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How to Run a Morph Node

Run a Morph Full Node​

This guide outlines the steps to start a Morph node. The example assumes the home directory is ~/.morph

Hardware requirements​

Running the morph node requires 2 processes:geth and node.

tip

Due to limitations in the current geth implementation, only archive mode is supported, meaning the storage size will continually increase with produced blocks.

Build executable binary​

Clone morph​

mkdir -p ~/.morph 
cd ~/.morph
git clone https://github.com/morph-l2/morph.git

Currently, we use tag v0.2.0-beta as our beta version.

cd morph
git checkout v0.2.0-beta

Build Geth​

Notice: You need C compiler to build geth

make nccc_geth

Build Node​

cd ~/.morph/morph/node 
make build

Sync from genesis block​

Config Preparation​

Download the config files and make data dir

cd ~/.morph
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/morph-l2/config-template/main/holesky/data.zip
unzip data.zip

Create a shared secret with node

cd ~/.morph
openssl rand -hex 32 > jwt-secret.txt

Script to start the process​

Geth

./morph/go-ethereum/build/bin/geth --morph-holesky \
    --datadir "./geth-data" \
    --http --http.api=web3,debug,eth,txpool,net,engine \
    --authrpc.addr localhost \
    --authrpc.vhosts="localhost" \
    --authrpc.port 8551 \
    --authrpc.jwtsecret=./jwt-secret.txt \
    --miner.gasprice="100000000" \
    --log.filename=./geth.log

tail -f geth.log to check if the Geth is running properly, or you can also exeucte the below curl command to check if you are connected to the peer.

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data 
'{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"net_peerCount","params":[],"id":74}' 
localhost:8545

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":74,"result":"0x3"}

Node

./morph/node/build/bin/morphnode --home ./node-data \
     --l2.jwt-secret ./jwt-secret.txt \
     --l2.eth http://localhost:8545 \
     --l2.engine http://localhost:8551 \
     --log.filename ./node.log

tail -f node.log to check if the node is running properly, and you can also execute the command curl to check your node connection status.

curl http://localhost:26657/net_info

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": -1,
  "result": {
    "listening": true,
    "listeners": [
      "Listener(@)"
    ],
    "n_peers": "3",
    "peers": [
      {
        "node_info": {
          "protocol_version": {
            "p2p": "8",
            "block": "11",
            "app": "0"
          },
          "id": "0fb5ce425197a462a66de015ee5fbbf103835b8a",
          "listen_addr": "tcp://0.0.0.0:26656",
          "network": "chain-morph-holesky",
          "version": "0.37.0-alpha.1",
          "channels": "4020212223386061",
          "moniker": "morph-dataseed-node-1",
          "other": {
            "tx_index": "on",
            "rpc_address": "tcp://0.0.0.0:26657"
          }
        },
        "is_outbound": true,

Check sync status​

curl http://localhost:26657/status to check the sync status of the node

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": -1,
  "result": {
    "node_info": {
      "protocol_version": {
        "p2p": "8",
        "block": "11",
        "app": "0"
      },
      "id": "b3f34dc2ce9c4fee5449426992941aee1e09670f",
      "listen_addr": "tcp://0.0.0.0:26656",
      "network": "chain-morph-holesky",
      "version": "0.37.0-alpha.1",
      "channels": "4020212223386061",
      "moniker": "my-morph-node",
      "other": {
        "tx_index": "on",
        "rpc_address": "tcp://0.0.0.0:26657"
      }
    },
    "sync_info": {
      "latest_block_hash": "71024385DDBEB7B554DB11FD2AE097ECBD99B2AF826C11B2A74F7172F2DEE5D2",
      "latest_app_hash": "",
      "latest_block_height": "2992",
      "latest_block_time": "2024-04-25T13:48:27.647889852Z",
      "earliest_block_hash": "C7A73D3907C6CA34B9DFA043FC6D4529A8EAEC8F059E100055653E46E63F6F8E",
      "earliest_app_hash": "",
      "earliest_block_height": "1",
      "earliest_block_time": "2024-04-25T09:06:30Z",
      "catching_up": false
    },
    "validator_info": {
      "address": "5FB3D3734640792F14B70E7A53FBBD39DB9787A8",
      "pub_key": {
        "type": "tendermint/PubKeyEd25519",
        "value": "rzN67ZJWsaLSGGpNj7HOWs8nrL5kr1n+w0OckWUCetw="
      },
      "voting_power": "0"
    }
  }
}

The returned "catching_up" indicates whether the node is in sync or not. True means it is in sync. Meanwhile, the returned latest_block_height indicates the latest block height this node synced.