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How to Run A Fullnode on Fokawa

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 fkw_mainnet.json and static-nodes.json from https://github.com/fokawadevs/FokawaNetwork

wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fokawadevs/FokawaNetwork/master/fkw_mainnet.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fokawadevs/FokawaNetwork/master/static-nodes.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fokawadevs/FokawaNetwork/master/geth

Make node folder

mkdir node

Initialize the Node 

./geth --datadir ./node init fkw_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://66bf49af0d53de7db8bf6356fdc85da77fbca1b7868c1930cce97c854633af117a3ed361bedb3727df7a36f3e7216fab848cd95a7cec8c7ef49a96a81c6a4eb2@172.31.24.120:0?discport=40606 --networkid 40821 --allow-insecure-unlock