A guide to setting up quicksilver’s killerqueen testnet validator
Official manual: https://github.com/ingenuity-build/testnets
Hardware Requirement
4v CPU (minimum, but recommended to go up to 8v CPU)
8 GB RAM (minimum, but recommended to go up to 16GB)
150 GB SSD (blockchain data takes up 102G as of this writing)
Stable internet connection
Dependencies
sudo apt update
sudo apt install make build-essential jq
Install Go
# Download latest binary
wget <https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.linux-amd64.tar.gz>
# Make sure no existing installation
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
# Extract binaries over
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.18.linux-amd64.tar.gz
# Add bin to the PATH environment variable
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile
# Check version
go version #go version go1.18 linux/amd64
# Clean up
rm go1.18.linux-amd64.tar.gz
Install quicksilverd Binary
git clone --branch v0.4.0 <https://github.com/ingenuity-build/quicksilver.git>
cd quicksilver
make install
quicksilverd version
#0.4.0