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Run Validator

Validator Hardware Requirements​

  • VPS running recent versions of Mac OS X or Linux.
  • IMPORTANT 2T GB of free disk space, solid-state drive(SSD), gp3, 8k IOPS, 250MB/S throughput, read latency <1ms (if start with snap/fast sync, it will need NVMe SSD)
  • 16 cores of CPU and 64 gigabytes of memory (RAM)
  • Suggest m5zn.3xlarge instance type on AWS, or c2-standard-16 on Google cloud.
  • A broadband Internet connection with upload/download speeds of 10 megabyte per second

Setting up Validator Node​

1. Install BSC Fullnode​

Follow the instructions here to set up a full node.

2. Start Validator Node​

!!! Warning Please do not expose your RPC endpoints to public network.

## generate the consensus key and input the password
echo {your-password to the mining account} > password.txt
echo {your-password for the bls wallet} > blspassword.txt
geth --config ./config.toml --datadir ./node --syncmode snap -unlock {the address of your mining account} --password password.txt --blspassword blspassword.txt --mine --vote --allow-insecure-unlock --cache 18000

Post Running​

1. Monitor node status​

To get started quickly, run GethExporter in a Docker container.

docker run -it -d -p 9090:9090 \
  -e "GETH=http://mygethserverhere.com:8545" \
  hunterlong/gethexporter

2. Update validator profile​

You can submit a PullRequest to this repository to update your information: https://github.com/bnb-chain/validator-directory Reference: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/6976

3. Publish Validator Information​

Please submit a Pull Request to this repo https://github.com/bnb-chain/validator-directory

This repository is a place for validator candidates to give potential delegators a brief introduction about your team and infrastructure, and present your ecosystem contributions.

4. Stop Validating​

You can stop mining new blocks by sending commands in geth console

Connect to your validator node with geth attach ipc:path/to/geth.ipc

miner.stop()

To resume validating,

miner.start()