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How to Run A Fullnode on Kai Chain

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 kaichain_mainnet.json and static-nodes.json from https://github.com/kaichain

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaichain/chains/refs/heads/main/nodes/kaichain_mainnet.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaichain/chains/refs/heads/main/nodes/static-nodes.json

Make node folder

mkdir node

Initialize the Node 

./geth --datadir ./node init kaichain_mainnet.json

Copy the static-nodes.json to node/geth

Run the Nodes

./geth --datadir node1 --syncmode 'full' --gcmode=archive   --port 40605 --http --http.port 3545 --http.api 'personal,eth,net,web3,personal,admin,miner,txpool,debug' --bootnodes enode://b4beb0cab8b5f925fcbf40e13c0ecd3b4b7f394c07784f9aee3739b0a316d89ec4552a4eb033f834fd5ef931a11d11f85d70f7781d82513de65de32757a21594@202.143.110.67:0?discport=40606 --networkid 61406 -unlock '0xf32d3C2cC0e32eb36a0AF24d0B72E43AE41b0230' --allow-insecure-unlock