☑️Symphony Validator Node

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

Installation

Install dependencies, if needed

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential bsdmainutils git make ncdu gcc git jq htop tmux chrony liblz4-tool -y

Install go, if needed

cd $HOME
VER="1.22.2"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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"
[ ! -f ~/.bash_profile ] && touch ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:~/go/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
[ ! -d ~/go/bin ] && mkdir -p ~/go/bin
go version

Build symphonyd binary from source

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/Orchestra-Labs/symphony
cd symphony
git checkout v0.4.1
make install

Setup your variable settings

symphonyd init $MONIKER --chain-id symphony-testnet-4
sed -i -e "s|^keyring-backend *=.*|keyring-backend = \"os\"|" $HOME/.symphonyd/config/client.toml
sed -i -e "s|^chain-id *=.*|chain-id = \"symphony-testnet-4\"|" $HOME/.symphonyd/config/client.toml
sed -i -e "s|^node *=.*|node = \"tcp://localhost:12157\"|" $HOME/.symphonyd/config/client.toml

Download genesis file

curl -Ls https://snapshot.sychonix.com/testnet/symphony/genesis.json > $HOME/.symphonyd/config/genesis.json
curl -Ls https://snapshot.sychonix.com/testnet/symphony/addrbook.json > $HOME/.symphonyd/config/addrbook.json

Config Seeds and Peers

SEEDS="[e-mail]:12156"
PEERS="$(curl -sS https://rpc-symphony-t.sychonix.com/net_info | jq -r '.result.peers[] | "\(.node_info.id)@\(.remote_ip):\(.node_info.listen_addr)"' | awk -F ':' '{print $1":"$(NF)}' | sed -z 's|\n|,|g;s|.$||')"
sed -i -e "s|^seeds *=.*|seeds = '"$SEEDS"'|; s|^persistent_peers *=.*|persistent_peers = '"$PEERS"'|" $HOME/.symphonyd/config/config.toml

Config Pruning

sed -i \
  -e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "custom"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-recent *=.*|pruning-keep-recent = "100"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-interval *=.*|pruning-interval = "17"|' \
  $HOME/.symphonyd/config/app.toml

Set Minimum Gas Price, Enable Prometheus, and Disable the Indexer

sed -i -e "s|^minimum-gas-prices *=.*|minimum-gas-prices = \"0.25note\"|" $HOME/.symphonyd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/prometheus = false/prometheus = true/" $HOME/.symphonyd/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"null\"/" $HOME/.symphonyd/config/config.toml

Set custom port

sed -i -e "s%:1317%:12117%; s%:8080%:12180%; s%:9090%:12190%; s%:9091%:12191%; s%:8545%:12145%; s%:8546%:12146%; s%:6065%:12165%" $HOME/.symphonyd/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s%:26658%:12158%; s%:26657%:12157%; s%:6060%:12160%; s%:26656%:12156%; s%:26660%:12161%" $HOME/.symphonyd/config/config.toml

Create symphonyd service for your node to run in the background

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

[Service]
User=root
ExecStart=$(which symphonyd) start --home root/.symphonyd
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Start node

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable symphonyd
sudo systemctl restart symphonyd && sudo journalctl -fu symphonyd -o cat

Check for your syncing progress

symphonyd status 2>&1 | jq

Create wallet

symphonyd keys add $WALLET_NAME

# DO NOT FORGET TO SAVE THE SEED PHRASE & YOUR PASSPHRASE YOU SET FOR THIS WALLET
# You can add --recover flag to restore existing key instead of creating

Create validator

symphonyd tx staking create-validator \
--amount=500note \
--pubkey=$(symphonyd tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker=$MONIKER \
--identity="YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--security-contact="[e-mail]" \
--details="I love blockchain" \
--website="https://dongqn.com" \
--chain-id=symphony-testnet-4 \
--commission-rate=0.05 \
--commission-max-rate=0.20 \
--commission-max-change-rate=0.01 \
--min-self-delegation=1 \
--from=wallet \
--fees=500note \
-y

View Validator details:

symphonyd q staking validator $(symphonyd keys show "wallet" --bech val -a)

Unjail:

symphonyd tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id symphony-testnet-2 --fees 500note -y

Send token to another wallet:

symphonyd tx bank send wallet <TO_WALLET_ADDRESS> 100000note --chain-id symphony-testnet-2 --fees 500note -y

Delegate tokens to yourself:

symphonyd tx staking delegate $(symphonyd keys show wallet --bech val -a) 100note --from wallet --chain-id symphony-testnet-2 --fees 500note -y

Congratulation!!