Installation Node

  • Network Type: Testnet
  • Chain-id: elystestnet-1
  • Current Node version: v0.9.0

    • 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 1.19.7 If you already have GO installed you can skip this

    ver="1.19.7"
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/elys-network/elys
cd elys
git checkout v0.9.0
make install

    Initialize Node

    Please change <MONIKER> To your own Moniker.

    elysd init $MONIKER --chain-id elystestnet-1
elysd config chain-id elystestnet-1
elysd config keyring-backend test

    Download Genesis file and addrbook

    • Genesis
    wget -O $HOME/.elys/config/genesis.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elys-network/elys/main/chain/genesis.json

    Configure Seeds and Peers

    sed -i 's/seeds = ""/seeds = "ade4d8bc8cbe014af6ebdf3cb7b1e9ad36f412c0@testnet-seeds.polkachu.com:22056"/' ~/.elys/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s|^minimum-gas-prices *=.*|minimum-gas-prices = \"0uelys\"|" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml

    config pruning

    PRUNING="custom"
PRUNING_KEEP_RECENT="100"
PRUNING_INTERVAL="19"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$PRUNING\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \
\"$PRUNING_KEEP_RECENT\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \
\"$PRUNING_INTERVAL\"/" $HOME/.elys/config/app.toml

    create service file and start node

    Create service file Create a elysd.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/elysd.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=elys-testnet
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which elysd) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
    • Enable Service and Start Node
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable elysd
sudo systemctl restart elysd && sudo journalctl -u elysd -f -o cat

    Create Validator

    Heads up to the Cheat Sheets to create validator