Installation

Setup validator name

MONIKER="YOUR_MONIKER_GOES_HERE"

Install dependencies

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install git curl build-essential make jq gcc snapd chrony lz4 tmux unzip bc -y

INSTALL GO

rm -rf $HOME/go
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
cd $HOME
curl https://dl.google.com/go/go1.20.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -C/usr/local -zxvf -
cat <<'EOF' >>$HOME/.profile
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GO111MODULE=on
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin
EOF
source $HOME/.profile
go version

Install Node

cd $HOME

mkdir -p /root/go/bin/

wget https://snapshots.aknodes.net/snapshots/arkeod

chmod +x arkeod

mv arkeod /root/go/bin/

arkeod version

Initialize Node

arkeod init "$MONIKER" --chain-id=arkeo

Download genesis and addrbook

curl -Ls https://snapshots.ndnodes.com/snapshots/arkeo/genesis.json > $HOME/.arkeo/config/genesis.json
curl -Ls https://snapshots.ndnodes.com/snapshots/arkeo/addrbook.json > $HOME/.arkeo/config/addrbook.json

Create Service

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/arkeod.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=arkeod Daemon
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which arkeod) start
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable arkeod

Download Snapshot

arkeod tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.arkeo --keep-addr-book 
curl https://snapshots.ndnodes.com/snapshots/arkeo/snapshot-arkeo.ndnodes.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.arkeo

Start the node

sudo systemctl restart arkeod
journalctl -u arkeod -f

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