How to start the mainnet node#

1. Using exchaind and snapshots#

# 1. Build exchaind use the latest version of release# latest_version can be viewed through this link https://github.com/okx/exchain/releases/latest
git clone -b ${latest_version} https://github.com/okx/exchain.git 
cd exchain
make mainnet  # Compile the mainnet, default WITH_ROCKSDB=true

Note 1: Be sure to compile with make mainnet
Note 2: latest_version can be viewed here
Note 3: If this is the first time to run exchaind, we should install rocksdb first. OKTC team has provided a command to make rocksdb to help. You can try it in the exchain folder.
Note 4: If you encounter problems in the process of compiling rocksdb, please refer to this link

2. Using exchaind and genesis.json file#

# 1. Build exchaind with the latest version# latest_version can be viewed through this link https://github.com/okx/exchain/releases/latest
git clone -b ${latest_version} https://github.com/okx/exchain.git 
cd exchain
make mainnet  # Compile the mainnet, default WITH_ROCKSDB=true

# 2. Initialize exchain node configurations.export EXCHAIND_PATH=~/.exchaind (or other directory)
exchaind init your_custom_moniker --chain-id exchain-66 --home ${EXCHAIND_PATH}# 3. download genesis.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/okx/mainnet/main/genesis.json -O ${EXCHAIND_PATH}/config/genesis.json

# 4. start exchained# rpc node
exchaind start --home ${EXCHAIND_PATH}# validator node
exchaind start --node-mode=val --home ${EXCHAIND_PATH}# archive node
exchaind start --pruning=nothing --iavl-enable-async-commit=false --fast-query=false --home ${EXCHAIND_PATH}

Notice#

exchaind will put the state increment of each height into the memory, and after N block heights, it will persist uniformly. If the exchaind node is forced to exit, and restarted again, the state data would be lost, and data repair is required, so: It is strongly recommended that you should not force exit the exchaind node. With docker, it is strongly recommended to stop the container completely before performing other operations.

Steps#

Stop exchaind from the command line

#Both commands can be used, just choose one of the two kill -2 ${pid} kill -15 ${pid}
Stop exchaind in docker

docker stop -t 1200 or docker-compose down -t 1200

Check for normal exit#

After executing the exit command, if the following records appear in the log, it indicates that this smooth exit will not cause data corruption

I[2022-11-19|02:58:37.689][19369] exiting....module=main

3. Using docker and snapshots#

# 1. Initialize exchain node configurations. If the node already exists, this step can be skipped
export EXCHAIND_PATH=~/.exchaind (or other directory)
exchaind init your_custom_moniker --chain-id exchain-66 --home ${EXCHAIND_PATH}

# 2. download snapshot
rm -rf ${EXCHAIND_PATH}/data
cd ${EXCHAIND_PATH}
# This image uses rocksdb data, so download the rocksdb snapshot corresponding to the mainnet.
wget https://okg-pub-hk.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/cdn/chain/okc/snapshot/mainnet-$version-$date-$height-rocksdb.tar.gz
tar -zxvf mainnet-$version-$date-$height-rocksdb.tar.gz

# 3. download the docker image
docker pull okexchain/fullnode-mainnet:latest # This image uses rocksdb snapshot data.

# 4. run docker based the snapshot downloaded in the previous step Start based on snapshot.
docker run -d --name exchain-mainnet-fullnode -v ~/.exchaind/data:/root/.exchaind/data/ -p 8545:8545 -p 26656:26656 okexchain/fullnode-mainnet:latest

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