Full-Consensus-Node

Setting up a Celestia full consensus node | Celestia Docs

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Hardware requirements​

• Memory: 8 GB RAM

• CPU: Quad-Core

• Disk: 250 GB SSD Storage

• Bandwidth: 1 Gbps for Download/1 Gbps for Upload

Dependencies install

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential git make ncdu -y

Go install

ver="1.21.1" 
cd $HOME 
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz" 
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go 
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz" 
rm "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz" 

echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

go version

Celestia-appd install

LATEST_RELEASE=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases/latest | jq -r '.tag_name')
echo "The latest Celestia Node release is: $LATEST_RELEASE"

cd $HOME
rm -rf celestia-app
git clone https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app.git
cd celestia-app
git checkout tags/$LATEST_RELEASE -b $LATEST_RELEASE
make install

celestia-appd version

Initialize the Full consensus node​

celestia-appd init "set_node_name" --chain-id celestia

Copy the genesis.json file

wget -O $HOME/.celestia-app/config/genesis.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/celestiaorg/networks/master/celestia/genesis.json

Set seeds and peers

SEEDS="[e-mail]:26656,[e-mail]:26656"
PEERS="1b92a439555a19ee6edea85b184abb6873757dae@51.89.173.96:26656,5bc86308e2b3730ce611abf622c8be752780f934@5.199.172.53:26656,87af580078c80c630625db2360b3dc19483d29cd@185.182.194.163:26656,a99cebabe607bffba1d81878450fa5a18fbc5c33@192.168.1.36:26656"
sed -i -e "s/^seeds *=.*/seeds = \"$SEEDS\"/; s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml

Run node in the background using SystemD

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/celestia-appd.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=celestia-appd Daemon
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which celestia-appd) start
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

# Enable and start celestia-full-consesnsus-node daemon
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable celestia-appd
sudo systemctl restart celestia-appd

# Check daemon logs
journalctl -u celestia-appd -f