Zora has raised a total of $60M in funding over 3 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on May 5, 2022 from a Seed round. Zora is funded by 10 investors. Kindred Ventures and Coinbase Ventures are the most recent investors.

1. VPS Configuration

minimum requirements

• at least 16 GB RAM
• an SSD drive with at least 200 GB free

you can buy vps on contabo
For region i prefer use singapore, many airdrops don’t allow US citizen. Select Ubuntu.

2. Connect Your VPS

For Windows i’m use MobaXterm and download portable edision.
Now,

• go to MobaXterm > sesion > ssh > paste your vps ip to ‘remote host’ and enter
• write your vps username and password

password never be displayed, so just type and enter.

3. Alchemy API

• go to https://www.alchemy.com
• sign up
• create new app
• enter name
• choose eth network
• click create
• Click on an API key

4. Install Node

Connect to your node through MobaXterm and run the following commands :

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo apt install curl build-essential git screen jq pkg-config libssl-dev libclang-dev ca-certificates gnupg lsb-release -y

sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose -y

Press Y and Enter if required :

git clone https://github.com/conduitxyz/node.git

cd node
./download-config.py zora-mainnet-0

export CONDUIT_NETWORK=zora-mainnet-0
cp .env.example .env
nano .env

Replace<http://11rpc> with your Alchemy Account API key (HTTPS) and paste CONDUIT_NETWORK=zora-mainnet-0
Close file pressing CTRL + X , press Y and hit Enter.

screen -S log
sudo docker compose up --build

You can detach from the screen by pressing CTRL + A + D
You can go back to the logs using :

screen -r log

that’s all, you did great work!