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A Simple Guide To Setting Up Flux Nodes For Massive Rewards.

This guide is for anyone that wants to buy and invest in FLUX and ultimately run a node to reap FLUX rewards but has struggled with how to set them up.

So I decided to create a comprehensive guide on the whole process from start to finish. Yes, I know there are many guides out there but the fact that so many people have a hard time with this and also that I envisage this number to increase a lot now that the node requirements have lessened I felt the need to write a guide that does not miss anything out. Or at least tries hard not to miss anything out.

This is one of the reasons why there is so much confusion around this whole process and to make matters worse as web 3.0 grows so does all of this change and morph and improve and then change again. It is a LOT to keep up with even for me! Ryan who I talk to a lot about this is not going to be happy because what we are getting is ever-increasing complexity when what we need is every increasing ease of use. I digress.

For this tutorial and to benefit the vast amount of new people coming into the Crypto space every day I am going to assume that you have no FLUX but want some. As such I will start at the beginning with buying FLUX and then move on to node setup once you have some.

For those of you that are more familiar with crypto in general you can skip whole sections of this guide and just skip to the parts that are relevant to you.

There is talk of even lower entry points for nodes which are shown below.

Now here is the thing. And this thing happens all the time in Crypto and indeed in software development generally.

The developers in an effort to improve things for the community work on their roadmap and introduce all sorts of new and shiny things for us the end users to play with. As in this case, we get the ability to have a lower point of entry in Flux terms for setting up a node as it drops from 10000 flux to 1000 flux for a Cumulus node.

Hurrah I hear you say. I can now run a node on Flux and not have to fork out $12000 (based on the current price of $1.20) in Flux costs upfront based on the current Flux price!

Not so fast. In doing this they have also increased the server requirements and introduced two new metrics for your server.

DWS (Disc Write Speed)
EPS (Events Per Second)

This has opened a whole new can of worms for you because currently not many of the VPS providers list these metrics in their VPS product offerings. I have been trawling VPS providers and even Contabo don’t list this metric on their base products. Not only that but 200gig SSD drives on a VPS cost more monthly.

So, I’m going to continue the guide and do my best to find a provider that at least comes close to the new requirements in the hopes that the server providers create new product offerings more suited to the new Flux node requirements to make it easier for you (and me) to find a VPS product that fits.

Whenever I want to buy any coin or token the first place that I head to is

Once the page is loaded you can see there is a small search box top right. Type into that box “Flux” and this will pop up.

Select Flux from the list. A note here when looking for coins. A lot will have the same or similar names, so it is wise and prudent to go to that project’s website and check the type of icon they use for their coin and the branding to make sure you select the correct one. Many people buy the wrong coin every day!

Now you have selected the correct Flux coin you should see this.

If you scroll down the page, you will see this section.

This is the list of places where you can currently buy Flux tokens. For myself, I mainly buy it on Binance

or Kucoin

as I have accounts with them and I can use my credit card as I have that setup. If you are new to Crypto and indeed Buying Crypto for the first time you will have to go through their KYC (Know Your Customer) process before you can buy anything. It is quite lengthy and involves sending them various documents (passport copy, ID card etc) until they are satisfied that you are indeed you.

The good news is that once you’re set up you’re good to go. You can then add a bank account and credit/debit card and start buying your very first crypto.

To buy flux on Binance once you are set up with KYC you can use a Deposit from your bank or Credit/Debit card like so.

If you select Credit/Debit card you will see this screen

As you can see, I have selected Flux to buy and added in that I want 1010 Flux. Be aware that whatever amount you do buy is not the amount you will receive when you transfer it to your Zelcore wallet. This is because some of these coins will be used for transaction fees. Depending on which coin you buy and which blockchain it is on your gas fee (transaction fee) will be more or less.

I’ve only selected to buy 1010 just for the purposes of showing you the process. For the new node staking requirements, you will need 1000 flux to run one Cumulus node. But we will get to that later. For now, just buy your Flux (however much you like, you don’t have to just buy 1010).

Once you have purchased some Flux and it has been processed it will end up in your Binance wallet like so.

There it is in my Binance wallet. You can also see that I don’t have anything else sitting in my Binance wallet and this is for a good reason.

DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CRYPTO ON AN EXCHANGE

Yes of course a lot of these exchanges are MUCH more reputable these days but your crypto is much safer when you have it stored in a personal wallet, and this is the topic of the next section. How do you get your Flux off Binance exchange and into the wallet of choice for running a Flux node which is Zelcore

Before we try and move our Flux let’s get set up with Zelcore, so you have somewhere to move it to. As part of this process, you are going to need to download and set up the Zelcore wallet.

Zelcore is one of my favourite wallets for the following reasons.

1. It does not store or transmit personal data

2. It does not store or transmit recovery seeds

3. It supports well over 200 assets now with more being added

4. It contains a flux node dashboard

5. You can run it on multiple devices by using a simple login

6. It contains additional pin code security

You can download it for FREE so let’s head on over there and download it.

Please go to this URL

And then click on “Try it Now” which will take you down the page so you can choose your operating system. I am on windows so will install the Windows version here.

Once Zelcore is downloaded to your device or Laptop click on “Register a New Account”

Please choose a Memorable Username and a Strong Password. These details will be used to log in to your account each time you open your wallet so don’t forget them.

Zelcore does NOT keep a copy of your account details and there is NO WAY to retrieve them should you lose them.

“ZelCore utilizes a unique account creation system, which mimics the traditional username/password + 2fa — in a decentralized manner. This involves the username/password being locally hashed with salts, generating a master private key for the wallet, and in turn, this master key is used to generate public and private keys for all assets within ZelCore.”

Write down your keys, usernames and passwords but make sure you store them in a safe and well-hidden place. If anyone gets hold of these details just like a bank account, they will be able to take your crypto. There are multiple ways to store your keys from excel sheets to metal key wallets. Just don’t store them on your laptop and worst still online in google sheets etc. You can view details about Zelcore here and also about how to see and backup your private keys:

One of the nice things with Zelcore is that I can have it on my Desktop machine, my laptop and my phone and just use the username and password to log in on each device. For each new device, you simply click.

Add Existing Account on the Login Screen

Now enter your username and password as though you are registering for the first time. Once you have done this for the first time on each new device you can then log in as normal.

Once logged in you will be presented with your portfolio screen which of course will be empty. It should be noted that mine is not because this is one of my test Zelcore wallets that I use for videos and guides and as you can see, I have engaged privacy mode here as I have some tokens in there and also have renamed some of the standard internal wallets.

This is a quirk of Zelcore that confuses some people. Zelcore is the main wallet software application BUT inside Zelcore you have 6 individual wallets each with its own wallet addresses that you can use and rename. I have

Nodes
Nodes 2
Nodes 3
Portfolio 3
Nodes 4
Nodes 5

Choose one of the internal wallets that you want to run your node on and call it what you like. Now you need to add the Flux coin and the flux parallel assets to this wallet.

You can find a description of what parallel assets are here in this guide

https://fluxofficial.medium.com/flux-parallel-assets-deep-dive-the-secret-sauce-of-flux-defi-cb1d1e85aa7f

Add the assets by clicking manage assets and then choosing each coin

Flux
Flux KDA
Flux BSC
Flux SOL
Flux TRX
Flux ETH
BNB

Once these coins are added to your wallet we can move on to the next section.

Were, are we? Ah yes, we have bought some flux that is sitting in Binance. We have downloaded and installed Zelcore which is on our laptop. So, the next step is to get that Flux from Binance to Zelcore in order for us to be able to set up and run a node.

At the moment of writing this, you need EXACTLY 1000 flux to run one Cumulus node. It is imperative that you ONLY send 1000 Flux to one of your wallet addresses in Zelcore. Not one flux more and not one flux less. This will change as per the node running requirements change for each tier but for Cumulus it’s 1000.

So, let’s do that next.

So back to my wallet on Binance and press the Withdraw button.

Now you are presented with this

Here on this screen shown in the image above, we need to enter

The receiving wallet address
The Network

The network and wallet address here is the critical thing. Of course, pasting in the correct receiving address is also (think IBAN number) get it wrong and it will go to someone else’s account. But the network is also important. Get that wrong and you won’t see your crypto either.

Buying Flux on Binance means you’re buying the Flux BSC Token and not Flux native coin. So, in your Zelcore wallet, you need to make sure you select to receive the token into the Flux BSC coin. I could have shown you here how to buy Flux native on Kucoin but that would have involved sending USDT to Kucoin to trade it for Flux.

I chose this route because it touches on the Flux parallel assets which you will also receive once you start running a node. Each parallel asset has its own receiving wallet address so be careful when sending and receiving these tokens that you check this and get it right.

Anyway. In Zelcore click on Flux BSC Token (If you don’t see this coin click on manage assets and add it). You can also play around with hide zero balances because Zelcore does like to hide coins with no balance.

Now click on Receive and then on the wallet address to copy it

Once copied I paste this into Notepad because sometimes windows likes to remember in the clipboard the previous copy you made. So, I paste it into notepad to double-check it’s the right address 😊

Take this copied address back to Binance and paste it into the Address field. Look at it and compare it to your notepad copied address and your wallet receiving address. Take time, don’t click, click, click. A lot of cryptos have been lost to impatience and fast clicking!

As you can see I have

Pasted in the wallet address
Selected BSC BNB smart chain (BEP20)
Selected Max for the amount (1010)

The Network you select here can also see your crypto lost if you select the wrong one. The network is always the network that the coin belongs to. So as this is BSC Flux the network here will be BSC. Now I will press withdraw once I am happy that I have made no mistakes.

Now we just run through the security withdrawal checks. The code will be sent to your email address and then you come back here and paste it in to complete the transfer. I also have a Google 2FA setup, so I also need to use that also and grab the 2FA code.

The network fee is very cheap on the Flux blockchain (unlike ETH) Now we wait patiently for the Flux to arrive in our Zelcore wallet.

And there it is. I got 1009.88 Flux and this is why you always buy a little more than you need for your node staking so as to have enough to cover the fees for the transactions.

Now I need to swap this BSC Flux for Native Flux using the Fusion APP within Zelcore. But to do this we will need some BNB to pay the Binance gas fees so make sure you have some BNB in this wallet. Add the BNB BSC coin from manage assets in Zelcore and then buy and send some BNB BSC tokens from Binance to that address. You won’t need much as the FLux gas fees are quite low.

You can buy BNB from Binance and transfer it the same way I transferred Flux but of course, make sure to send it to the BNB address in Zelcore and not the Flux address 😊

Once you have your BNB to pay the gas fees you can go to Apps in Zelcore which is in the left hand menu.

Select Fusion

Make sure to select the correct wallet in fusion. Here I have selected Nodes 4. Next select Flux BSC to swap and select Max. Select Flux to Buy and then press swap.

You will get a popup window telling you the swap is in progress.

Are you beginning to see why people struggle to set up nodes😊

I shall continue.

Now that is done, I am going to send 1000 flux (one thousand) to one of my clean and empty wallets inside Zelcore. I want to do this because the Flux network will look for this exact transaction amount and will only verify it for running a node if it is this exact amount. As I said before this figure varies’ s depending on which node tier you want to set up.

Why did I not do that just buy and send 1000 Flux from Binance I hear you ask?

Simply because with the fees and also swapping fees you never get it exactly right, so it is better to send flux (more than you need) swap it (if needed unless you bought native Flux on Kucoin) and then once you have it send it from one internal wallet to another in the exact amount needed. So many people I see send 1000.2850 for example and then wonder why their node won’t start!

Here is the Flux I swapped using Fusion arriving in my Nodes 4 wallet.

It is 1007.38 because of the gas fees.

To summarise this section, you can buy Flux BSC on Binance but then you will have to swap it once it arrives in your Zelcore wallet, so it becomes native Flux.

OR

You can buy USDT on Binance and send it to your Kucoin account (yes, another account you will have to set up and go through all the KYC etc). And then once the USDT is on Kucoin you trade it on their exchange for native Flux and then send that native Flux to your Zelcore wallet.

Confused yet?

Let’s move exactly 1000 Flux on the Node 4 wallet to one of my empty wallets my Node 5 wallet.

Now that I have 1000 Flux in my Node 5 wallet, I need to wait for the transactions to reach the 100 confirmations that are required. In the meantime, I can move on to setting up my VPS.

Once that confirmation figure reaches 100 you will be ready to start a node on this transaction.

I can hear you thinking ok Mark this is cool for the first node setup and sending exactly 1000 Flux to one of your empty wallets. But what about when I want to set up my second node in the same wallet, and I now have 1028 Flux in there because I have had some rewards from running my first node?

Don’t worry. The amount of Flux in the wallet is irrelevant. Flux will look for individual transactions of exactly 1000 for each node so for each new node just make sure to transfer the exact 1000 and Flux will see that individual transaction and use that for node number 2.

If you thought the above was complex this next section is the part where most people get stuck. I shall try and keep it as easy to follow as I can.

There are many VPS providers around the world but for the purposes of my Flux node I only used to use one of them and that one was Contabo

HOWEVER

with the advent of the new node tier requirements and the server requirements changing Contabo now doesn’t offer a decent VPS that meets these, so I went on the hunt again for a VPS provider that does and came up with

There are not that many others. A lot of the providers do not want you to run Flux nodes on a VPS. If you do find another provider, make sure that they allow nodes and also that they meet the node requirements shown below.

Hardware Requirements

2 Cores
4 Threads
8 GB RAM
220 GB SSD/NVME
180 Mb/s DWS
240 EPS Min. Requirements
25 Mb down/up speed

VPS and ARM64 compatible

On Advin I’m running this server.

This does not appear to be listed yet in their normal product range. I emailed them to get the buy link for it. Also, most VPS servers list vCores and NOT cores. This might be a typo on Flux’s part because frankly, you can’t get a VPS listed with cores at all. They all list vCores. At least not that I have found.

But let’s continue with what you currently need. So, I’m going to head over to Advin and get my server set up and ready to link it to my Zelcore wallet.

Once you have contacted Advin and bought the server you are going to want to log in to it so you can start the process of installing Flux onto it. Now we get to the tricky part where pretty much everyone struggles 😊 I shall attempt to make this part as painless as possible for you.

Once your server is set up you have to log in and configure it using either SSH or Username and password and a telnet application. There are many little telnet applications that you can use but two that I like to use are

Putty
Secure CRT

Putty is free but Secure CRT you have to pay for. As Putty is free, I shall use that for this guide although I prefer secure CRT myself as I can more easily configure it how I like it and save the configs and tabs etc.

Click download and then choose your version based on what operating system you use at home. For me, I’m on Windows 64 bit so choose the top one. The .msi one.

Download and install putty.

Once installed you need to select Putty Agent

And then you will see this

Next, we need to configure putty to connect to our VPS server and there are two ways to do this.

1. Via SSH keys

2. Via username and password

SSH keys are the most secure but to be frank with you so is a username and password so long as it is complex, and you store your passwords with as much care as you do your crypto wallet keys.

I’m going to show you the username and password route because I also know that SSH keys are another stumbling block for most users. So go to the email you got from Advin and look for the IP Address, username and password for your server.

Come back to Putty and put the IP address in this box and click open

This will open a putty telnet window. Click accept on the Security alert message.

Now you will see this window

On some server’s “admin” is the username at this stage. I know that Flux tells you to login with root user, but some VPS hosts do not allow that and want you to use admin. Advin however does use root as your initial username. If your VPS insists on admin then once you are logged in, you will need to switch user to the root user using this command.

sudo su

This will change you over to the root user.

Now enter the password from the email and you will see this window

That’s it you’re logged into your VPS server as root user via Putty. Easy huh 😊

Ok now let’s get it set up and configure flux to run on it.

The next thing I want to do is update the server and we do this by typing this command as the root user.

apt update

And hit enter

As you can see, I have customised my Putty window to have a larger font and nice green text (my personal preference).

Running this command tells me that 285 updates can be installed.

So, I do need to update this server. However, you might have the message that the server is up to date in which case you do not need to try and update it.

For me, though I shall run this command and update the 285 packages by running this command.

apt upgrade -y

During the update, you might get this message

I’m going to opt to “Install the package maintainer’s version” (Option 1 in the list) here. I’ve already checked with Advin and it’s safe to do this.

Once your server is updated and you’re back to the root user line we need to run another command to install curl.

So enter this command in and hit enter

apt install curl npm

If curl asks for additional disk space to be used hit y on your keyboard and then hit enter again on your keyboard.

A lot of text will now scroll past in the terminal window with a progress bar as curl installs.

Once finished you will end up back here at the root command prompt.

Now we want to install the flux toolbox and we do this by running this command

Copy the above command exactly and paste it into the terminal and again hit enter. Be patient here as it will look like nothing is happening for a while. Just leave it and watch.

After a while, you will see this screen

Here you can see which version of the toolbox you are using. Mine is v7.1

On this screen I want you to press 1 on your keyboard.

This box will pop upnext asking for you to enter a username.

What you are doing now is creating a username (yes another one) 😊 This username will be the one that runs flux on your box. It helps to stop people that hack into your box using root gaining access to your flux install. If you’re careful with the machine you run your Crypto journey on and don’t also use it to also browse random cheap websites you’ll make it much harder for anyone to get the details to be able to hack into your servers.

You can create any name you like here but of course, make sure you note it down.

Type it in and use the arrow key on your keyboard to move the red highlight down to ok.

Once highlighted on “OK” hit enter.

Now you’ll see this.

Type in your usernames password and again hit enter when done. Now the script will install docker. Let it do its thing.

When you see the above screen type y and hit enter which will switch you over to the user account just created.

Now that we are logged in as our Flux user, we need to run the main command again to install the flux node.

So, copy this command and paste it in.

And we will be back here.

Now we need to run command number 2 which is to install the Flux node. So, enter 2 here and hit enter.

You will now be asked to enter your flux node user’s password so enter that and hit enter.

Now you will see this message as the Flux node starts to setup.

Just let it do its thing until you get to this message.

To get this private key we need to log back into our Zelcore wallet. So let me do that.

Once in Zelcore click on the left-hand menu Apps and then click on Flux Nodes

Your Flux node will appear here because you transferred exactly 1000 Flux tokens to one of your wallets. Each time you transfer 1000 Flux to one of your wallets a new node will appear here in this list.

We then want to click the little down arrow and click on edit. (Can you see this 1000 Flux transaction has 1311 confirmations now)

In edit mode, we want to name our node so for me ill call this one cumulus1 (call it what you like). Then we need to add the VPS servers IP address in the next box

Now we click the private key to copy it and then go back to putty to paste it into the window

Then again use the down arrow to highlight the OK and hit enter once done.

Then it will ask us for the collateral txid so go back to Zelcore and copy that and enter it in the window.

Highlight the OK and hit enter.

Now it will ask us for the output index which we can copy from Zelcore again.

Mine is 0.

Enter what yours is, Use the arrow key to highlight the OK and hit enter

Next, you will see this.

Go back to Zelcore and again hit apps. Then select Zel ID

Copy your Zel ID and paste it back in your Putty window. Highlight OK and hit enter

Flux will now continue to install on your VPS. Let it do its thing. While you are waiting go back to Zelcore and click on save for your node. Make sure you have added your server’s IP address in the IP field.

Do not start your node yet in Zelcore. You must wait until your VPS is finished setting up and also you need your 1000 Flux confirmations to be at 100 minimum before the start button will appear.

Now open your putty window to see how your download is coming along. It does take a long time to complete so be patient. You will see this message at some point.

For the purposes of a fresh install just highlight 1 and hit enter.

Flux will now download all the files it needs. This part can take half an hour so again be patient. You can also select 2 here “Download from own source”

Sometimes the main Flux download server is very busy so what I do is use one of the mirror servers for which flux maintains a list. You can check how fast each one is by selecting it and putting it in your browser and then see how fast it starts to download. Then just use the fastest one and enter that into the box provided.

Here is the list of bootstrap download locations. You can check with Flux on their Discord to see if these are still current.

Now you will see this. It is up to you. I always select No here as I log into Zelcore daily to check my nodes, so I do not need alerting.

Once done your node will start which takes about 3 minutes.

The script will continue again. Once we are finally done you will be given some benchmark figures, a list of commands that you can use and also an IP address and port number that you can use to log into flux on the web.

Once the script has finished you will get your benchmark figures as you can see below. My VPS on Advin has very good Disc Write and EPS speeds.

You can take the IP address and port number displayed here and paste it into your web browser to load up your flux node in a web interface if you like.

Once loaded up you can sign in using Zel ID in Zelcore itself. On Windows just click the Zel ID button and then click open Zelcore

Then when Zelcore opens click sign and send.

We will then be logged into Flux on the web. We are now finished for now with the VPS and the last thing to do is go back to Zelcore and check that your 1000 Flux transaction has its 100 confirmations. If it does you can click start your server.

Hit start if you have 100 confirmations or more.

Then hit Start FluxNode and you will see this message

And now my Flux Node is “Started”

And finally, “Confirmed”

If you made it this far well done you’re finished and your Flux node is running and in the queue for rewards.

This one is in position 8248. When that gets to zero I get rewarded Flux tokens and also parallel assets too. Don’t forget to add parallel assets into your wallet. I’ll do another article showing how to do this and also how to claim them.

You can monitor your Flux nodes in Zelcore and also on the Flux web browser by logging in using the nodes IP address and Port number. You can also of course access your VPS, log in as your flux user and run commands on the VPS itself.

A good source of support is the Flux Discord server

Well done if you got his far and welcome to the Flux club. Now let’s look forward to Flux at $20 eh…

Mark.

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