Staked Notary Control Scripts

Setting up your VPS

You need a new user, you cannot use root

For ubuntu 16.04 login as root and create a user: adduser

Add your user to sudo: gpasswd -a <user> sudo

Its reccomended to install an SSH key to this user. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2

Logout of root and login to your user to continue installing the notary repo.

Install instructions

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/StakedChain/StakedNotary.git
cd StakedNotary

You need to build our special repo of komodo thanks to @libbscott and nanomsg and SuperNET for iguana. Both these scripts cover all required deps on debian based distros.

cd install
./installSuperNET.sh
./buildkomodo.sh
./installnanomsg.sh

Now you need to copy the config file and edit it with our pubkey/Raddress and WIF key for KMD. There needs to be a space after the = sign on each line.

e.g btcpubkey = 02.....

cd ..
cp config_example.ini config.ini
nano config.ini

After this we are ready to launch KMD and any chains that happen to be in assetchains.json and import our private keys to them all.

./start.sh

To keep an eye on komodods sync status run: tail -f ~/.komodo/debug.log This could take a while. 2-3H maybe longer.

Once this is done, you have all the required things to launch iguana, there are some coins files in iguana/coins and iguana binary has been built from the SuperNET repo in your home folder and copied to iguana folder. Also the staked.json file containing all the info for the Notary Network has been fetched from github.

To start your notary node and connect to the network simply run:

./start_iguana.sh

There is one thing that notary nodes depend on more than anything else and that is the UTXO's. Once iguana has started we need to run @LukeChilds excellent UTXO splitter.

./utxosplitter.sh

You also will want to put this UTXO splitter on a cron job every 15 minutes.

crontab -e

Enter this into the cron tab:

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
*/15 * * * * /home/<your_username>/StakedNotary/utxosplitter.sh >> /home/<your_username>/utxo_split.log 2>&1

Adding New Coins

This is the coolest part, super happy about it. Simply add the coins params to assetchains.json (make sure you have the freq param it is required!) and submit a PR and merge it. Then have ALL operators:

pkill -15 iguana
./start.sh
./start_iguana.sh

There is no need to stop any deamons at this point, if they are already running, they will not start again.

Make sure some funds have been sent and everything should just work. :D

Using some of the Scripts

To get a list of coins: ./listcoins.sh

To issue commands to a coin: asset-cli <COINS_NAME> <COMMAND>

To issue commands to all assetchains: assets-cli <COMMAND>

To kill everything: ./stop.sh

The install scripts come with the tools:

htop: To monitor system load

slurm: To monitor network load

tmux: To make panes, so you can run these tools and iguana console logs at he same time and detach/reattach when you login/out of the notary node. Google is your friend.