Installation

Dependencies Installation

# Install dependencies for building from source
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y curl git jq lz4 build-essential

# Install Go
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
curl -L https://go.dev/dl/go1.21.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzf - -C /usr/local
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin' >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source .bash_profile

Node Installation

# Clone project repository
cd && rm -rf initia
git clone https://github.com/initia-labs/initia
cd initia
git checkout v0.2.14

# Build binary
make install

# Set node CLI configuration
initiad config set client chain-id initiation-1
initiad config set client keyring-backend test
initiad config set client node tcp://localhost:25757

# Initialize the node
initiad init "Your Moniker" --chain-id initiation-1

# Download genesis and addrbook files
curl -L https://sync.rawakinode.tech/initia/genesis.json > $HOME/.initia/config/genesis.json
curl -L https://sync.rawakinode.tech/initia/addrbook.json > $HOME/.initia/config/addrbook.json

# Set seeds
sed -i -e 's|^seeds *=.*|seeds = "2eaa272622d1ba6796100ab39f58c75d458b9dbc@34.142.181.82:26656,[e-mail]:25756,[e-mail]:51656,093e1b89a498b6a8760ad2188fbda30a05e4f300@35.240.207.217:26656,2c729d33d22d8cdae6658bed97b3097241ca586c@195.14.6.129:26019"|' $HOME/.initia/config/config.toml

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

# Set pruning
sed -i \
  -e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "custom"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-recent *=.*|pruning-keep-recent = "100"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-interval *=.*|pruning-interval = "17"|' \
  $HOME/.initia/config/app.toml

# Change ports
sed -i -e "s%:1317%:25717%; s%:8080%:25780%; s%:9090%:25790%; s%:9091%:25791%; s%:8545%:25745%; s%:8546%:25746%; s%:6065%:25765%" $HOME/.initia/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s%:26658%:25758%; s%:26657%:25757%; s%:6060%:25760%; s%:26656%:25756%; s%:26660%:25761%" $HOME/.initia/config/config.toml

# Download latest chain data snapshot
curl "https://snapshots-testnet.nodejumper.io/initia-testnet/initia-testnet_latest.tar.lz4" | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C "$HOME/.initia"

# Create a service
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/initiad.service > /dev/null << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Initia node service
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which initiad) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable initiad.service

# Start the service and check the logs
sudo systemctl start initiad.service
sudo journalctl -u initiad.service -f --no-hostname -o cat