Stacks 2.5 - Public Testnet

Cheat sheet for syncing testnet from archive

Resources

Get the latest data files from Hiro archives following Hiro documentation for a) running stacks node and b) running API node from archived data and noting Hiro product updates.

This how to uses the following archives;

1. Stacks 2.5 Rc0 testnet

2. Stacks API latest testnet

Procedure

At a glance;

1. Stacks blockchain data

   • download and extract archive (20 mins o testnet)

   • unpack into 'working_dir' in stacks node config file

2. Stacks blockchain API data

   • download dumpfile

   • use pg_restore to load the data into postgres (20 mins on testnnet)

   • run the api node

3. clone stacks blockchain and switch to current (2.05) release candidate

   • cargo build

   • run the node

   • run the signer