Installation Node

Hardware requirements

The following requirements are recommended for running Defund:

4 or more physical CPU cores
At least 200GB of SSD disk storage
At least 8GB of memory (RAM)
At least 100mbps network bandwidth

Install dependencies Required

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential bsdmainutils git make ncdu gcc git jq chrony liblz4-tool -y

Install go

We are gonna use GO Version 1.20.6 If you already have GO installed you can skip this

ver="1.20.6"
cd $HOME
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
go version

Install binary

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/CascadiaFoundation/cascadia.git
cd cascadia
git checkout v0.1.9
make install

Verify that you’ve installed cascadiad successfully

cascadiad version

Initialize Node

Please change <YOUR_MONIKER> To your own Moniker.

cascadiad init $MONIKER --chain-id cascadia_11029-1
cascadiad config chain-id cascadia_11029-1
cascadiad config keyring-backend test

Download Genesis file and addrbook

Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.cascadiad/config/genesis.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vinjan23/Testnet.Guide/main/Cascadia/genesis.json"

Addrbook

wget -O $HOME/.cascadiad/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vinjan23/Testnet.Guide/main/Cascadia/addrbook.json"

Configure Seeds and Peers and Gas

sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.025aCC\"/;" ~/.cascadiad/config/app.toml
peers="d1ed80e232fc2f3742637daacab454e345bbe475@54.204.246.120:26656,0c96a6c328eb58d1467afff4130ab446c294108c@34.239.67.55:26656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.cascadiad/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.cascadiad/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.cascadiad/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.cascadiad/config/config.toml

config pruning

pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="100"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.cascadiad/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.cascadiad/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.cascadiad/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.cascadiad/config/app.toml

create service file and start node

Create service file Create a cascadiad.service file in the /etc/systemd/system folder with the following code. You can change USER with your Linux user name. You need sudo previlege to do this step.

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

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which cascadiad) start --chain-id=cascadia_11029-1
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable cascadiad


### Download Latest Snapshot

curl -L https://snap.vinjan.xyz/cascadia/cascadia-snapshot-20231207.tar.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.cascadiad sudo systemctl restart cascadiad journalctl -fu cascadiad -o cat

Create Validator

Heads up to the Cheat Sheets to create validator