Setting up a validator

How to set up a validator in shentud

Pre-Requisites

A validator can be run on a VPS or Dedicated server/VM Minimum requirements: 4 physical core CPU Memory: 8GB+ Disk: SSD - 500GB+ Ubuntu 18.04 +

Make sure to create/import a cli wallet before trying to publish the node.

Setting up the Validator from scratch

1. Download the latest release This can be found at : https://github.com/shentufoundation/shentu/releases

2. Run the shentud binary to

3. Download the new genesis.

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ShentuChain/mainnet/main/shentu-2.2/genesis.json.

4. Place the genesis under .shentud/config

   mv genesis.json ~/.shentud/config/genesis.json

5. Add the seed nodes in config/config.toml. These can be found at : https://github.com/shentufoundation/mainnet/blob/main/shentu-2.2/seeds.txt

   example :

   seeds = "bc9bbcae77a09b41417f597965f6fcbb8b280892@52.71.99.85,fd2944af442b18dab4ce50d8e001816a38490d56@54.158.108.97,[e-mail]:36656"

6. Download the snapshot:

   1. Official Shentu Snapshot https://shentu-data-snapshot-light.s3.amazonaws.com/shentu.tar.gz

   2. Community member snapshots. https://polkachu.com/tendermint_snapshots/shentu https://valhalla.panthea.eu/snapshots/shentu-snapshot.tar.lz4

7. Unzip/Unpack the snapshot into your .shentud directory.

8. Start shentud daemon.

9. (Optional) Run Shentud daemon as a system service

   save the following content as shentud.service under /etc/systemd/system/

   [Unit]
   Description=Shentud Daemon
   After=network-online.target
   
   [Service]
   User=ubuntu
   ExecStart=/home/ubuntu/shentud start --home /home/ubuntu/.shentud
   Restart=always
   RestartSec=3
   LimitNOFILE=4096
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target

   remember to replace the User to your corresponding username. remember to replace the ExecStart to your corresponding path.

10. Enable and start shentud system service.

    sudo systemctl enable shentud
    sudo systemctl start shentud

11. If you see that you are on the height of the chain (check log) you can progress with publishing your validator to the chain.

12. Make sure you have a wallet imported or created. See Creating a CLI wallet

13. Keep in mind that the minimum staked amount is 1 CTK this is 1000000uctk

    example:

    shentud tx staking create-validator \
    --amount <your-amount-to-stake>uctk \
    --commission-max-change-rate 0.01 \
    --commission-max-rate 0.2 \
    --commission-rate 0.1 \
    --from <your-wallet-name> \
    --min-self-delegation 1 \
    --moniker <your-moniker> \
    --pubkey $(shentud tendermint show-validator) \
    --chain-id shentu-2.2 \
    --fees 5000uctk