Join the Network

Hardware Specification

Validators should expect to provision one or more data center locations with redundant power, networking, firewalls, HSMs and servers.

We initially recommend this minimum hardware specifications and they might rise as network usage increases.

Copy 4+ vCPU x64 2.0+ GHz 32+ GB RAM 1TB+ SSD

Install injectived and peggo

Copy wget https://github.com/InjectiveLabs/injective-chain-releases/releases/download/v1.7.0-1662223156/linux-amd64.zip unzip linux-amd64.zip sudo mv peggo /usr/bin sudo mv injectived /usr/bin

Initialize a new Injective Chain node

Before actually running the Injective Chain node, we need to initialize the chain, and most importantly its genesis file.

Copy # The argument <moniker> is the custom username of your node, it should be human-readable. export MONIKER=<moniker> # the Injective Chain has a chain-id of "injective-1" injectived init $MONIKER --chain-id injective-1

Running this command will create injectived default configuration files at ~/.injectived.

Prepare configuration to join Mainnet

You should now update the default configuration with the Mainnet's genesis file and application config file, as well as configure your persistent peers with a seed node.

Copy git clone https://github.com/InjectiveLabs/mainnet-config # copy genesis file to config directory cp mainnet-config/10001/genesis.json ~/.injectived/config/genesis.json # copy config file to config directory cp mainnet-config/10001/app.toml ~/.injectived/config/app.toml

You can also run verify the checksum of the genesis checksum - 573b89727e42b41d43156cd6605c0c8ad4a1ce16d9aad1e1604b02864015d528

Copy sha256sum ~/.injectived/config/genesis.json

Then open update the persistent_peers field present in ~/.injectived/config/config.toml with the contents of mainnet-config/10001/seeds.txt and update the timeout_commit to 800ms.

Copy cat mainnet-config/10001/seeds.txt nano ~/.injectived/config/config.toml

Configure systemd service for injectived

Edit the config at /etc/systemd/system/injectived.service:

Copy [Unit] Description=injectived [Service] WorkingDirectory=/usr/bin ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/injectived --log-level=error start' Type=simple Restart=always RestartSec=5 User=root [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Starting and restarting the systemd service

Copy sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl restart injectived sudo systemctl status injectived # enable start on system boot sudo systemctl enable injectived # To check Logs journalctl -u injectived -f

Sync with the network

Option 1. State-Sync

You can use state-sync to join the network by following the below instructions.

Copy sudo systemctl stop injectived sudo injectived tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home ~/.injectived CUR_HEIGHT=$(curl -sS https://tm.injective.network/block | jq .result.block.header.height | tr -d '"') SNAPSHOT_INTERVAL=5000 RPC_SERVERS="38c18461209694e1f667ff2c8636ba827cc01c86\@mainnet-sentry-de-0.injective.network:26657,4f9025feca44211eddc26cd983372114947b2e85\@mainnet-sentry-de-1.injective.network:26657,c98bb1b889ddb58b46e4ad3726c1382d37cd5609\@mainnet-sentry-fi-0.injective.network:26657,23d0eea9bb42316ff5ea2f8b4cd8475ef3f35209\@mainnet-sentry-fi-1.injective.network:26657,f9ae40fb4a37b63bea573cc0509b4a63baa1a37a\@mainnet-sentry-ca-0.injective.network:26657,7f3473ddab10322b63789acb4ac58647929111ba\@mainnet-sentry-ca-1.injective.network:26657" TRUST_HEIGHT=$(( CUR_HEIGHT / SNAPSHOT_INTERVAL * SNAPSHOT_INTERVAL )) TRUSTED_HASH=$(curl -sS https://tm.injective.network/block?height=$TRUST_HEIGHT | jq .result.block_id.hash) perl -i -pe 's|enable = false|enable = true|g' ~/.injectived/config/config.toml perl -i -pe 's|rpc_servers = ".*?"|rpc_servers = "'$RPC_SERVERS'"|g' ~/.injectived/config/config.toml perl -i -pe 's/^trust_height = \d+/trust_height = '$TRUST_HEIGHT'/' ~/.injectived/config/config.toml perl -i -pe 's/^trust_hash = ".*?"/trust_hash = '$TRUSTED_HASH'/' ~/.injectived/config/config.toml sudo systemctl start injectived

Option 2. Snapshots

You can find archival and pruned snapshots on ChainLayer (opens new window).

Alternatively you can use the archival or pruned snapshots on AWS.

Archival

Copy aws s3 sync --acl public-read --delete --no-sign-request s3://injective-snapshots/mainnet/injectived/daily/data $HOME/.injectived/data aws s3 sync --acl public-read --delete --no-sign-request s3://injective-snapshots/mainnet/injectived/daily/wasm $HOME/.injectived/wasm

Pruned

Copy aws s3 sync --acl public-read --delete --no-sign-request s3://injective-snapshots/mainnet/injectived/pruned/data $HOME/.injectived/data aws s3 sync --acl public-read --delete --no-sign-request s3://injective-snapshots/mainnet/injectived/pruned/wasm $HOME/.injectived/wasm

Support

For any further questions, you can always connect with the Injective Team via Discord, Telegram, and email.

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