Full bootstrap recipe for chain lava-mainnet-1 running lavad v6.2.0 – denom ulava, snapshot service coming soon. Walks through dependencies, Go, build, init, systemd, snapshot apply and a wallet/validator walkthrough. Operated by Ledgera.
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Lava*-proledgera.com endpoints below will begin resolving once the infrastructure is deployed.Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or 24.04 LTS. Root or sudo-capable user. Minimum 8 GB RAM and a recent SSD with at least 250 GB free for lava-mainnet-1.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y sudo apt install -y curl git wget jq lz4 unzip tar make gcc clang \ pkg-config libssl-dev build-essential ncdu htop
ver="1.26.4" cd $HOME wget "https://go.dev/dl/go$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 GOROOT=/usr/local/go" >> ~/.bash_profile echo "export GOPATH=\$HOME/go" >> ~/.bash_profile echo "export PATH=\$GOPATH/bin:\$GOROOT/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bash_profile go version
cd $HOME rm -rf lava git clone https://github.com/lavanet/lava.git cd lava git checkout v6.2.0 make install
MONIKER="<your-moniker>"
lavad config chain-id lava-mainnet-1
lavad config keyring-backend os
lavad config node tcp://localhost:26657
lavad init "$MONIKER" --chain-id lava-mainnet-1
wget -O ~/.lava/config/genesis.json \ https://github.com/lavanet/mainnet-genesis/raw/main/genesis.json wget -O ~/.lava/config/addrbook.json \ https://snapshot-lava-mainnet.proledgera.com/addrbook.json
sed -i 's|minimum-gas-prices =.*|minimum-gas-prices = "0.000001ulava"|' \ $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml
sed -i 's|pruning =.*|pruning = "custom"|; s|pruning-keep-recent =.*|pruning-keep-recent = "100"|; s|pruning-interval =.*|pruning-interval = "19"|' \ $HOME/.lava/config/app.toml
sed -i 's|^indexer *=.*|indexer = "null"|' \ $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml
sed -i 's|prometheus = false|prometheus = true|' \ $HOME/.lava/config/config.toml
SEEDS="e03901f901a638ca8982b08f57a79bfe9926cff3@seed-lava-mainnet.proledgera.com:26656"
PEERS=$(curl -s https://snapshot-lava-mainnet.proledgera.com/peers.txt | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's/,$//')
sed -i.bak -E "s|^(seeds[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$SEEDS\"| ; \
s|^(persistent_peers[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$PEERS\"|" \
$HOME/.lava/config/config.toml
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/lavad.service > /dev/null <<EOF [Unit] Description=Lava (lava-mainnet-1) After=network-online.target [Service] User=$USER ExecStart=$(which lavad) start --home $HOME/.lava Restart=on-failure RestartSec=3 LimitNOFILE=65535 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable lavad
Pruned snapshot, lz4-compressed, coming soon. Cuts initial sync time from days to minutes.
# Preserve validator state cp $HOME/.lava/data/priv_validator_state.json \ $HOME/.lava/priv_validator_state.json.backup # Wipe + pull latest snapshot rm -rf $HOME/.lava/data lavad tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.lava/ --keep-addr-book SNAP=$(curl -s https://snapshot-lava-mainnet.proledgera.com/latest) curl -L $SNAP | lz4 -d | tar -x -C $HOME/.lava # Restore validator state mv $HOME/.lava/priv_validator_state.json.backup \ $HOME/.lava/data/priv_validator_state.json
sudo systemctl start lavad sudo journalctl -u lavad -f -o cat
sudo systemctl status lavad
lavad status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo curl -s localhost:26657/status | jq .result.sync_info
lavad keys add wallet lavad keys add wallet --recover
lavad q bank balances $(lavad keys show wallet -a)
lavad tx staking create-validator \
--amount=1000000ulava \
--pubkey=$(lavad tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker="<your-moniker>" \
--chain-id=lava-mainnet-1 \
--commission-rate=0.05 \
--commission-max-rate=0.20 \
--commission-max-change-rate=0.01 \
--min-self-delegation=1 \
--from=wallet --fees=5000ulava -y
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TAG=v6.2.0 cd ~/lava git fetch --all --tags git checkout $TAG make install lavad version sudo systemctl restart lavad
SNAP_RPC="https://rpc-lava-mainnet.proledgera.com:443"
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s $SNAP_RPC/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height)
BLOCK_HEIGHT=$((LATEST_HEIGHT - 1000))
TRUST_HASH=$(curl -s "$SNAP_RPC/block?height=$BLOCK_HEIGHT" | jq -r .result.block_id.hash)
sed -i.bak -E "s|^(enable[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1true| ; \
s|^(rpc_servers[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$SNAP_RPC,$SNAP_RPC\"| ; \
s|^(trust_height[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1$BLOCK_HEIGHT| ; \
s|^(trust_hash[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$TRUST_HASH\"|" \
$HOME/.lava/config/config.toml
lavad tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.lava --keep-addr-book
sudo systemctl restart lavad
lavad keys list lavad keys show wallet -a lavad keys show wallet --bech val -a
lavad q bank balances $(lavad keys show wallet -a) lavad tx bank send wallet <to> 1000000ulava \ --chain-id lava-mainnet-1 --fees 5000ulava -y VAL=$(lavad keys show wallet --bech val -a) lavad tx staking delegate $VAL 1000000ulava \ --from wallet --chain-id lava-mainnet-1 --fees 5000ulava -y lavad tx distribution withdraw-rewards $VAL \ --commission --from wallet --chain-id lava-mainnet-1 --fees 5000ulava -y
lavad tx staking edit-validator \
--moniker="<new-moniker>" \
--website="https://proledgera.com/" \
--chain-id=lava-mainnet-1 --from=wallet --fees=5000ulava -y
lavad tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id lava-mainnet-1 --fees 5000ulava -y
lavad q slashing signing-info $(lavad tendermint show-validator)
lavad q gov proposals lavad tx gov vote <id> yes \ --from wallet --chain-id lava-mainnet-1 --fees 5000ulava -y
sudo systemctl start lavad sudo systemctl stop lavad sudo systemctl restart lavad sudo journalctl -u lavad -f -o cat
priv_validator_key.json first.sudo systemctl stop lavad sudo systemctl disable lavad sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/lavad.service sudo systemctl daemon-reload rm -rf $HOME/.lava $HOME/lava sudo rm $(which lavad)