Installation Node
Hardware requirements
The following requirements are recommended for running :
- 16 or more VCPU cores
- At least 1 TB of SSD disk storage
- At least 64 GB 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
ver="1.22.2"
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
rm -rf kiichain
git clone https://github.com/KiiChain/kiichain.git
cd kiichain
git checkout v2.0.0
make install
Initialize Node
Please change <MONIKER>
To your own Moniker.
kiichaind init <MONIKER> --chain-id kiichain3
kiichaind config chain-id kiichain3
kiichaind config keyring-backend test
Download Genesis file
wget -O $HOME/.kiichain3/config/genesis.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KiiChain/testnets/refs/heads/main/testnet_oro/genesis.json
Configure Peers
persistent_peers="c541892972a552bdb6402ae6e2a4d9812021f39c@88.99.162.99:19656,5b6aa55124c0fd28e47d7da091a69973964a9fe1@uno.sentry.testnet.v3.kiivalidator.com:26656,5e6b283c8879e8d1b0866bda20949f9886aff967@dos.sentry.testnet.v3.kiivalidator.com:26656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$persistent_peers\"/" $HOME/.kiichain3/config/config.toml
Enable DB
sed -i.bak -e "s|^occ-enabled *=.*|occ-enabled = true|" $HOME/.kiichain3/config/app.toml
sed -i.bak -e "s|^sc-enable *=.*|sc-enable = true|" $HOME/.kiichain3/config/app.toml
sed -i.bak -e "s|^ss-enable *=.*|ss-enable = true|" $HOME/.kiichain3/config/app.toml
sed -i.bak -e 's/^# concurrency-workers = 20$/concurrency-workers = 500/' $HOME/.kiichain3/config/app.toml
sed -i 's/mode = "full"/mode = "validator"/g' $HOME/.kiichain3/config/config.toml
Set Prunning
sed -i \
-e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "nothing"|' \
$HOME/.kiichain3/config/app.toml
Indexer Off
sed -i 's|^indexer *=.*|indexer = "null"|' $HOME/.kiichain3/config/config.toml
Create service file
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/kiichaind.service > /dev/null << EOF
[Unit]
Description=kiichain
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which kiichaind) start
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
Enable Service and Start Node
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable kiichaind
Use Statesync to faster sync
Check Sync ( If False than go to create validator )
kiichaind status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo
Create Validator
Heads up to the Cheat Sheets to create validator