Building and running from source [advanced]

This section is intended for power users who are sure what they are doing: it is not recommended by default.

The differences with the Testnet procedure as as follows:

The code version

In the aleph-node repository, you need to checkout the tag returned by https://alephzero.org/developers#developer-resources (Mainnet section).

Environment variables

Same as on the Testnet.

The database snapshot

Needs to be downloaded from: https://azero-snapshots.dev/mainnet/rocksdb-pruned.html This link will always point to the latest version of the snapshot, taken weekly.

You need to save it to chains/mainnet in your data directory.

The chainspec

You can download the chainspec from: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cardinal-Cryptography/aleph-node/r-15.2.0/bin/node/src/resources/mainnet_chainspec.json , where r-15.2.0is Mainnet version tag taken from https://alephzero.org/developers#developer-resources (Mainnet section).

The bootnodes

In your environment, set the BOOT_NODES to:

BOOT_NODES=/dns4/bootnode-eu-central-1-0.azero.dev/tcp/30333/p2p/12D3KooWEF1Eo7uFZWdqFsTPP7CehpRt5NeXFwCe3157qpoU5aqd/dns4/bootnode-eu-central-1-1.azero.dev/tcp/30333/p2p/12D3KooWSeKnKHwumcVuWz2g5wn5xyWZpZJzuZXHJrEdpi8bj4HR/dns4/bootnode-us-east-1-0.azero.dev/tcp/30333/p2p/12D3KooWFQSGvQii2gRGB5T4M6TXhM83JV4bTEhubCBpdoR6Rkwk/dns4/bootnode-us-east-1-1.azero.dev/tcp/30333/p2p/12D3KooWSX2TbzpengsKsXdNPs6g2aQpp91qduL5FPax2SqgCaxa