Why you should care about Neutaro

Neutaro is closely working with Timpi to help them create the first truly decentralized search engine! On Neutaro you can claim your rewards for contributing to Timpi and you can vote on different proposals affecting Timpi. These proposals will for example be about the ethical standpoint of the Timpi search engine.

Introduction

You can be a part of Neutaro by having tokens and delegating those, running a node or by becoming a validator.

Delegating

By delegating your tokens to a validator you increase the amount of staked tokens they have and by that their voting power. In return you get a cut of their rewards based on the amount you have delegated. You can delegate to a Validator using the command. 1.000.000 uneutaro is 1 NTMPI. if you want to stake 100 NTMPI tokens you put 100000000uneutaro into the command. The example is 1 token.

Neutaro tx staking delegate ValidatorAddress 1000000uneutaro --from YOURWALLET --chain-id Neutaro-1 --node https://rpc1.neutaro.tech:443

Running a node

Running a node means that you run the chains binary. Follow these steps to create a Validator that runs as a service on linux.

Preperation

We suggest using Ubuntu 22.04.03, 4 cores and 100gb of free storage. This will increase overtime, but with the suggested pruning and current state of the chain it's fine and it will be fine for a few more months.

Make sure your system is up to date.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential bsdmainutils git make ncdu gcc git jq chrony liblz4-tool -y

Installing Go v1.20.4

ver="1.20.4"
cd $HOME
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
rm "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Make sure version 1.20.4 is installed
go version

Then we install the Neutaro Binary

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/Neutaro/Neutaro
cd Neutaro/cmd/Neutaro/
go build

Installing cosmovisor

mkdir -p $HOME/.Neutaro/cosmovisor/genesis/bin
mv $HOME/Neutaro/cmd/Neutaro/Neutaro $HOME/.Neutaro/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/
sudo ln -s $HOME/.Neutaro/cosmovisor/genesis $HOME/.Neutaro/cosmovisor/current
sudo ln -s $HOME/.Neutaro/cosmovisor/current/bin/Neutaro /usr/local/bin/Neutaro
cd $HOME/Neutaro/
go install cosmossdk.io/tools/cosmovisor/cmd/cosmovisor@v1.4.0

Now we configure the node

MONIKER=YOURMONIKER
Neutaro init $MONIKER --chain-id Neutaro-1
Neutaro config chain-id Neutaro-1
Neutaro config keyring-backend os

curl http://154.26.153.186/genesis.json > $HOME/.Neutaro/config/genesis.json

Editing the app.toml file

You can edit the file $HOME/.Neutaro/config/app.toml to change the minimum-gas-prices ( Currently most use 0 ) and the pruning.
minimum-gas-prices = "0uneutaro"

For pruning you could add whatever you like. These options mainly decide how much storage the Node will use. An example would be using
pruning="custom"
pruning-keep-recent="100"
pruning-interval="19"

Configuring the config.toml

The file is in $HOME/.Neutaro/config/config.toml. Here you edit the "persistent_peers" to persistent_peers = "2fd06277f46e845ca73df8f81caf68e6579bbe32@86.48.20.122:26656".

Downloading the snapshot

cd $Home/root/.Neutaro/
mv data data-old
wget http://109.199.106.233/snapshot.tar.lz4
lz4 -d snapshot.tar.lz4
The next step takes a bit of time. you could use -xvf to see the output.
tar -xf snapshot.tar
Once the node is running you can delete unnecessary files using
rm -r snapshot.tar
rm -r snapshot.tar.lz4
rm -r data-old

Create Neutaro service. Copy/paste everything from sudo to 2nd EOF.

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/Neutaro.service > /dev/null << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Neutaro Node Service
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which cosmovisor) run start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
LimitNOFILE=65535
Environment="DAEMON_HOME=$HOME/.Neutaro"
Environment="DAEMON_NAME=Neutaro"
Environment="UNSAFE_SKIP_BACKUP=true"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Enabling the Service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable Neutaro

Starting the Service/ the Node

sudo systemctl restart Neutaro

To view the service use

sudo journalctl -fu Neutaro -o cat

use ctrl + c to exit the log

Check the sync status

Neutaro status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Proceed once it's synced

you will be asked for your memonic on this step. You can also remove the --recover flag and create a new wallet and send funds to this new wallet from your main wallet. You can now delete the files using the commands from the snapshot section.

Neutaro keys add WALLET --keyring-backend os --recover

Sending the becomming a validator transaction

once you have a funded wallet on the node send this, but make sure to check all the parameters to see if they are fine for you!

Neutaro tx staking create-validator --amount=1500000uneutaro --pubkey=$(Neutaro tendermint show-validator) --moniker=$MONIKER --identity="79E14FB4E5BE4F30" --chain-id=Neutaro-1 --from WALLET --keyring-backend os --commission-rate="0.10" --commission-max-rate="0.20" --commission-max-change-rate="0.01" --min-self-delegation="1000000" --gas="auto" --gas-prices="0.0025uneutaro" --gas-adjustment="1.5"