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Setup Server on GOOGLE CLOUD

• Minimum hardware requirements:

Node Type	CPU	RAM	Storage
Testnet	4	8GB	150GB

1) Manual installation

Preparing the server

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

GO 1.19

ver="1.19" && \
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

Build 10.11.22

git clone -b v0.1.0 https://github.com/neutron-org/neutron.git
cd neutron
make install

neutrond version --head

• version: 0.1.0

• commit: a9e8ba5ebb9230bec97a4f2826d75a4e0e6130d9

neutrond init $NODENAME --chain-id quark-1

Create/recover wallet

neutrond keys add <walletname>
              or
neutrond keys add <walletname> --recover

Download Genesis

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neutron-org/testnets/main/quark/genesis.json > ~/.neutrond/config/genesis.json

sha256sum $HOME/.neutrond/config/genesis.json

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Set up the minimum gas price and Peers/Seeds/Filter peers/MaxPeers

sed -i -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0untrn\"/" $HOME/.neutrond/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml
peers="[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:2480,[email protected]:46656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:51656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:40006,[email protected]:55256,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml
seeds="[email protected]:26656,[e-mail]:29001"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s/^timeout_commit *=.*/timeout_commit = \"2s\"/" $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 100/g' $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 100/g' $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml

Pruning (optional)

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

Indexer (optional)

indexer="null" && \
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml

Download addrbook

wget -O $HOME/.neutrond/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/konsortech/Node/main/Neutron/addrbook.json"

Create a service file

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

StateSync

SNAP_RPC=http://neutron.rpc.t.stavr.tech:11057
peers="[e-mail]:11056"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s $SNAP_RPC/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height); \
BLOCK_HEIGHT=$((LATEST_HEIGHT - 500)); \
TRUST_HASH=$(curl -s "$SNAP_RPC/block?height=$BLOCK_HEIGHT" | jq -r .result.block_id.hash)

echo $LATEST_HEIGHT $BLOCK_HEIGHT $TRUST_HASH

sed -i.bak -E "s|^(enable[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1true| ; \
s|^(rpc_servers[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$SNAP_RPC,$SNAP_RPC\"| ; \
s|^(trust_height[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1$BLOCK_HEIGHT| ; \
s|^(trust_hash[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$TRUST_HASH\"| ; \
s|^(seeds[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"\"|" $HOME/.neutrond/config/config.toml
neutrond tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.neutrond --keep-addr-book

Start

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable neutrond
sudo systemctl restart neutrond && sudo journalctl -u neutrond -f -o cat

Create validator

neutrond tx staking create-validator \
  --amount 1000000untrn \
  --from <<walletName>> \
  --commission-max-change-rate "0.1" \
  --commission-max-rate "0.2" \
  --commission-rate "0.1" \
  --min-self-delegation "1" \
  --pubkey  $(neutrond tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker STAVRguide \
  --chain-id quark-1 \
  --identity="" \
  --details="" \
  --website="" -y

Sync Info

neutrond status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

NodeINfo

neutrond status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo

Check node logs

sudo journalctl -u neutrond -f -o cat

Check Balance

neutrond query bank balances neutron...address23947h2i32873t

Delete node

sudo systemctl stop neutrond && \
sudo systemctl disable neutrond && \
rm /etc/systemd/system/neutrond.service && \
sudo systemctl daemon-reload && \
cd $HOME && \
rm -rf neutron && \
rm -rf .neutrond && \
rm -rf $(which neutrond)