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.
2024, 10 Dec for CLI prover-id binding
2025, 19 Feb CLI Run for
Update; 2025, 23 JUNE CLI Run for
Is there incentivized?
Important
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
There mentioned in FAQs; As following categories of contributions and this incentive pools are indicated on faqs.
| Incentivized Activity | Allocation Token |
|---|---|
| Running Nexus Prover Node | xxxxx (TBA) |
| Testnetwork | xxxxx (TBA) |
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 protobuf-compiler
1. Auto Installing by Docker
git clone https://github.com/arcxteam/nexus-node.git
cd nexus-node2. Manual Installing by CLI
curl https://cli.nexus.xyz/ | sh
If you do not already have Rust, you will be prompted to install it.
1. Update CLI for Binding a Wallet Address
If you have runtime at previous & run now, please binding your node-id for manual without auto installer skrip nexus.sh above. so the step here
- Go to https://app.nexus.xyz/nodes
- Open and wait the dashboard showing all and go section
add node>add CLI node> checkcopyand done - Open your ssh-vps-terminal, add/input your WALLET_ADDRESS and use command to enter
echo "WALLET_ADDRESS=your-wallet" >> /root/nexus-node/.env
For example
- echo "WALLET_ADDRESS=0x123456789" >> /root/nexus-node/.env2. After running check logging
docker compose logs -f nexus-docker
- or in the root
docker logs -f nexus-docker
3. Running on Multiple NODE-ID
This will Run and create
Replace WALLET_ADDRESS
Rename for next wallet address -> WALLET_ADDRESS_1 more multiple 3,4,5....
Still wait, this having for syncing on website, check
Nexus Pointon section page.....
2. Upgrade version for network-api
logs: If have facing issue cargo/cycles etc Proof sent! You proved at 0 Hz try git tag -l for the latest Api Network https://github.com/nexus-xyz/network-api/releases/
docker ps -a --filter "name=nexus-docker-" --format "{{.Names}}" | xargs -r docker rm -f && docker images --filter "reference=nexus-docker-*" --format "{{.ID}}" | xargs -r docker rmi -f && rm -rf /root/nexus-data/nexus-docker-* && cd /root/nexus && chmod +x nexus.sh && ./nexus.sh node-id-1.txt
1. Based-on ran Nexus Labs node
Checking the status service and resources
- docker images | grep nexus-docker
- docker ps -a
- docker stats
Check Version or error
source /root/.bashrc
source /root/.profile
nexus-network --version
2. Important Note
- Delete all Nexus Node running service
docker rmi -f $(docker images --filter "reference=nexus-docker-*" --format "{{.ID}}")
If you want to run a node (or several of them) as a service instead of docker
1. create service files
For each node you want to run create a new service file (replace [id] with your node id)
vi /etc/systemd/system/nexus-node-[id].service
2. Paste in the following content:
[Unit]
Description=Nexus Node [id]
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=root
Type=simple
ExecStart=/path-to/nexus-network start --headless --node-id [id]
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
3. Relaod systemd and enable the services
Repeat this step for each node you are setting up
sudo systemctl enable nexus-node-[id]
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
4. Run the node
Repeat this step for each node you want to run
sudo systemctl start nexus-node-[id]
5. Stopping a node
sudo systemctl stop nexus-node-[id]
6. Viewing node Logs
journalctl -f -u nexus-node-[id] -o cat
7. Note
When a node is running it is exauhsting a single thread of the CPU, at maximum you shuold run N-1 nodes where N is the number of CPUs you have on the machine, you should also make sure you have enough RAM when running multiple nodes.