️🏆Avail-Kate-Testnet

Website: availproject.org

Twitter: https://x.com/AvailProject

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/y6fHnxZQX8

Telemetry: https://telemetry.avail.tools/

Minimum hardware requirement

Guide for installing Avail Node on Ubuntu 20.04 & 22.04

CPU: 4 core RAM: 8 GB Storage(SSD): 200-300 GB

1. Install Rust

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install make clang pkg-config libssl-dev build-essential git screen protobuf-compiler -y

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env

rustup update nightly
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown --toolchain nightly

1. Install Avail and Run

git clone https://github.com/availproject/avail.git

screen -S availnode
cd avail
cargo build --release -p data-avail
mkdir -p output
git checkout v1.7.2

cargo run --locked --release -- --chain kate -d ./output

Now your node is running in screen press "Ctrl+a+d" while running your node and left the screen. Use screen -r to return back to screen

1. Create Systemd

touch /etc/systemd/system/availd.service
nano /etc/systemd/system/availd.service

Moniker is your validator name

[Unit]
Description=Avail Validator
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0
[Service]
User=root
ExecStart= /root/avail/target/release/data-avail --base-path `pwd`/data --chain kate --name "Moniker"
Restart=always
RestartSec=120
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save it: CTRL+X Yes Enter.

To enable this to autostart on bootup run:

systemctl enable availd.service
Start it manually with:

systemctl start availd.service

You can check that it's working with:

systemctl status availd.service

You can see the logs with:

journalctl -f -u availd