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Worldchain

The snapshot service for Worldchain is available here.

Whether you need to bootstrap your full node, you can use our daily snapshot service to speed up the process.

Note: the nodes used for snapshotting are using the archive pruning values of Worldchain and are hosted as Systemd services on machines using Ubuntu 22.04.

Go to our Worldchain snapshot service and download the latest available snapshot. Decompress the archive as per the following instructions and start your node.

1. Download the snapshot

wget <WORLDCHAIN_SNAPSHOT_URL>

2. Stop your Worldchain service

If Worldchain was already running on your machine, stop your services:

sudo systemctl stop <WORLDCHAIN_GETH_SERVICE>
sudo systemctl stop <WORLDCHAIN_OP_NODE_SERVICE>

OR if you are using the recommended docker compose setup:

docker compose down

Make sure there is no process running that might try to write to the database.

3. Clean the data directory

Make sure your Worldchain data directory is clean (let us assume <WORLDCHAIN_HOME> is your root Worldchain directory):

rm -rf <WORLDCHAIN_HOME>/geth/chaindata
rm -rf <WORLDCHAIN_HOME>/geth/lightchaindata

4. Install lz4 and decompress the archive

sudo apt-get install lz4
lz4 -c -d <WORLDCHAIN_SNAPSHOT_NAME>.tar.lz4  | tar -x -C <WORLDCHAIN_HOME>/geth/

5. Start the Worldchain service or container

You should be in-sync with the network in minutes after starting the node.

Also check the official documentation and the GitHub repository posted above to correctly deploy the node of your choice.

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