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How to Run A Fullnode on AREPA Smart Chain

Fullnodes Functions

  • Stores the full blockchain history on disk and can answer the data request from the network.
  • Receives and validates the new blocks and transactions.
  • Verifies the states of every accounts.

Supported Platforms

We support running a full node on Mac OS Xand Linux.

Suggested Requirements

Fullnode

  • VPS running recent versions of Mac OS X or Linux.
  • 4 cores of CPU and 8 gigabytes of memory (RAM).
  • A broadband Internet connection with upload/download speeds of 5 megabyte per second

Steps to Run a Full Node

Download arepa_mainnet.json and static-nodes.json from https://github.com/githubusername/githubrepo

wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/githubusername/githubrepo/master/arepa_mainnet.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/githubusername/githubrepo/master/static-nodes.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/githubusername/githubrepo/master/geth

Make node folder

mkdir node

Initialize the Node 

./geth --datadir ./node init arepa_mainnet.json

Copy the static-nodes.json to node/geth

Run the Nodes

./geth --datadir node --syncmode 'full' --gcmode=archive --port 40605 --http --http.port 3545 --http.api 'personal,eth,net,web3,personal,admin,miner,txpool,debug' --bootnodes enode://6c1110238b478dfdf0125d02820653151bb9d6528b750ec6b65ac34186d04364056aa9a6bf2567b94c0ae6d4cfe90efd48b76949536dff9e806edbfedee5079a@103.42.59.20:0?discport=40606 --networkid 61597 --allow-insecure-unlock