Pushchain | Install

System Specs

Hardware	Requirement
CPU	4 Cores
RAM	8 GB
Disk	250 GB

Install Push Chain testnet Validator

1. System Preparation

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

2. Install Binary

cd $HOME
wget https://ss-t.pushchain.nodestake.org/pchaind
chmod +x pchaind
mv pchaind $HOME/go/bin/
pchaind version

3. Initialize Node

pchaind init yourmoniker --chain-id=push_42101-1

4. Download Genesis & addrbook

curl -Ls https://ss-t.pushchain.nodestake.org/genesis.json > $HOME/.pchain/config/genesis.json
curl -Ls https://ss-t.pushchain.nodestake.org/addrbook.json > $HOME/.pchain/config/addrbook.json

5. Custom config (port, etc)

PORT=136
sed -i -e "s%:26657%:${PORT}57%" $HOME/.pchain/config/client.toml
sed -i -e "s%:26658%:${PORT}58%; s%:26657%:${PORT}57%; s%:6060%:${PORT}60%; s%:26656%:${PORT}56%; s%:26660%:${PORT}61%" $HOME/.pchain/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s%:1317%:${PORT}17%; s%:9090%:${PORT}90%" $HOME/.pchain/config/app.toml

sed -i \
-e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "custom"|' \
-e 's|^pruning-keep-recent *=.*|pruning-keep-recent = "100"|' \
-e 's|^pruning-keep-every *=.*|pruning-keep-every = "0"|' \
-e 's|^pruning-interval *=.*|pruning-interval = "10"|' \
$HOME/.pchain/config/app.toml

sed -i 's|^indexer *=.*|indexer = "null"|' $HOME/.pchain/config/config.toml

6. Create Service

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

7. Download snapshot

SNAP_NAME=$(curl -s https://ss-t.pushchain.nodestake.org/ | egrep -o ">20.*\.tar.lz4" | tr -d ">")
curl -o - -L https://ss-t.pushchain.nodestake.org/${SNAP_NAME}  | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.pchain

8. Start Node

sudo systemctl restart pchaind
journalctl -u pchaind -f