This is now archived because erigon has a native concensus layer built in now.
This repository holds the tools and commands that can be used to quickly deploy your own ETH Lighthouse node by downloading pre-built snapshots and installing them on an instance.
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This project does come at a high personal cost. I do not represent a company and AWS costs to maintain this these projects has averaged about $700USD/mo that comes out of my pocket directly.
Please consider donating especially if you are using this project to make money. I am considering changing the license from Apache (extremely permissive) to something that requires a license (ie: fee) if you derive money from it. I would like to avoid this at all costs though!
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All Lighthouse beacon snapshots are hosted on S3 on the following path: | s3://public-blockchain-snapshots/lighthouse/mainnet/beacon/
This path is public, but is configured as requester-pays. This means you'll need an AWS account in order access/download them. You may greatly reduce this cost to nearly zero by using AWS in us-west-2 region. In such case, you should only need to pay for the cost of the api request (ie: <$0.10USD).
As reference code I have provided: build_lighthouse_beacon_node.sh in this repo.
To build a server capable of running an archive node (this assumes ubuntu 22.04):
- Get an AWS account and ensure it is configured on the computer (I strongly encourage you to run this in AWS's EC2 on
im4gn.2xlargeor larger/similar inus-west-2) - Checkout this repo to the computer
- Run
sudo ./build_lighthouse_beacon_node.sh. - When it is done, it should be serving a lighthouse beacon node.
Note: It is recommended that you verify the block chain state for safety/security. You will likely need an erigon or geth node to also be running and configured. You can see an example of this in the Ethereum Archive Snapshot repository.
This repository is licensed under Apache-2.0 license