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THORChain Bare-Metal Validator  —  Migration to Cosmo-Operator

May 2025, THORChain have announced a migration to a new Cosmo-Operator to help automate and coordinate future Thornode releases. While…

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THORChain Bare-Metal Validator  —  Copy Chain Data

There is different reason we may want to spin up an additional daemon pod, such as: migrating to a new server, or simply having two…

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THORChain Bare-Metal Validator  —  WireGuard Monitoring

Sometime a WireGuard connection would just stay hanging unresponsive and would require a restart to get back alive. When a VPN connection…

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THORChain Validators  —  Re-creating From Backups

So, things went completely wrong on an active Validator, but at least we had backups… Now what???

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THORChain Bare-Metal Validator  —  Part 3: Maya’s Chocolate

This guide is the Part 3 of the THORChain bare-metal validators series, see Part 1 about building the hardware for this server, and Part 2…

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THORChain Bare-Metal Validator  —  Part 2: Multi-Node Using MicroK8s

This guide is Part 2 of the THORChain bare-metal validators series, see Part 1 about building the hardware for this server.

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THORChain Validator Migration — The Exhaustive Guide

A few parts of documentation exists about migrating node, saying it’s risky and should only be attempted in emergency situation, but also…

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THORChain Bare-Metal Validator  —  Part 1: Hardware

This guide is meant to be an add-on to what has previously been previously written by Hildisvíni Óttar and Scorch about setting up a…