This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide for setting up and running a provider on the Lava Network with lavavisor, allowing you to serve decentralized API access and earn rewards.

Prerequisites

Before starting, ensure you have the following:

• A running, accessible node for the chain you intend to serve (e.g., ethe, Cosmos Hub, NEAR).
• Access to lava network pruned node(not any of lava public endpoint as they are rate limited)
• Familiarity with the command line interface (CLI) and basic Linux operations.
• Wallet with enough funds to run a provider.

NOTE: We are going to assume that you know how to bootstrap a linux server and understand the basics concept of security.

Tools setup

sudo apt -q update

sudo apt -qy install curl git jq build-essential

sudo apt -qy upgrade

Now we need to install go

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go

curl -Ls <https://go.dev/dl/go1.22.12.linux-amd64.tar.gz> | sudo tar -xzf - -C /usr/local

eval $(echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/golang.sh)

eval $(echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin' | tee -a $HOME/.profile)

Lava service setup

Now we are going to setup lavavisor which takes care of on chain changes in the binary and automaticly deploys them. And then configure ETH1 archive node!

The next diagram will be your checklist. If you failed on something. You should check if this diagram corresponds to work you performed.