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Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://skyneticlabs.gitbook.io/docs/services/mainnet-networks/lava/installation.md). # Installation Chain ID: lava-mainnet-1 | Latest Version Tag: v5.3.0 *** #### Setup validator name ```bash MONIKER= ``` ### Install dependencies #### Update system and install build tools ```bash sudo apt -q update sudo apt -qy install curl git jq lz4 build-essential sudo apt -qy upgrade ``` #### Install GO ```bash sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go curl -Ls https://go.dev/dl/go1.24.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzf - -C /usr/local eval $(echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/golang.sh) eval $(echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin' | tee -a $HOME/.profile) echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile source $HOME/.bash_profile go version ``` #### Download and build binaries ```bash # Clone project repository cd $HOME rm -rf lava git clone https://github.com/lavanet/lava.git cd lava git checkout v5.3.0 # Build binaries make install-all # Prepare binaries for Cosmovisor mkdir -p $HOME/.lava/cosmovisor/genesis/bin mv $HOME/go/bin/lavad $HOME/.lava/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/ # Create application symlinks sudo ln -s $HOME/.lava/cosmovisor/genesis $HOME/.lava/cosmovisor/current -f sudo ln -s $HOME/.lava/cosmovisor/current/bin/lavad /usr/local/bin/lavad -f ``` #### Create a service ```bash # Download and install Cosmovisor go install cosmossdk.io/tools/cosmovisor/cmd/cosmovisor@v1.6.0 # Create service sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/lavad.service > /dev/null << EOF [Unit] Description=Lava node service After=network-online.target [Service] User=$USER ExecStart=$(which cosmovisor) run start Restart=on-failure RestartSec=10 LimitNOFILE=65535 Environment="DAEMON_HOME=$HOME/.lava" Environment="DAEMON_NAME=lavad" Environment="UNSAFE_SKIP_BACKUP=true" [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable lavad ``` #### Initialize the node ```bash # Set node configuration lavad config chain-id lava-mainnet-1 lavad config keyring-backend file lavad config node tcp://localhost:26657 # Initialize the node lavad init $MONIKER --chain-id lava-mainnet-1 # Add seeds sed -i -e "s|^seeds *=.*|seeds = \"ebacd3e666003397fb685cd44956d33419219950@seed2.lava.chainlayer.net:26656,1105d3a3384edaa450f4f63c2b1ff08d366ee256@159.203.86.102:26656,f1caeaacfac32e4dd00916e8d912e1d834e94eb3@lava-seed.stakecito.com:26666,e4eb68c6fdfab1575b8794205caed47d4f737df4@lava-mainnet-seed.01node.com:26107,2d4db6b95804ea97e1f3655d043e6becf9bffc94@lava-seeds2.w3coins.io:11156,dcbfb490ea930fe9e8058089e3f6a14ca274c1c4@217.182.136.79:26656,e023c3892862744081360a99a2666e8111b196d3@38.242.213.53:26656,eafff29ec471bdd0985a9360b2c103997539c939@lava-seed.node.monster:26649,6a9a65d92b4820a5d198dd95743aa3059d0d3d4c@seed-lava.hashkey.cloud:26656\"|" $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml # Add peers peers="159a27880fe8704f44c307b18404061d46b77083@162.19.95.240:15656,0d6aed3038c55387f5b7c8fb1e702545358213ea@65.109.78.246:37656,0d67bedc7f929200d52c8724dfc50f848661f9ba@65.109.69.119:28656,f978474e77246a3635340d3bdb8dc14cb28d5ba0@188.214.129.218:26656,4008607a63c61e23bb74dfa613f93f9d178f5bd8@54.38.12.103:26656,d9bfa29e0cf9c4ce0cc9c26d98e5d97228f93b0b@65.108.233.103:14456,03c935c903ec7620d8e653fd179d5aa927888a09@136.243.55.115:40004,9d6216e9d79dc73247336ea18b928af9c9544e4f@51.210.223.80:19956,91971680907af210c45bf3618046314225a2629f@176.103.222.58:26656" sed -i -e "s|^persistent_peers *=.*|persistent_peers = \"$peers\"|" $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml # Set minimum gas price sed -i -e "s|^minimum-gas-prices *=.*|minimum-gas-prices = \"0.000000001ulava\"|" $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml # Settings sed -i \ -e 's/timeout_propose = .*/timeout_propose = "1s"/' \ -e 's/timeout_propose_delta = .*/timeout_propose_delta = "500ms"/' \ -e 's/timeout_prevote = .*/timeout_prevote = "1s"/' \ -e 's/timeout_prevote_delta = .*/timeout_prevote_delta = "500ms"/' \ -e 's/timeout_precommit = .*/timeout_precommit = "500ms"/' \ -e 's/timeout_precommit_delta = .*/timeout_precommit_delta = "1s"/' \ -e 's/timeout_commit = .*/timeout_commit = "15s"/' \ -e 's/^create_empty_blocks = .*/create_empty_blocks = true/' \ -e 's/^create_empty_blocks_interval = .*/create_empty_blocks_interval = "15s"/' \ -e 's/^timeout_broadcast_tx_commit = .*/timeout_broadcast_tx_commit = "151s"/' \ -e 's/skip_timeout_commit = .*/skip_timeout_commit = false/' \ $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml # Set pruning sed -i \ -e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "nothing"|' \ $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml ``` #### Download genesis and Addrbook ```bash curl -Ls https://snapshots3.stakevillage.net/lava-mainnet-1/genesis.json > $HOME/.lava/config/genesis.json curl -Ls https://snapshots3.stakevillage.net/lava-mainnet-1/addrbook.json > $HOME/.lava/config/addrbook.json ``` #### Set custom ports **You can change value CUSTOM\_PORT=147 to any other ports** ```bash CUSTOM_PORT=147 ``` ```bash sed -i -e "s%^proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26658\"%proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:${CUSTOM_PORT}58\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26657\"%laddr = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:${CUSTOM_PORT}57\"%; s%^pprof_laddr = \"localhost:6060\"%pprof_laddr = \"localhost:${CUSTOM_PORT}60\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:26656\"%laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}56\"%; s%^prometheus_listen_addr = \":26660\"%prometheus_listen_addr = \":${CUSTOM_PORT}66\"%" $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml sed -i -e "s%^address = \"tcp://localhost:1317\"%address = \"tcp://localhost:${CUSTOM_PORT}17\"%; s%^address = \":8080\"%address = \":${CUSTOM_PORT}80\"%; s%^address = \"localhost:9090\"%address = \"localhost:${CUSTOM_PORT}90\"%; s%^address = \"localhost:9091\"%address = \"localhost:${CUSTOM_PORT}91\"%; s%^address = \"0.0.0.0:8545\"%address = \"0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}45\"%; s%^ws-address = \"0.0.0.0:8546\"%ws-address = \"0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}46\"%" $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml #Set config with new custom port lavad config node tcp://localhost:${CUSTOM_PORT}57 ``` #### Download latest chain snapshot ```bash curl -L https://snapshots3.stakevillage.net/lava-mainnet-1/snapshot_latest.tar.lz4 | tar -Ilz4 -xf - -C $HOME/.lava [[ -f $HOME/.lava/data/upgrade-info.json ]] && cp $HOME/.lava/data/upgrade-info.json $HOME/.lava/cosmovisor/genesis/upgrade-info.json ``` #### Start service and check the logs ```bash sudo systemctl start lavad && sudo journalctl -u lavad -f --no-hostname -o cat ```