Gaia is the first implementation of the Cosmos Hub, built using the Cosmos SDK. Gaia and other Cosmos Hubs allow fully sovereign blockchains to interact with one another using a protocol called IBC that enables Inter-Blockchain Communication.
This assumes that you're running Linux or MacOS and have installed Go 1.14+. This guide helps you:
- build and install Gaia
- allow you to name your node
- add seeds to your config file
- download genesis state
- start your node
- use gaiacli to check the status of your node.
Build, Install, and Name your Node:
# Clone Gaia from the latest release found here: https://github.com/cosmos/gaia/releases
git clone -b <latest_release> https://github.com/cosmos/gaia
# Enter the folder Gaia was cloned into
cd gaia
# Compile and install Gaia
make install
# Initialize Gaiad in ~/.gaiad and name your node
gaiad init yournodenamehereAdd Seeds:
# Edit config.toml
nano ~/.gaiad/config/config.tomlScroll down to seeds in config.toml, and add some of these seeds as a comma-separated list:
ba3bacc714817218562f743178228f23678b2873@5.83.160.108:26656
1e63e84945837b026f596ed8ae68708783d04ad4@51.75.145.123:26656
d2d452e7c9c43fa5ef017552688de60a5c0053ee@34.245.217.163:26656
dd36969b56c740bb40bb8badd4d4c6facc35dc24@206.189.115.41:26656
a0aca8fb801c69653a290bd44872e8457f8b0982@47.99.180.54:26656
27f8dd3bdbecbef7192291083706c156e523d8e0@3.122.248.21:26656
aee0df1a660f301d456a0c2f805b372f7341e8ec@63.35.230.143:26656
7d1f660b361d6286715c098a3a171e554e9642bb@34.254.205.37:26656
fa105c2291ac4aa452552fa4835266300a8209e1@88.198.41.62:26656
bd410d4564f7e0dd9a0eb16a64c337a059e11b80@47.103.35.130:26656Download Genesis, Start your Node, Check your Node Status:
# Download genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.gaiad/config/genesis.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cosmos/launch/master/genesis.json
# Start Gaiad
gaiad start
# Check your node's status with gaiacli
gaiacli statusWelcome to the Cosmos!
We have active, helpful communities on Twitter, Discord, and Telegram.
With each version of the Cosmos Hub, the chain is restarted from a new Genesis state. We are currently on cosmoshub-3. Archives of the state of cosmoshub-1 and cosmoshub-2 are available here.
Gaia is not related to the React-Cosmos project (yet). Many thanks to Evan Coury and Ovidiu (@skidding) for this Github organization name. Per our agreement, this disambiguation notice will stay here.