Cardano Node Installation and Configuration Guide
Cardano Node 8.1.1
Cardano Node 8.1.1
  • Cardano Node 8.1.1
  • Installation Guide (Ubuntu / Debian)
    • Creating a user for Cardano Node
  • Adding SWAP (virtual ) memory
  • Getting ready to install the Cardano Node (v8.1.1)
  • Cardano Node Installation process
  • Cardano Relay Configuration
    • Cardano Relay Configuration
    • Downloading Cardano Blockchain
    • Launching Cardano Relay Node
  • Cardano Block Producer configuration
    • Installing the StakePool Operator Scripts (SPOS)
    • Generating wallet keys
    • Generating Cardano Block producer keys
    • Launching your Cardano BP node!
  • Installing Ubuntu on Google Cloud Platform
  • Cardano Node Upgrades
    • Upgrade to 8.1.1 from 8.0.0
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  1. Cardano Relay Configuration

Downloading Cardano Blockchain

Quick way to start your Cardano node

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Synchronizing the Cardano blockchain from scratch will take a long time, depending on your CPU and network connection it could take up to several days.

We will use the service to download the latest snapshot for a faster boot.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install liblz4-tool jq curl -y

downloading and extracting the DB archive (to save space, it will stream the archive and extract it on the fly - without storing the downloaded archive itself)

first - let's delete old files:

rm -rf /home/cardano/cnode/db 

Downloading the latest blockchain archive

curl -o - https://downloads.csnapshots.io/snapshots/mainnet/$(curl -s https://downloads.csnapshots.io/snapshots/mainnet/mainnet-db-snapshot.json| jq -r .[].file_name ) | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C /home/cardano/cnode/
curl -o - https://downloads.csnapshots.io/snapshots/testnet/$(curl -s https://downloads.csnapshots.io/snapshots/testnet/testnet-db-snapshot.json| jq -r .[].file_name ) | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C /home/cardano/cnode/

Wait till it downloads, it could take a while, based on your internet speed. (Mainnet archive is >60GB; TestNet is <1GB)

cSnapshots.io