Install

Recommended Hardware: 8 Cores, 16GB RAM, 250GB of storage (NVME)

Chain ID: lava-mainnet-1 | Latest Version Tag: v5.3.0

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 $HOME
ver="1.24.2" && \
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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

Manual installation

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

MONIKER=<your_moniker>

Download binary files

cd $HOME
rm -rf lava
git clone https://github.com/lavanet/lava.git
cd lava
git checkout v5.3.0
make install-all

Initialize the node

# config and init app
lavad config chain-id lava-mainnet-1
lavad config keyring-backend file
lavad config node tcp://localhost:26657

lavad init $MONIKER --chain-id lava-mainnet-1

Set node configuration

# download genesis and addrbook
curl -Ls https://snapshots.kjnodes.com/lava/genesis.json > $HOME/.lava/config/genesis.json
curl -Ls https://snapshots.kjnodes.com/lava/addrbook.json > $HOME/.lava/config/addrbook.json

# Add seeds
sed -i -e "s|^seeds *=.*|seeds = \"[e-mail]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26666,[e-mail]:26107,[email protected]:11156,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26649,[email protected]:26656\"|" $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml

# Add peers
peers="[email protected]:15656,[email protected]:37656,[email protected]:28656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:14456,[email protected]:40004,[email protected]:19956,[email protected]:26656"
sed -i -e "s|^persistent_peers *=.*|persistent_peers = \"$peers\"|" $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml

# Set minimum gas price
sed -i -e "s|^minimum-gas-prices *=.*|minimum-gas-prices = \"0.000000001ulava\"|" $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml

# Settings
sed -i \
-e 's/timeout_propose = .*/timeout_propose = "1s"/' \
-e 's/timeout_propose_delta = .*/timeout_propose_delta = "500ms"/' \
-e 's/timeout_prevote = .*/timeout_prevote = "1s"/' \
-e 's/timeout_prevote_delta = .*/timeout_prevote_delta = "500ms"/' \
-e 's/timeout_precommit = .*/timeout_precommit = "500ms"/' \
-e 's/timeout_precommit_delta = .*/timeout_precommit_delta = "1s"/' \
-e 's/timeout_commit = .*/timeout_commit = "15s"/' \
-e 's/^create_empty_blocks = .*/create_empty_blocks = true/' \
-e 's/^create_empty_blocks_interval = .*/create_empty_blocks_interval = "15s"/' \
-e 's/^timeout_broadcast_tx_commit = .*/timeout_broadcast_tx_commit = "151s"/' \
-e 's/skip_timeout_commit = .*/skip_timeout_commit = false/' \
$HOME/.lava/config/config.toml

# Set pruning
sed -i \
  -e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "custom"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-recent *=.*|pruning-keep-recent = "100"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-every *=.*|pruning-keep-every = "0"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-interval *=.*|pruning-interval = "19"|' \
  $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml

Create a service

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/lavad.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Lava node
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
WorkingDirectory=$HOME/.lava
ExecStart=$(which lavad) start --home $HOME/.lava
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable lavad

Download latest chain snapshot

curl -L https://snapshots.kjnodes.com/lava/snapshot_latest.tar.lz4 | tar -Ilz4 -xf - -C $HOME/.lava

Start service and check the logs

sudo systemctl start lavad && sudo journalctl -u lavad -f --no-hostname -o cat

Create wallet

# to create a new wallet, use the following command. don’t forget to save the mnemonic
lavad keys add wallet

# to restore exexuting wallet, use the following command
lavad keys add wallet --recover

# list all keys
lavad keys list

# before creating a validator, you need to fund your wallet and check balance
lavad q bank balances $(lavad keys show wallet -a)

Create validator

lavad tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000ulava \
--pubkey $(lavad tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
--identity "YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--details "YOUR_DETAILS" \
--website "YOUR_WEBSITE_URL" \
--chain-id lava-mainnet-1 \
--commission-rate 0.05 \
--commission-max-rate 0.20 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.01 \
--min-self-delegation 1 \
--from wallet \
--gas-adjustment 1.4 \
--gas auto \
--gas-prices 0.000000001ulava \
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