# Citrea Node Setup

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### Servers :&#x20;

Contabo : <https://bit.ly/contabourl>\
InterServer : <https://bit.ly/interserverurl>\
Digital Ocean : <https://bit.ly/4cKNFco>

## Hardware Requirements

* 8 GB Ram
* 256 GB SSD (NVMe recommended)
* 4 core CPU
* 25+ Mbps network connection

satisfies the minimum requirements to run a Citrea node.

### Update :&#x20;

```
sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
```

### Install Curl :&#x20;

```
sudo apt install -y curl
```

### Install Make :&#x20;

```
sudo apt-get -y install make
```

### Install Rust - Cargo :&#x20;

```
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
```

Type : 1

```
source "$HOME/.cargo/env"
```

```
rustup update
```

```
rustup default stable
```

### Install Clang :&#x20;

```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install make clang pkg-config libssl-dev -y
```

### Install Docker : <a href="#install-docker" id="install-docker"></a>

```
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
```

```
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
```

```
sudo apt-get update
```

```
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
```

```
docker version
```

### Install Docker-Compose :&#x20;

```
VER=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)
```

```
curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/"$VER"/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
```

```
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
```

```
docker-compose --version
```

### Docker Permission to User :&#x20;

```
sudo groupadd docker
```

```
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
```

### Setup Bitcoin Signet :&#x20;

```
git clone https://github.com/chainwayxyz/bitcoin_signet && cd bitcoin_signet
```

### Build Signet Container :&#x20;

```
docker build -t bitcoin-signet .
```

### Run Signet Container :&#x20;

```
docker run -d --name bitcoin-signet-client-instance \
--env MINERENABLED=0 \
--env SIGNETCHALLENGE=512102653734c749d5f7227d9576b3305574fd3b0efdeaa64f3d500f121bf235f0a43151ae \
--env BITCOIN_DATA=/mnt/task/btc-data \
--env ADDNODE=signet.citrea.xyz:38333 -p 38332:38332 \
bitcoin-signet
```

### Clone Source Code :&#x20;

```
git clone https://github.com/chainwayxyz/citrea --branch=v0.4.1 && cd citrea
```

### Edit rollup config file :&#x20;

```
nano configs/devnet/rollup_config.toml
```

```
# DA Config
[da] 
node_url = "http://0.0.0.0:38332"
node_username = "bitcoin"                                     
node_password = "bitcoin"
network = "signet"

# Full Node RPC - The host & port here are the host & port that your full node RPC uses, do not change if you're not sure how it works.
[rpc] 
bind_host = "127.0.0.1"
bind_port = 12345

[runner]
sequencer_client_url = "https://rpc.devnet.citrea.xyz"
include_tx_body = false # Setting false to save space by not saving Soft Batches locally. 
```

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### Build Project :&#x20;

```
SKIP_GUEST_BUILD=1 make build-release
```

### Screen :&#x20;

```
apt install screen
```

```
screen -S citrea
```

## RUN  : &#x20;

```
./target/release/citrea --da-layer bitcoin --rollup-config-path configs/devnet/rollup_config.toml --genesis-paths configs/devnet/genesis-files
```


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