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Running a Single Node Network

Especially for things like contract development, it can be very useful to be able to run a single node network for testing. This document will outline the steps that are required in order to configure a fetchd network of 1 node.

Network Setup

These steps only need to be done once in order to setup the local network.

Step 1 - Build the ledger from source

Follow the build instructions in order to compile the latest version of the ledger.

Step 2 - Remove any existing networks

Since we are starting a new network we need to remove any local files that we have in our system from a previous network

rm -Rf ~/.fetchd

Step 3 - Create an initial genesis

Create the initial genesis file (~/.fetchd/config/genesis.json) with the following command:

fetchd init --chain-id localnet-1 my-local-node-name

  • localnet-1 is the chain id
  • my-local-node-name is the moniker for the node

If you want to make any updates to the genesis, it is a good opportunity to make these updates now.

Step 4 - Create your validator key

In the following steps we will need to create the public/private keypair for our node.

To create a new key called "validator" use the following command.

fetchd keys add validator

  • validator is the name of the key in the keyring

For more information checkout the complete documentation on keys.

Step 5 - Adding the validator to the network

To set the initial state for the network use the following command. This allocates 100000000000000000000 stake tokens to the validator which can be bonded.

fetchd add-genesis-account validator 100000000000000000000stake

Step 6 - Generating a validator transaction

To get your validator to sign the genesis block (and to agree that this is the correct genesis starting point) use the following command.

fetchd gentx validator 100000000000000000000stake --chain-id localnet-1

  • validator here is the name that you have given to the key

Step 7 - Building the complete genesis

To build final genesis configuration for the network run the following command

fetchd collect-gentxs

After running this command the network is successfully configured and you have computed the final genesis configuration for the network.

Running the local node

To run the network use the following command.

`fetchd start`

Resetting the network

Often you will want to clear out all the data from the network and start again. To do that in a local network simply run the following command:

`fetchd unsafe-reset-all`

This resets the chain back to genesis, you DO NOT need to perform the network setup steps again. After running this command you can simply run the fetchd start command again.

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