Binance Smart Chain node

Steps for getting BSC testnet node running

Step 1: Download Binance Smart Chain node

BSC node can be downloaded from GitHub or built from sources. For the purposes of simplifying the process, this guide will only cover downloading a pre-built binary. It can be downloaded from the terminal using

$ wget https://github.com/binance-chain/bsc/releases/download/v1.1.0-beta/geth_linux
$ mv geth_linux geth
$ chmod +x geth

Step 2: Downloading Binance Smart Chain configuration

Configuration can be obtained from GitHub as well. It can be downloaded and extracted from the terminal as well using

$ wget https://github.com/binance-chain/bsc/releases/download/v1.1.0-beta/testnet.zip
$ unzip testnet.zip

Step 3: Writing genesis state locally

In order to prepare the node for the start, initialize genesis state using

$ ./geth --datadir ./node init genesis.json

You can replace ./node with a path to where you want to store the node data

Step 4: Starting the node

You can start the node in your current terminal session using

./geth --config ./config.toml --datadir ./node --cache 18000 --txlookuplimit 0 --ws --ws.api eth

Node launched this way, will close as soon as you end your terminal session. In order to make this node persistent, you should use tmux, screen or your initialization system of choice (systemd, openrc, etc.)