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Quick start - Linux/macOS#

This page takes you through the steps of getting the Fluffy Portal node running on the public network.

The guide assumes Linux or macOS is being used. For Windows users follow this tutorial.

Steps#

Prerequisites#

  • Developer tools (C compiler, Make, Bash, CMake, Git 2.9.4 or newer)

If you need help installing these tools, you can consult our prerequisites page.

Build the Fluffy client#

git clone git@github.com:status-im/nimbus-eth1.git
cd nimbus-eth1
make fluffy

# Test if binary was successfully build by running the help command.
./build/fluffy --help

Run a Fluffy client on the public testnet#

# Connect to the Portal testnet bootstrap nodes and enable the JSON-RPC APIs
./build/fluffy --rpc

Try requesting a execution layer block from the network#

The Portal testnet is slowly being filled up with historical data through bridge nodes. Because of this, more recent history data is more likely to be available. This can be tested by using the eth_getBlockByHash JSON-RPC from the execution JSON-RPC API.

# Get the hash of a block from your favorite block explorer, e.g.:
BLOCKHASH=0x34eea44911b19f9aa8c72f69bdcbda3ed933b11a940511b6f3f58a87427231fb # Replace this to the block hash of your choice
# Run this command to get the block:
curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"eth_getBlockByHash","params":["'${BLOCKHASH}'", true]}' http://localhost:8545 | jq

Update and rebuild the Fluffy client#

In order to stay up to date you can pull the latest version from our master branch. There are currently released versions tagged.

# From the nimbus-eth1 repository
git pull
# To bring the git submodules up to date
make update

make fluffy