Quicksilver Mainnet joining instructions

Note: commit hashes and shasums will be added before launch

For gentx instructions, follow the installation guide and follow the link below.

Minimum hardware requirements

4 cores (max. clock speed possible)
16GB RAM
500GB of NVMe or SSD disk

Software requirements

Quicksilver has releases for Linux here.

Latest version : v1.0.0

Install Quicksilver

Requires Go version v1.18+.

> git clone https://github.com/ingenuity-build/quicksilver && cd quicksilver
> git fetch origin --tags
> git checkout v1.0.0
> make install

Verify installation

To verify if the installation was successful, execute the following command:

> quicksilverd version --long

It will display the version of quicksilverd currently installed:

name: quicksilverd
server_name: quicksilverd
version: 1.0.0
commit: XXX
build_tags: netgo,ledger
go: go version go1.18 linux/amd64

Genesis validators

If the network is already running; continue with the steps below. Otherwise follow the instructions here to create an gentx.

Create a validator

Init Chain and start your node

> quicksilverd init <moniker-name> --chain-id=quicksilver-1

Create a local key pair Note: we recommend only using Ledger for mainnet! Key security is important!

> ## create a new key:
> quicksilverd keys add <key-name>
> ## or use a ledger:
> quicksilverd key add <key-name> --ledger     
> ## or import an old key:
> quicksilverd keys show <key-name> -a

Download genesis Fetch genesis.json into quicksilverd's config directory (default: ~/.quicksilverd)

> curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ingenuity-build/mainnet/main/genesis/genesis.tar.gz > genesis.tar.gz
> tar -C ~/.quicksilverd/config/ -xvf genesis.tar.gz

Genesis sha256

 shasum -a 256 ~/.quicksilverd/config/genesis.json
 XXX  /home/<user>/.quicksilverd/config/genesis.json

Start your node and sync to the latest block

Create validator

$ quicksilverd tx staking create-validator \
--amount 50000000uqck \
--commission-max-change-rate "0.1" \
--commission-max-rate "0.20" \
--commission-rate "0.1" \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--details "a short description lives here" \
--pubkey=$(quicksilverd tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker <your_moniker> \
--chain-id quicksilver-1 \
--from <key-name>

Peers

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