Nexus Labs Testnet Node - Full Guides Fix Issue (Prover Network)

The Nexus Labs zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine) is a modular verifiable internet, as extensible, open-source, highly-parallelized, prover-optimized, contributor-friendly, zkVM written in Rust, focused on performance and security. Read this step to runnig Nexus node as Prover Network.

Here We Go...Gas!!!

There mentioned in FAQs, Do is incentivized??

What incentives do you offer for contributing to the network? At this time, contributors receive recognition through public leaderboards. Nexus may implement additional incentives in a future release. Read here https://nexus.xyz/network#network-faqs

As following categories of contributions and this incentive pools are indicated on faqs.

Incentivized Activity	Allocation Token
Running Nexus Prover Node	0% xxx (TBA)
xxxxxxxxxxx	xxxxx (TBA)

1. Preparation for Nexus Prover Node

1. Hardware requirements

In order to ran Nexus prover node as CLI, need a Linux server (VPS) with the minimum recommended hardware

Requirement	Details
RAM	4 GB
CPU/vCPU	2-4 Cores
Storage Space	50-100 GB
Supported OS	Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 LTS

2. Hardware requirements

In order to ran Nexus prover node as BROWSER, need a device

Requirement	Details
Internet	Stable Connection
Portable Devices	Hand/mobile phones, PC/Laptop/Netbooks, Tablet
Web Browser	Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Brave, Edge, UC/Kiwi etc..

3. Configuration Nexus prover node

If you don't have these dependencies already, install them first.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y 
sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config libssl-dev git-all

2. Quick Start Install

1. Auto installer

curl sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arcxteam/nexus-node/main/nexus.sh | bash

2. Manual installer

curl https://cli.nexus.xyz/ | sh

If you do not already have Rust, you will be prompted to install it.

3. Getting an Error Fix

logs: If have facing issue on cycles Proof sent! You proved at 0 Hz for the latest https://github.com/nexus-xyz/network-api/releases/

1. Upgrade & restart service for network-api

cd ~/.nexus/network-api && \
git fetch --all --tags && \
LATEST_TAG=$(git describe --tags $(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1)) && \
git checkout $LATEST_TAG && \
sudo systemctl daemon-reload && \
sudo systemctl restart nexus.service

4. Super Usefull Commands

1. Based-on ran Nexus Labs node

Save the Prover-id

• cat $HOME/.nexus/prover-id; echo ""

Start and enable the service

• sudo systemctl stop nexus.service
• sudo systemctl daemon-reload
• sudo systemctl enable nexus.service
• sudo systemctl start nexus.service
• sudo systemctl restart nexus.service

Checking the status

• sudo systemctl status nexus.service
• ps aux | grep nexus

Monitor the logs

• journalctl -u nexus.service -f -n 100

2. Important Note

• Delete all Nexus Node running service

sudo systemctl stop nexus.service && sudo systemctl disable nexus.service && sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/nexus.service && sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl reset-failed