It's in-one bundle Aztec Node and Erigon Sepolia Minimal Node with Grafana Dashboard

What is Aztec?

Aztec is a Privacy-First L2 on Ethereum On Ethereum today, everything is publicly visible, by everyone. In the real world, people enjoy privacy. Aztec brings privacy to Ethereum.

• private functions, executed and proved on a user's device
• public functions, executed in the Aztec Virtual Machine
• private state, stored as UTXOs that only the owner can decrypt
• public state, stored in a public merkle tree
• composability between private/public execution and private/public state
• public and private messaging with Ethereum To make this possible, Aztec is not EVM compatible and is extending the Ethereum ecosystem by creating a new alt-VM!

To learn more about how Aztec achieves these things, check out the Aztec concepts overview - https://docs.aztec.network/aztec

This guide will help you to start all the conteiners, aztec node will wait for full synchronization of erigon node, and as soon as the upper block will be reached, aztec node will start, download backup from Google Cloud and start synchronization with Aztec Network

It's tested on dedicate server, DONT USE CONTABO servers!!!

Hardware Requirements

Minimal Node:

• At least 4 cores / 8 threads
• 16GB RAM or more
• 512b - NVMe SSD Erigon will be use 150Gb (May 2025)

First Step

• Update packages

  sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
  

• Install dependencies

  sudo apt install curl build-essential git wget jq make gcc nano tmux -y
  

• Install docker and docker compose

  curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
  sudo sh ./get-docker.sh
  docker version && docker compose version
  

• Run Docker as a non-root user

• if you under root can skip this

  sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
  

Relogin to your server to take effect from usermod !!!

Second Step

• Clone this repo to your server, navigate to aztec_erigon folder, open .env file with nano and past your Private Key and IP address
• Never give your private keys to third parties!!!

  git clone https://github.com/andrii1890/aztec_erigon.git
  mkdir -p $HOME/aztec_erigon/data/erigon/
  mkdir -p $HOME/aztec_erigon/data/aztec/
  cd $HOME/aztec_erigon/
  sudo chown -R 1000:1000 ./data/erigon
  nano .env
  

• Spinup all containers

  docker compose up -d
  

Grafana Dashboard will be avaliable here:

• http://you_ip_address:3000

In 4-5 hours check your sync

curl -s http://localhost:8080/status

if no result - just wait and try later, if - OK. move next to the https://discord.com/channels/1144692727120937080/1367196595866828982

/operator help

Register your node as a Validator

docker exec -it aztec \
  node /usr/src/yarn-project/aztec/dest/bin/index.js add-l1-validator \
    --l1-rpc-urls http://erigon:8545 \
    --private-key YOUR PRIVATE KEY \
    --attester YOUR WALLET ADDRESS \
    --proposer-eoa YOUR WALLET ADDRESS \
    --staking-asset-handler 0xF739D03e98e23A7B65940848aBA8921fF3bAc4b2 \
    --l1-chain-id 11155111

Actual finalized block number

curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"node_getL2Tips","params":[],"id":67}' http://localhost:8080 | jq -r '.result.proven.number'

Third step

• Add alias for docker logs

  echo "#Aztec and Erigon Alias" >> $HOME/.profile
  echo 'alias aztec.log="docker logs aztec -f"' >> $HOME/.profile
  echo 'alias sepolia.log="docker logs erigon -f"' >> $HOME/.profile
  echo 'alias prometheus.log="docker logs prometheus -f"' >> $HOME/.profile
  echo 'alias grafana.log="docker logs grafana -f"' >> $HOME/.profile
  echo 'alias loki.log="docker logs loki -f"' >> $HOME/.profile
  source $HOME/.profile
  

  now you can simply find logs: aztec.log sepolia.log, prometheus.log, grafana.log, loki.log

You are free to make any changes in docker-compose.yaml if you know what you do 😉