Manual Installation
Official Documentation Recommended Hardware: 8 Cores, 16 GB RAM, 500GB of storage (NVME)
# install dependencies, if needed
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl git wget htop tmux build-essential jq make lz4 gcc unzip -y
Node Name
Wallet
Port
# install go, if needed
cd $HOME
VER="1.23.4"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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"
[ ! -f ~/.bash_profile ] && touch ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:~/go/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
[ ! -d ~/go/bin ] && mkdir -p ~/go/bin
# set vars
echo "export WALLET="wallet"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo "export MONIKER="test"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo "export tnam_CHAIN_ID="namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo "export tnam_PORT="11657"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
# download binary
# config and init app
namada config node tcp://localhost:${tnam_PORT}657
namada config keyring-backend os
namada config chain-id namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420
namada init "test" --chain-id namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420
# download genesis and addrbook
wget -O $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/genesis.json https://mainnet-files.mekonglabs.tech/namada/genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/addrbook.json https://mainnet-files.mekonglabs.tech/namada/addrbook.json
# set seeds and peers
SEEDS="904a389dd47dd0af68eb9aa645a605b72ecc22a3@namada-mainnet-seed.mekonglabs.tech:11656"
PEERS="904a389dd47dd0af68eb9aa645a605b72ecc22a3@namada-mainnet-peer.mekonglabs.tech:11656"
sed -i -e "s/^seeds *=.*/seeds = \"$SEEDS\"/; s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"/" $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/config.toml
# set custom ports in app.toml
sed -i.bak -e "s%:1317%:${tnam_PORT}317%g;
s%:8080%:${tnam_PORT}080%g;
s%:9090%:${tnam_PORT}090%g;
s%:9091%:${tnam_PORT}091%g;
s%:8545%:${tnam_PORT}545%g;
s%:8546%:${tnam_PORT}546%g;
s%:6065%:${tnam_PORT}065%g" $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/app.toml
# set custom ports in config.toml file
sed -i.bak -e "s%:26658%:${tnam_PORT}658%g;
s%:26657%:${tnam_PORT}657%g;
s%:6060%:${tnam_PORT}060%g;
s%:26656%:${tnam_PORT}656%g;
s%^external_address = \"\"%external_address = \"$(wget -qO- eth0.me):${tnam_PORT}656\"%;
s%:26660%:${tnam_PORT}660%g" $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/config.toml
# config pruning
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"custom\"/" $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"100\"/" $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"50\"/" $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/app.toml
# set minimum gas price, enable prometheus and disable indexing
sed -i 's|minimum-gas-prices =.*|minimum-gas-prices = ""|g' $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/prometheus = false/prometheus = true/" $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"null\"/" $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420/config/config.toml
# create service file
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/namada.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Namada node
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
WorkingDirectory=$HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420
ExecStart=$(which namada) start --home $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
# reset and download snapshot
namada --home $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420
if curl -s --head curl https://mainnet-files.mekonglabs.tech/namada/snap_namada.tar.lz4 | head -n 1 | grep "200" > /dev/null; then
curl https://mainnet-files.mekonglabs.tech/namada/snap_namada.tar.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420
else
echo no have snap
fi
# enable and start service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable namada
sudo systemctl restart namada && sudo journalctl -u namada -f
Automatic Installation
pruning: | indexer:
source <(curl -s https://mekonglabs.tech/api/mainnet/namada/autoinstall/)
Create wallet
# to create a new wallet, use the following command. don’t forget to save the mnemonic
namada keys add $WALLET
# to restore exexuting wallet, use the following command
namada keys add $WALLET --recover
# save wallet and validator address
WALLET_ADDRESS=$(namada keys show $WALLET -a)
VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(namada keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo "export WALLET_ADDRESS="$WALLET_ADDRESS >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo "export VALOPER_ADDRESS="$VALOPER_ADDRESS >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
# check sync status, once your node is fully synced, the output from above will print "false"
namada status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo
# before creating a validator, you need to fund your wallet and check balance
namada query bank balances $WALLET_ADDRESS
Create validator
Moniker
Identity
Details
Amount, tnam
Commission rate
Commission max rate
Commission max change rate
namada tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000tnam \
--from $WALLET \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.01 \
--min-self-delegation 1 \
--pubkey $(namada tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "test" \
--identity "" \
--details "I love blockchain ❤️" \
--chain-id namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420 \
\
-y
Monitoring
If you want to have set up a monitoring and alert system use our cosmos nodes monitoring guide with tenderduty
Security
To protect you keys please don`t share your privkey, mnemonic and follow a basic security rules
Set up ssh keys for authentication
You can use this guide to configure ssh authentication and disable password authentication on your server
Firewall security
Set the default to allow outgoing connections, deny all incoming, allow ssh and node p2p port
sudo ufw default allow outgoing
sudo ufw default deny incoming
sudo ufw allow ssh/tcp
sudo ufw allow ${tnam_PORT}656/tcp
sudo ufw enable
Delete node
sudo systemctl stop namada
sudo systemctl disable namada
sudo rm -rf /etc/systemd/system/namada.service
sudo rm $(which namada)
sudo rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/namada/namada.5f5de2dd1b88cba30586420
sed -i "/tnam_/d" $HOME/.bash_profile