Installation

Setting up your validator node has never been so easy. Get your validator running in minutes by following step by step instructions.

Network: Mainnet | Chain ID: bitcanna-1 | Version: v3.0.0

Setup validator name

Replace YOUR_MONIKER_GOES_HERE with your validator name

MONIKER="YOUR_MONIKER_GOES_HERE"

Install dependencies

Update system and install build tools

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install make build-essential gcc git jq chrony lz4 -y

Install Go (Golang)

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
curl -Ls https://go.dev/dl/go1.21.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzf - -C /usr/local
eval $(echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/golang.sh)
eval $(echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin' | tee -a $HOME/.profile)

Download and build binaries

Clone project repository

cd $HOME
rm -rf bcna
git clone https://github.com/BitCannaGlobal/bcna.git
cd bcna
git checkout v3.0.0

Build binaries

make build

Prepare binaries for Cosmovisor

mkdir -p $HOME/.bcna/cosmovisor/genesis/bin
mv build/bcnad $HOME/.bcna/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/
rm -rf build

Create application symlinks

sudo ln -s $HOME/.bcna/cosmovisor/genesis $HOME/.bcna/cosmovisor/current -f
sudo ln -s $HOME/.bcna/cosmovisor/current/bin/bcnad /usr/local/bin/bcnad -f

Install Cosmovisor and create a service

Download and install Cosmovisor

go install cosmossdk.io/tools/cosmovisor/cmd/cosmovisor@v1.5.0

Create service

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/bcnad.service > /dev/null << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Bitcanna Node Service
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which cosmovisor) run start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
LimitNOFILE=65535
Environment="DAEMON_HOME=$HOME/.bcna"
Environment="DAEMON_NAME=bcnad"
Environment="UNSAFE_SKIP_BACKUP=true"
Environment="PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:$HOME/.bcna/cosmovisor/current/bin"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Register service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable bcnad

Initialize the node

Set node configuration

bcnad config chain-id bitcanna-1
bcnad config keyring-backend file
bcnad config node tcp://localhost:11357

Initialize the node

bcnad init $MONIKER --chain-id bitcanna-1

Download genesis and addrbook

curl -Ls https://ss-bitcanna.sxlmnwb.xyz/mainnet/genesis.json > $HOME/.bcna/config/genesis.json
curl -Ls https://ss-bitcanna.sxlmnwb.xyz/mainnet/addrbook.json > $HOME/.bcna/config/addrbook.json

Set peers and seeds

PEERS="[e-mail]:11356"
SEEDS="[e-mail]:11356"
sed -i -e "s|^persistent_peers *=.*|persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"|" $HOME/.bcna/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s|^seeds *=.*|seeds = \"$SEEDS\"|" $HOME/.bcna/config/config.toml

Set minimum gas price

sed -i -e "s|^minimum-gas-prices *=.*|minimum-gas-prices = \"0ubcna\"|" $HOME/.bcna/config/app.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/.bcna/config/app.toml

Set custom ports

CUSTOM_CUSTOM_PORT=113
sed -i.bak -e "s%^proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26658\"%proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:${CUSTOM_PORT}658\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26657\"%laddr = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:${CUSTOM_PORT}657\"%; s%^pprof_laddr = \"localhost:6060\"%pprof_laddr = \"localhost:${CUSTOM_PORT}060\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:26656\"%laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}656\"%; s%^prometheus_listen_addr = \":26660\"%prometheus_listen_addr = \":${CUSTOM_PORT}660\"%" $HOME/.bcna/config/config.toml
sed -i.bak -e "s%^address = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:1317\"%address = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}317\"%; s%^address = \":8080\"%address = \":${CUSTOM_PORT}080\"%; s%^address = \"0.0.0.0:9090\"%address = \"0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}090\"%; s%^address = \"0.0.0.0:9091\"%address = \"0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}091\"%" $HOME/.bcna/config/app.toml

Download latest chain snapshot

curl -L https://ss-bitcanna.sxlmnwb.xyz/mainnet/snapshot_latest.tar.lz4 | tar -Ilz4 -xf - -C $HOME/.bcna
[[ -f $HOME/.bcna/data/upgrade-info.json ]] && cp $HOME/.bcna/data/upgrade-info.json $HOME/.bcna/cosmovisor/genesis/upgrade-info.json

Start service

sudo systemctl start bcnad

Check service logs

sudo journalctl -fu bcnad -o cat