Guide to running a Zora Node

Requirements

To run the Zora node, you need to meet the following conditions:

• at least 16 GB RAM
• an SSD drive with at least 200 GB free

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Guide to running Zora node

Install docker

Add Docker's official GPG key:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg

sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

Add the repository to Apt sources:

echo \ 

  "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \ 

  "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \ 

 sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose -y

Clone Conduit Github repository

git clone https://github.com/conduitxyz/node.git

Access the node directory

cd node

Download Zora Mainnet Folder

./download-config.py zora-mainnet-0

Set the value for the Conduit Network

export CONDUIT_NETWORK=zora-mainnet-0

Create APIs on Alchemy

Add your APIs to the environment file

 
cp .env.example .env 

nano .env

Replace "http://11rpc" with the Alchemy Account API key you created in the previous step.

After pasting your API into the nano file, press Ctrl + S to save the file and Ctrl + X to exit the file.

Start Screen Session

screen -S log

To start the Zora node, use the following command:

docker compose up --build

The instructions for running this node are referenced from Blokdrops and Conduit Network. If you encounter any errors during the process, you can join the Telegram group for assistance from our team in fixing bugs.