Running a validator on Clover Network
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This guide will instruct you how to set up a Clover validator node on Clover networks (Testnet/Sakura/Mainnet).
Running a validator is a serious thing, you have a lot responsibility for the staked tokens of you and nominators. You take the risk of losing your staked tokens as a slash might happen if your validator node is not properly configured. Please make sure you or your team have the necessary knowledge to run a validator node.
has an awesome introduction of running a validator node on the . As a member of the Polkadot ecosystem, Clover follows the similar process to run and setup a validator node. We may skip some basics steps in this tutorial.
CPU - Recent released high end cpu, e.g. Intel 10700/Amd 5800X.
Memory - 32GB for Testnet, 64GB for Sakura and Mainnet.
Storage - 300GB SSD, Storage usage could increase by time, you might need to increase the capacity as the chain data grows..
OS: Linux, Debian/Ubuntu LTS distributions are recommended.
We'll use and to run the validator in this guide. You need to install docker and docker-compose firstly. Please follow the installation guide in the docs.
Below ports need to be exposed:
30333 - The p2p port of the chain
Create the config and data directories using below command:
Currently we only have Clover Testnet(iris) and Clover Mainnet(ivy) launched. Clover Testnet opens for validators to join. Clover Mainnet operates in the POA mode and maintained by 6 nodes belongs to Clover foundation.
Validator Configuration for Clover Mainnet will be updated later once it's ready for staking and validators can join.
Create /opt/compose/docker-compose.yaml
and set the content as below:
Use below command to bring up the validator node:
You need to check the node logs using docker-compose logs
command. Wait until the node is synced and the block numbers syncs with the latest number on the chain.
image: the docker image used to launch the node, for Clover mainnet, use cloverio/clover-ivy:0.1.16.
For a full list of clover networks please check out the page.
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