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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

Downloading and installing node​

wget https://github.com/Limonata-Blockchain/limonata/releases/download/limonata-testnet-v0.2.0/limonatad-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xzf limonatad-linux-amd64.tar.gz
chmod +x limonatad
mv limonatad $HOME/go/bin/limonatad
rm -rf limonatad-linux-amd64.tar.gz
limonatad version --long

Set node configuration​

limonatad init "NodeName" --chain-id limonata_10777-1

Downloading genesis and addressbook​

curl -s https://limonata.xyz/genesis.json -o $HOME/.evmd/config/genesis.json
# Set seeds and peers

peers="[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:19156"
sed -i -e "s|^persistent_peers *=.*|persistent_peers = \"$peers\"|" $HOME/.evmd/config/config.toml

# Set minimum gas price
sed -i -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0aLIMO\"/" $HOME/.evmd/config/app.toml

# Set indexer
sed -i -E "s|type = \".*\"|type = \"app\"|g" $HOME/.evmd/config/config.toml
sed -i 's|^indexer *=.*|indexer = "null"|' $HOME/.evmd/config/config.toml

# Set pruning
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"custom\"/" $HOME/.evmd/config/app.toml 
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"100\"/" $HOME/.evmd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"50\"/" $HOME/.evmd/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.evmd/config/config.toml

# Download latest chain data snapshot
curl -L https://snapshots.nodesync.top/Testnet/Limonata/latest.tar.lz4| lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.evmd

Creating service file​

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/limonatad.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=limonata
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which limonatad) start --chain-id limonata_10777-1 --evm.evm-chain-id 10777 --minimum-gas-prices 0aLIMO
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable limonatad

Start node​

sudo systemctl restart limonatad && sudo journalctl -fu limonatad -o cat