Building a Cardano relay node for ADA stake pool - Beginners guide

Staking & Delegation Setup a Stake Pool
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Cardano relay node build
using Coincashew’s guide for node v1.26.1

  1. Creating bootable Ubuntu flash drive

  2. Increasing swapfile size (pagefile) for machines lacking in RAM

  3. Installing requisite software + node

  4. Copy location for cardano-cli binaries for air gapped machine

  5. Configuring router for a bare-metal setup

  6. Configuring setup files - IP addresses & changing ports

  7. Syncing node - how to speed up process via saved blockchain

  8. Disabling TraceMempool for machines with less RAM

  9. Implementing the topology updater

  10. Setting up Ubuntu’s bundled firewall - UFW

  11. Updating node to newer version

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