💻Installation

Server preparation

apt update && apt upgrade -y

apt install curl iptables build-essential git wget jq make gcc nano tmux htop nvme-cli pkg-config libssl-dev libleveldb-dev tar clang bsdmainutils ncdu unzip libleveldb-dev -y

Install GO

ver="1.20.3"
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

Node installation

git clone https://github.com/kleomedes/prysm && cd prysm
git checkout v0.1.0-devnet
make install

prysmd version --long | grep -e version -e commit
# version: 0.1.0-devnet
# commit: f48a40b9541508c19b037e1a659c7ab048a1946d

We initialize the node to create the necessary configuration files

prysmd init UTSA_guide --chain-id prysm-devnet-1

Download Genesis

wget -O $HOME/.prysm/config/genesis.json "https://snapshots.polkachu.com/testnet-genesis/prysm/genesis.json"

sha256sum ~/.prysm/config/genesis.json
# afe3fae047851409fa4e8bbb321a723fb4b2dc783bb5079c716bdf7df336e0c4

At this stage, we can download the address book

wget -O $HOME/.prysm/config/addrbook.json "https://share101.utsa.tech/prysm/addrbook.json"

Set up node configuration

prysmd config set client chain-id prysm-devnet-1 
prysmd config set client keyring-backend os
sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.025uprysm\"/;" ~/.prysm/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me)
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.prysm/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.prysm/config/config.toml
seeds="[e-mail]:29856"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.prysm/config/config.toml

(OPTIONAL) Set up pruning

pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.prysm/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.prysm/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.prysm/config/app.toml

(OPTIONAL) Set up indexer

indexer="null"
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.prysm/config/config.toml

(OPTIONAL) Enable/Disable Snapshots

snapshot_interval=1000
sed -i.bak -e "s/^snapshot-interval *=.*/snapshot-interval = \"$snapshot_interval\"/" ~/.prysm/config/app.toml

Create a service file

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

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which prysmd) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable prysmd
systemctl restart prysmd && journalctl -u prysmd -f -o cat

If peers do not cling for a long time or you see errors error: wrong Block.Header.AppHash, you need to use State sync or boot from a Snapshot

To view useful commands, go to Useful commands

To create a validator, go to Creating / Editing a Validator