Empower Snapshots

To help validators to deploy or recover quickly,
we provide daily archives of the Blockchain from high-performance infrastructure.

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Snapshots instructions

Quick instructions

systemctl stop empower.service
cp $HOME/.empowerchain/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.empowerchain/priv_validator_state.json.backup
mv $HOME/.empowerchain/data $HOME/.empowerchain/data.backup

curl -L ... | tar -Ilz4 -xf - -C $HOME/.empowerchain

cp $HOME/.empowerchain/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.empowerchain/data/priv_validator_state.json
systemctl start empower.service

Detailled instructions

1. Install dependencies if needed
sudo apt install curl tar jq lz4 -y
2. Stop the node
systemctl stop empower.service
3. Remove old data
# Always backup priv_validator_state.json on validator node, to avoid double-sign
cp $HOME/.empowerchain/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.empowerchain/priv_validator_state.json.backup

If possible, keep this backup until your node is running
mv $HOME/.empowerchain/data $HOME/.empowerchain/data.backup
4. Download snapshot
curl -L ... | tar -Ilz4 -xf - -C $HOME/.empowerchain

# Always restore priv_validator_state.json on validator node, to avoid double-sign
cp $HOME/.empowerchain/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.empowerchain/data/priv_validator_state.json
5. Start the node
systemctl start empower.service
6. Monitor your node
journalctl -u empower

# Is your node catching up?
curl http://localhost:26657/status | jq .result.sync_info
7. Clean-up
rm -rf $HOME/.empowerchain/data.backup

Others Tools & Services

BlueStake contribute to Empower Testnet by offering several tools and services,
tailored for users, developers, and node operators.

State-Sync

We help node operators to quickly boostrap a node by providing state-sync servers.

RPC & LCD endpoints

We provide public RPC and API endpoints to developers, node operators and users.

Peering

We provide seeds and live-peers to allow node operators to efficiently connect a node