Avail

Update packages

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Create directory

mkdir -p ${HOME}/avail-node/data
mkdir -p ${HOME}/avail-node/systemd

Download The Required Files

go to dir ~/avail-node for the setup validator

cd ~/avail-node
wget https://github.com/availproject/avail/releases/download/v2.1.0.0-rc1/x86_64-ubuntu-2204-avail-node.tar.gz

Extract binary

tar -xvzf x86_64-ubuntu-2204-avail-node.tar.gz && rm x86_64-ubuntu-2204-avail-node.tar.gz
mv avail-node ~/data-avail

Create a service file

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/availd.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Avail Validator
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
User=$USER
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=120
ExecStart=${HOME}/avail-node/data-avail --base-path ${HOME}/avail-node/data --chain turing --port 30333 --validator --name "YOUR_NAME_VALIDATOR"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable availd

Start node

sudo systemctl start availd

Check node logs

sudo journalctl -fu availd

The node will ouput the following when started:

2023-06-03 20:36:29 Avail Node
2023-06-03 20:36:29 ✌️  version 2.1.0-99b85257d6b
2023-06-03 20:36:29 ❤️  by Anonymous, 2017-2024
2023-06-03 20:36:29 📋 Chain specification: Avail Turing Testnet
2023-06-03 20:36:29 🏷  Node name: bewildered-distance-1229
2023-06-03 20:36:29 👤 Role:Authority
2023-06-03 20:36:29 💾 Database: RocksDb at /Users/thunder/code/avail/data/chains/Avail Testnet_6831251e-0222-11ee-a2c3-c90377335962/db/full
2023-06-03 20:36:29 ⛓  Native runtime: data-avail-9 (data-avail-0.tx1.au11)
2023-06-03 20:36:35 👶 Creating empty BABE epoch changes on what appears to be first startup.
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏷  Local node identity is: 12D3KooWPt7odw3aeq7azZDugXjNuUvQNPU58n1VRBzY1YBqsjkr
2023-06-03 20:36:35 Prometheus metrics extended with avail metrics
2023-06-03 20:36:35 💻 Operating system: macos
2023-06-03 20:36:35 💻 CPU architecture: aarch64
2023-06-03 20:36:35 📦 Highest known block at #0
2023-06-03 20:36:35 〽️ Prometheus exporter started at 127.0.0.1:9615
2023-06-03 20:36:35 Running JSON-RPC HTTP server: addr=127.0.0.1:9933, allowed origins=["http://localhost:*", "http://127.0.0.1:*", "https://localhost:*", "https://127.0.0.1:*", "https://polkadot.js.org"]
2023-06-03 20:36:35 Running JSON-RPC WS server: addr=127.0.0.1:9944, allowed origins=["http://localhost:*", "http://127.0.0.1:*", "https://localhost:*", "https://127.0.0.1:*", "https://polkadot.js.org"]
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏁 CPU score: 724.71 MiBs
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏁 Memory score: 41.49 GiBs
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏁 Disk score (seq. writes): 1.91 GiBs
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏁 Disk score (rand. writes): 454.66 MiBs

Stake your validator

Follow this guides : https://docs.availproject.org/operate/validator/staking/