testnet-node

Testnet Node

This is the easiest way to get a Babylon fullnode up and running, for integration development.

This set-up is only intended for local running as a developer - it is not intended for running in production - see our documentation site for information on running a production node.

The node connects to the our public testnet, called stokenet, you will need to wipe the ledger database as documented in the "Ledger Database" section below.

Documentation for integrators is available here.

Getting started

1. Install docker version 20.10+ with docker compose - either by installing docker desktop, or by installing plain docker and the compose CLI extension.
2. Ensure docker compose runs successfully, printing out the docs for docker compose. If you see an error such as compose is not a command, please ensure you are running docker with the compose extension as above. (NOTE: We are using the future-proof docker compose command, rather than the legacy docker-compose).
3. Ensure your docker daemon is configured with high enough limits, and you have sufficient disk space. We recommend updating the docker limits to at least 2 CPUs, 4GB RAM and 100GB disk size. In Docker Desktop, you can configure this by navigating to Preferences > Resources.
4. Run ./run.sh in this folder, or run docker compose up --build.
5. The node will start syncing. You can see how close to synced-up you are by running this query and examining the ledger_clock.date_time field:

curl \
  'http://localhost:3333/core/lts/transaction/construction' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ "network": "zabanet" }'

Running without compose

If you wanted to run without using compose you can do so like

docker run -p 127.0.0.1:3333:3333 127.0.0.1:3334:3334 127.0.0.1:3335:3335 127.0.0.1:3336:3336 127.0.0.1:3337:3337 -v ledger-data:/home/radixdlt/RADIXDB -v key-data:/home/radixdlt/key --env-file radix-node.env radixdlt/babylon-node:rcnet-v2-phase2-r4

Node volumes

The node makes use of some persistent data, which is set up to be stored as docker volumes.

Ledger database

The ledger database is stored in a docker volume called ledger-data.

Sometimes if updating to a new version of the node, a ledger wipe is needed. To wipe the ledger, run: docker volume rm radixdlt-babylon-node-testnet-node_ledger-data to remove the ledger-data volume. You may need to first remove the container which is using the volume, with docker rm radixdlt-stokenet-node. See all containers with docker ps --all.

Key pair

A node in the network is identified by its public key.

A keystore containing a keypair is automatically generated on startup and stored inside a docker volume called key-data, protected by default with password "password".

Local builds

If you decide you want to run using locally built images (i.e. you want to add & test your own custom endpoint) change

        image: radixdlt/babylon-node:<tag>

with

        build:
            context: ..
            dockerfile: Dockerfile

And then ./run.sh in this folder.

Debugging

It might happen that you stumble across:

com.sleepycat.je.DiskLimitException: (JE 18.3.12) Disk usage is not within je.maxDisk or je.freeDisk limits and write operations are prohibited: maxDiskLimit=0 freeDiskLimit=5,368,709,120 adjustedMaxDiskLimit=0 maxDiskOverage=0 freeDiskShortage=28,782,592 diskFreeSpace=5,339,926,528 availableLogSize=-28,782,592 totalLogSize=1,915,298 activeLogSize=1,915,298 reservedLogSize=0 protectedLogSize=0 protectedLogSizeMap={}

This means you have (almost) reached the virtual disk memory limit of docker. You simply need to increase the limit.