Ergo Synced Node

Direct Blockchain Archive Download Link

Running a node from initial sync can take a long time, espically on older or low power devices.

To mitigate this problem I have taken the liberty to take a snapshot of about 1,054,000 blocks.
This will drastically reduce sync time.

This program is neatly organized into a docker container to spin up a complete node in around 30 min.

Prerequisites

Although the script tries to install docker for any linux distro, its best of docker and the docker compose plug-in are already installed.

The node currently takes about 25 GiBs of storage. It is best for your host system of have a minimum 50 GiBs free and 6 GiBs of RAM available.

RAM may be able to be customized if you edit the -Xmx6G flag in docker-compose.yml

Setup

Defaults:

localhost:9053 --This is the web address to the ergo node
API Key: hello --This is the api key to unlock the ergo node in the web panel

Change the hash in ergo.conf and python-conf/ergo.conf to change the API Key

ergo-node setup

git clone https://github.com/mgpai22/ergo-synced-node

cd ergo-synced-node/ergo-node

chmod +x ergo-node-installer.sh

./ergo-node-installer.sh

nano ergo.conf

• Edit the config file as necessary
  • Defaults are fine
  • Make sure to save the file in nano with ctrl + o then exit with ctrl + x
  • After editing do this docker compose up --force-recreate -d to make sure the changes load
  • Warning, if run before the installer script, as ergo.conf will be overwritten

Usage

The setup process should take under 30 min. This is depending on the download and extraction
speed. The extraction process itself takes around 10 to 15 minutes.

localhost:9053 will open up the webpage directly to the node.

Once setup is complete, the docker container can be left alone. The node can be used as any other node.

The config file can be edited while the node is running

• Edit as normal and save
• docker-compose up --force-recreate -d

The node will connect only to peers that are synced and healthy. To refresh this peer list run ./updatePeerList.sh in the respective directory. Then enter docker-compose up --force-recreate -d to start up the node.

The node instance can be removed with docker-compose down this will NOT delete the blockchain
files.

Roadmap

• Windows Guide