18"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Downloading and installing node

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/phoenix-directive/core terra
cd terra
git checkout v2.18.1
make install

Set node configuration

terrad init NodeName --chain-id phoenix-1
sed -i "s/chain-id = .*/chain-id = \"phoenix-1\"/" $HOME/.terra/config/client.toml
sed -i "s/keyring-backend = .*/keyring-backend = \"os\"/" $HOME/.terra/config/client.toml
sed -i "s/node = .*/node = \"tcp:\/\/localhost:${TERRA_PORT}657\"/" $HOME/.terra/config/client.toml

Downloading genesis and addressbook

wget -O $HOME/.terra/config/genesis.json https://snapshots.nodesync.top/Mainnet/Terra/genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.terra/config/addrbook.json https://snapshots.nodesync.top/Mainnet/Terra/addrbook.json

# Set seeds and peers

peers="[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:2020,[email protected]:26661,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.terra/config/config.toml

# Set minimum gas price
sed -i "s/minimum-gas-prices = .*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.015uluna\"/" $HOME/.terra/config/app.toml

# Set indexer
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"null\"/" $HOME/.terra/config/config.toml

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

# Change ports
sed -i.bak -e "s%:1317%:${TERRA_PORT}317%g;
s%:8080%:${TERRA_PORT}080%g;
s%:9090%:${TERRA_PORT}090%g;
s%:9091%:${TERRA_PORT}091%g;
s%:8545%:${TERRA_PORT}545%g;
s%:8546%:${TERRA_PORT}546%g;
s%:6065%:${TERRA_PORT}065%g" $HOME/.terra/config/app.toml

sed -i.bak -e "s%:26658%:${TERRA_PORT}658%g;
s%:26657%:${TERRA_PORT}657%g;
s%:6060%:${TERRA_PORT}060%g;
s%:26656%:${TERRA_PORT}656%g;
s%^external_address = \"\"%external_address = \"$(wget -qO- eth0.me):${TERRA_PORT}656\"%;
s%:26660%:${TERRA_PORT}660%g" $HOME/.terra/config/config.toml


# Download latest chain data snapshot
curl -L https://snapshots.nodesync.top/Mainnet/Terra/terra_latest.tar.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.terra

Creating service file

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

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which terrad) start
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable terrad

Start node

sudo systemctl start terrad && sudo journalctl -fu terrad -o cat