The WormholesChain solves the blockchain trilemma, which entails a necessary tradeoff between scalability, security, and decentralization, by building the technology to achieve the ideal balance between these three metrics, creating a highly scalable and secure blockchain system that doesn’t sacrifice decentralization.
The significant step before spinning up your node is choosing your approach. Based on requirements and many potential possibilities, you must select the client implementation (of both execution and consensus clients), the environment (hardware, system), and the parameters for client settings.
To decide whether to run the software on your hardware or in the cloud depending on your demands.
You can use the startup script to start your node after preparing the environment.
When the node is running and syncing, you are ready to use it, but make sure to keep an eye on its maintenance.
Wormholes clients are able to run on consumer-grade computers and do not require any special hardware, such as mining machines. Therefore, you have more options for deploying the node based on your demands. let us think about running a node on both a local physical machine and a cloud server:
Wormholes clients can run on your computer, laptop, server, or even a single-board computer. Although running clients on different devices are possible, it had better use a dedicated machine to enhance its performance and underpin the security, which can minimize the impact on your computer.
Hardware requirements differ by the client but generally are not that high since the node just needs to stay synced.
Do not confuse it with mining, which requires much more computing power. However , sync time and performance do improve with more powerful hardware.
- CPU: Main frequency 2.9GHz, 4 cores or above CPU.
- Memory: Capacity 8GB or more.
- Hard Disk: Capacity 500GB or more.
- Network bandwidth: 6M uplink and downlink peer-to-peer rate or higher
Before installing the client, please ensure your computer has enough resources to run it. You can find the minimum and recommended requirements below.
Running your node benefits you a lot, including opening more possibilities, and helping to support the ecosystem. This page will guide you through spinning up your node and taking part in validating Wormholes transactions.
The actual client setup can be done by using the automatic launcher or manually.For ordinary users, we recommend you use a startup script, which guides you through the installation and automates the client setup process. However, if you have experience with the terminal, the manual setup steps should be easy to follow.
You must ensure that docker has been installed. If it is not, please install docker first. For details, please refer to the Rookie Tutorial. Or ignore it if already installed.
Taking the Linux system as an example, the script Wormholes_install.sh to run the node can be named accordingly.
#!/bin/bash
#check docker cmd
which docker >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
echo "docker not found, please install first!"
echo "ubuntu:sudo apt install docker.io -y"
echo "centos:yum install -y docker-ce "
echo "fedora:sudo dnf install -y docker-ce"
exit
fi
#check docker service
docker ps > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
echo "docker service is not running! you can use command start it:"
echo "sudo service docker start"
exit
fi
docker stop wormholes > /dev/null 2>&1
docker rm wormholes > /dev/null 2>&1
docker rmi wormholestech/wormholes:v1 > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ -d /wm/.wormholes/keystore ]; then
read -p "Whether to clear the Wormholes blockchain data history, if yes, press the “y” button, and if not, click “enter.”：" xyz
if [ "$xyz" = 'y' ]; then
rm -rf /wm/.wormholes
read -p "Enter your private key：" ky
else
echo "Do not clear"
fi
else
read -p "Please import your private key：" ky
fi
mkdir -p /wm/.wormholes/wormholes
if [ -n "$ky" ]; then
echo $ky > /wm/.wormholes/wormholes/nodekey
fi
docker run -id -e KEY=$ky -p 30303:30303 -p 8545:8545 -v /wm/.wormholes:/wm/.wormholes --name wormholes wormholestech/wormholes:v1
echo "Your private key is:"
sleep 6
docker exec -it wormholes /usr/bin/cat /wm/.wormholes/wormholes/nodekey