Initia

Chain ID	Latest Version Tag
initiation-1	v0.2.21

Hardware/OS Requirements

The minimum hardware requirements for running an Initia node are:

• CPU: 16 cores

• Memory: 32GB RAM

• Disk: 2 TB NVMe/SSD Storage with Write Throughput > 1000 MiBps

• Bandwidth: 100 Mbps

Install required packages

sudo apt update && \
sudo apt install curl git jq build-essential gcc unzip wget lz4 -y

Install Go

cd $HOME && \
ver="1.22.0" && \
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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

git clone https://github.com/initia-labs/initia.git
cd initia
git checkout v0.2.21
make install

# Customize if you need
echo 'export MONIKER="My_Node"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export CHAIN_ID="initiation-1"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export WALLET_NAME="wallet"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export RPC_PORT="26657"' >> ~/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Initialize the node

cd $HOME
initiad init $MONIKER --chain-id $CHAIN_ID
initiad config set client chain-id $CHAIN_ID
initiad config set client node tcp://localhost:$RPC_PORT
initiad config set client keyring-backend os # You can set it to "test" so you will not be asked for a password

wget https://initia.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/initiation-1/genesis.json -O $HOME/.initia/config/genesis.json

Add seeds and peers

PEERS="[email protected]:30656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:53456,[email protected]:26313,[email protected]:25756,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:53456,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:19656,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:53456,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:53456,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:36656,[email protected]:53456,[email protected]:53456,[email protected]:26656,[email protected]:26656" && \
SEEDS="[email protected]:26656,[e-mail]:25756" && \
sed -i \
    -e "s/^seeds *=.*/seeds = \"$SEEDS\"/" \
    -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"/" \
    "$HOME/.initia/config/config.toml"

Configure prunning

sed -i \
    -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"custom\"/" \
    -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"100\"/" \
    -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"10\"/" \
    "$HOME/.initia/config/app.toml"

sed -i -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.15uinit,0.01uusdc\"/" $HOME/.initia/config/app.toml

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

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/initiad.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Initia Node
After=network.target

[Service]
User=$USER
Type=simple
ExecStart=$(which initiad) start --home $HOME/.initia
Restart=on-failure
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

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