☑️Story Validator Node

Recommended Hardware: 8 Cores, 64GB RAM, 500GB of storage (NVME)

Installation

Install dependencies, if needed

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install curl git make jq build-essential gcc unzip wget lz4 aria2 -y

Install go, if needed

cd $HOME && \
ver="1.22.0" && \
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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" >> ~/.bash_profile && \
source ~/.bash_profile && \
go version

Download Story-Geth binary

wget https://story-geth-binaries.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/geth-public/geth-linux-amd64-0.9.2-ea9f0d2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf geth-linux-amd64-0.9.2-ea9f0d2.tar.gz
[ ! -d "$HOME/go/bin" ] && mkdir -p $HOME/go/bin
if ! grep -q "$HOME/go/bin" $HOME/.bash_profile; then
  echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin' >> $HOME/.bash_profile
fi
sudo cp geth-linux-amd64-0.9.2-ea9f0d2/geth $HOME/go/bin/story-geth
source $HOME/.bash_profile
story-geth version

Download Story binary

wget https://story-geth-binaries.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/story-public/story-linux-amd64-0.9.11-2a25df1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf story-linux-amd64-0.9.11-2a25df1.tar.gz
[ ! -d "$HOME/go/bin" ] && mkdir -p $HOME/go/bin
if ! grep -q "$HOME/go/bin" $HOME/.bash_profile; then
  echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin' >> $HOME/.bash_profile
fi
sudo cp story-linux-amd64-0.9.11-2a25df1/story $HOME/go/bin/story
source $HOME/.bash_profile
story version

Init Iliad node

story init --network iliad --moniker "Your_moniker_name"

live peers

PEERS="[e-mail]:26656,fe5b39d2bd701ed12a953894cc1449d4c5c6d699@135.125.189.91:26656,9ed1e069802812f484faa68a2c6dd61f6bc1be0b@88.99.61.173:26656,a320f8a15892bddd7b5502527e0d11c5b5b9d0e3@69.67.150.107:29931,5ca8af7a122bc4a9a294704a711c7e5e430876ff@38.242.138.228:26656,00c495396dfee53a31476d7619d1cc252b9a47b9@89.58.62.213:26656,ba7a053ab29149aa5ffcdae0248428ce49c53bc0@185.119.116.250:26656,ee5ecaf1364cb3238113ba9a29813c17fab97694@157.173.197.110:26656,a03f525b72ece596b6ea3609b49c676751fafc14@94.141.103.163:26656"
sed -i -e "/^\[p2p\]/,/^\[/{s/^[[:space:]]*persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"/}" $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml

Create story-geth service file

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/story-geth.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Story Geth Client
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
ExecStart=/root/go/bin/story-geth --iliad --syncmode full
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=4096

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Create story service file

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/story.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Story Consensus Client
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
ExecStart=/root/go/bin/story run
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=4096

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Reload and start story-geth

sudo systemctl daemon-reload && \
sudo systemctl enable story-geth && \
sudo systemctl start story-geth

Reload and start story

sudo systemctl daemon-reload && \
sudo systemctl enable story && \
sudo systemctl start story

Check logs

sudo journalctl -u story-geth -f -o cat
sudo journalctl -u story -f -o cat

Check sync status

curl localhost:26657/status | jq

Create validator

Export private key By default, when you run story init a validator key is created for you. To view your validator key, run the following command:

story validator export

In addition, if you want to export the derived EVM private key of your validator into the default data config directory, please run the following:

story validator export --export-evm-key

Note that to participate in consensus, at least 1 IP must be staked (equivalent to 1000000000000000000 wei)! Faucet link: https://faucet.story.foundation/

story validator create --stake 1000000000000000000 --private-key "your_private_key"

Validator Staking

story validator stake \
   --validator-pubkey "VALIDATOR_PUB_KEY_IN_BASE64" \
   --stake 1000000000000000000 \
   --private-key xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Replace VALIDATOR_PUB_KEY_IN_BASE64

Amount: 1000000000000000000=1 IP Token

Check your Validator on Explorer: https://testnet.story.explorers.guru/

Snapshot

sudo systemctl stop story story-geth
cp $HOME/.story/story/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.story/story/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.story/story/data $$HOME/.story/geth/iliad/geth/{chaindata,blobpool,nodes}
curl https://server-5.itrocket.net/testnet/story/story_2024-08-30_153938_snap.tar.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.story
mv $HOME/.story/story/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.story/story/data/priv_validator_state.json
sudo systemctl restart story story-geth && sudo journalctl -u story -f