Join a network
This guide will walk you through the process of setting up a standalone network locally, as well as running a node on Mainnet or Testnet.
You can also find the hardware requirements for each network in the respective tabs.
To easily set up a local node, download and run the setup.sh script. This will initialize your local Injective network.
Start the node by running:
For further explanation on what the script is doing and more fine-grained control over the setup process, continue reading below.
Initialize the Chain
Before running Injective node, we need to initialize the chain as well as the node's genesis file:
The command above creates all the configuration files needed for your node to run as well as a default genesis file, which defines the initial state of the network. All these configuration files are in ~/.injectived by default, but you can overwrite the location of this folder by passing the --home flag. Note that if you choose to use a different directory other than ~/.injectived, you must specify the location with the --home flag each time an injectived command is run. If you already have a genesis file, you can overwrite it with the --overwrite or -o flag.
The ~/.injectived folder has the following structure:
Modify the genesis.json File
genesis.json FileAt this point, a modification is required in the genesis.json file:
Change the staking
bond_denom, crisisdenom, govdenom, and mintdenomvalues to"inj", since that is the native token of Injective.
This can easily be done by running the following commands:
Create Keys for the Validator Account
Before starting the chain, you need to populate the state with at least one account. To do so, first create a new account in the keyring named my_validator under the test keyring backend (feel free to choose another name and another backend):
Now that you have created a local account, go ahead and grant it some inj tokens in your chain's genesis file. Doing so will also make sure your chain is aware of this account's existence from the genesis of the chain:
$MY_VALIDATOR_ADDRESS is the variable that holds the address of the my_validator key in the keyring. Tokens in Injective have the {amount}{denom} format: amount is an 18-digit-precision decimal number, and denom is the unique token identifier with its denomination key (e.g. inj). Here, we are granting inj tokens, as inj is the token identifier used for staking in injectived.
Add the Validator to the Chain
Now that your account has some tokens, you need to add a validator to your chain. Validators are special full-nodes that participate in the consensus process in order to add new blocks to the chain. Any account can declare its intention to become a validator operator, but only those with sufficient delegation get to enter the active set. For this guide, you will add your local node (created via the init command above) as a validator of your chain. Validators can be declared before a chain is first started via a special transaction included in the genesis file called a gentx:
A gentx does three things:
Registers the
validatoraccount you created as a validator operator account (i.e. the account that controls the validator).Self-delegates the provided
amountof staking tokens.Link the operator account with a Tendermint node pubkey that will be used for signing blocks. If no
--pubkeyflag is provided, it defaults to the local node pubkey created via theinjectived initcommand above.
For more information on gentx, use the following command:
Configuring the Node Using app.toml and config.toml
app.toml and config.tomlTwo configuration files are automatically generated inside ~/.injectived/config:
app.toml: generated by the Cosmos SDK (which Injective is built on), and used for configurations such as state pruning strategies, telemetry, gRPC and REST server configurations, state sync, and more.
Both files are heavily commented—please refer to them directly to tweak your node.
One example config to tweak is the minimum-gas-prices field inside app.toml, which defines the minimum gas prices the validator node is willing to accept for processing a transaction. If it's empty, make sure to edit the field with some value, for example 10inj, or else the node will halt on startup. For this tutorial, let's set the minimum gas price to 0:
Run a Localnet
Now that everything is set up, you can finally start your node:
This command allows you to run a single node, which is is enough to interact with the chain through the node, but you may wish to run multiple nodes at the same time to see how consensus occurs between them.
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