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Manual setup

Manual setup

Prerequisites

  • Ubuntu (tested on 18.04 and 20.04)
  • sudo apt-get install wget liblz4-tool aria2 jq -y

Get Binaries

Check the appropriate version for the network accordingly:

AXELARD_RELEASE=v0.33.1
TOFND_RELEASE=v0.10.1
# verify correct versions
echo $AXELARD_RELEASE $TOFND_RELEASE
 
# create a temp dir for binaries
cd $HOME
mkdir binaries && cd binaries
 
 
# get axelard, tofnd binaries and rename
wget https://github.com/axelarnetwork/axelar-core/releases/download/$AXELARD_RELEASE/axelard-linux-amd64-$AXELARD_RELEASE
wget https://github.com/axelarnetwork/tofnd/releases/download/$TOFND_RELEASE/tofnd-linux-amd64-$TOFND_RELEASE
mv axelard-linux-amd64-$AXELARD_RELEASE axelard
mv tofnd-linux-amd64-$TOFND_RELEASE tofnd
 
# make binaries executable
chmod +x *
 
# move to usr bin
sudo mv * /usr/bin/
 
# get out of binaries directory
cd $HOME
 
# check versions
axelard version
tofnd --help

Generate keys

To create new keys

axelard keys add broadcaster
axelard keys add validator
tofnd -m create

To recover exsiting keys

axelard keys add broadcaster --recover
axelard keys add validator --recover
tofnd -m import
# type your desired keyring password and enter mnemonics when prompted

Your tofnd secret mnemonic is in a file do cat $HOME/.tofnd/export to check. Save this mnemonic somewhere safe and delete the file by