Syncing A Node

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All nodes joining the network are recommended to sync from a snapshot. This is the default behavior of Forest.

Syncing from genesis (tipset 0) is generally infeasible.

Once started, Forest will connect to the bootstrap peers and in parallel fetch the latest snapshot from Forest's snapshot service. Once the snapshot is downloaded, it will be loaded into the node, and then syncing will continue by utilizing its peers.

Mainnet

forest

Calibnet

forest --chain calibnet

Monitoring Sync Status

In another shell:

forest-cli sync status