Blast

Instructions to set up your blast node.

Requirements

Setup your Axelar validator
Minimum hardware requirements: 8 AWS vCPU+, 8GB RAM, 512GB of SSD free storage space.
MacOS or Ubuntu 22.04 (tested on 22.04)
Official Github Documentation
Official Documentation for Node Providers

Prerequisites

Common Docker Compose Commands

sudo apt-get install jq -y
snap install docker

Clone Repo

git clone https://github.com/blast-io/deployment.git blast-node
cd blast-node

Set Node Config Environment Variables

cp .env.example .env

Set the following config options in blast-node/.env:

path to the directory that will store chain data
GETH_DATA_DIR=blast-geth-data # Your Ethereum L1 RPC endpoint
L1_RPC_URL="your_l1_rpc_url" # The type of RPC provider, valid options are
alchemy, quicknode, infura, parity, nethermind, debug_geth, erigon, basic,
any # Axelar Team recommends you to run your own L1_RPC_KIND="any"

path to the directory that will store chain data
GETH_DATA_DIR=blast-geth-data # Your Sepolia L1 RPC endpoint
L1_RPC_URL="your_l1_rpc_url" # The type of RPC provider, valid options are
alchemy, quicknode, infura, parity, nethermind, debug_geth, erigon, basic,
any # Axelar Team recommends you to run your own L1_RPC_KIND="any"

Start the node

docker compose up -d

This should show an output like this:

[+] Running 6/6
 ✔ Network blast-node_blast-net         Created                                                                                                              0.1s
 ✔ Network blast-node_default           Created                                                                                                              0.1s
 ✔ Container blast-node-generate-jwt-1  Exited                                                                                                               1.0s
 ✔ Container blast-node-geth-init-1     Exited                                                                                                               1.8s
 ✔ Container blast-node-blast-geth-1    Started                                                                                                              2.0s
 ✔ Container blast-node-op-node-1       Started                                                                                                              2.3s                                                                                                      11.2s

After it is done, verify by listing the services and their status

docker compose ps

You should see these 2 services running

NAME                      IMAGE                            COMMAND                  SERVICE             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS
blast-node-blast-geth-1   blastio/blast-geth:sepolia       "geth --datadir=/bla…"   blast-geth          4 hours ago         Up 4 hours          8545-8546/tcp, 30303/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9545-9546->9545-9546/tcp, :::9545-9546->9545-9546/tcp, 30303/udp
blast-node-op-node-1      blastio/blast-optimism:sepolia   "op-node --l1=https:…"   op-node             4 hours ago         Up 4 hours          0.0.0.0:9003->9003/tcp, :::9003->9003/tcp

Check logs

Verify blast geth logs

docker compose logs blast-geth --since 2m -f

blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-27|07:43:45.734] Started P2P networking                   self="enode://54139a54494808b5f9703b3858fc8fe0aaffa5902d41b1fc61f6c92bc003743d87c81e115120a2d5061bb1852fd04fb2851bb235e660462d0c107b7bed640302@127.0.0.1:30303?discport=0"
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-27|07:43:45.735] HTTP server started                      endpoint=[::]:9545 auth=false prefix= cors=* vhosts=*
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-27|07:43:45.735] WebSocket enabled                        url=ws://[::]:9546
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-27|07:43:45.735] WebSocket enabled                        url=ws://[::]:8551
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-27|07:43:45.735] HTTP server started                      endpoint=[::]:8551 auth=true  prefix= cors=localhost vhosts=*
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-04|07:42:29.722] Chain head was updated                   number=39537 hash=26c5c6..e67efa root=14a631..1e99bf elapsed=5.40331ms   age=2mo2w6d
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-04|07:42:29.734] Starting work on payload                 id=0x95a98a726f1398ee
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-04|07:42:29.751] Imported new potential chain segment     number=39538 hash=219454..97cd30 blocks=1 txs=1 mgas=0.051 elapsed=16.713ms    mgasps=3.022  age=2mo2w6d  triedirty=0.00B

It will not import new headers until your op-node is synced, once your op-node is synced, your blast-geth logs should look like this

blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-29|08:08:15.219] Starting work on payload                 id=0x48323feb74b0d35a
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-29|08:08:15.237] Imported new potential chain segment     number=3083 hash=96c535..584bd5 blocks=1 txs=1 mgas=0.047 elapsed=16.962ms    mgasps=2.768 age=1mo3w1d snapdiffs=606.60KiB triedirty=0.00B
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-29|08:08:15.243] Chain head was updated                   number=3083 hash=96c535..584bd5 root=52730a..6a9c02 elapsed=5.42431ms   age=1mo3w1d
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-29|08:08:15.256] Starting work on payload                 id=0x180234ae531457a1
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-29|08:08:15.274] Imported new potential chain segment     number=3084 hash=9687bc..de7e94 blocks=1 txs=1 mgas=0.047 elapsed=16.911ms    mgasps=2.776 age=1mo3w1d snapdiffs=606.78KiB triedirty=0.00B
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-29|08:08:15.285] Chain head was updated                   number=3084 hash=9687bc..de7e94 root=8081fb..43e327 elapsed=10.075637ms age=1mo3w1d
blast-node-blast-geth-1  | INFO [02-29|08:08:15.307] Starting work on payload                 id=0x44c95802c3652dbd

Verify OP node logs

docker compose logs op-node --since 2m -f

You should see logs like

blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:46+0000 lvl=info msg="Starting JSON-RPC server"
blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:46+0000 lvl=info msg="metrics disabled"
blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:46+0000 lvl=info msg="Starting execution engine driver"
blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:46+0000 lvl=info msg="Starting driver"                   sequencerEnabled=false sequencerStopped=false
blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:46+0000 lvl=info msg="Rollup node started"
blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:46+0000 lvl=info msg="State loop started"
blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:46+0000 lvl=info msg="Loaded current L2 heads"           unsafe=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 safe=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 finalized=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 unsafe_origin=0x17728cf4d8e0b4f292d2390a869fd7c632d39e72efb00ca3462b4387c6aa2437:5044255 safe_origin=0x17728cf4d8e0b4f292d2390a869fd7c632d39e72efb00ca3462b4387c6aa2437:5044255
blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:47+0000 lvl=info msg="Walking back L1Block by number"    curr=0x17728cf4d8e0b4f292d2390a869fd7c632d39e72efb00ca3462b4387c6aa2437:5044255 next=0x17728cf4d8e0b4f292d2390a869fd7c632d39e72efb00ca3462b4387c6aa2437:5044255 l2block=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0
blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:47+0000 lvl=info msg="Hit finalized L2 head, returning immediately" unsafe=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 safe=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 finalized=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 unsafe_origin=0x17728cf4d8e0b4f292d2390a869fd7c632d39e72efb00ca3462b4387c6aa2437:5044255 safe_origin=0x17728cf4d8e0b4f292d2390a869fd7c632d39e72efb00ca3462b4387c6aa2437:5044255
blast-node-op-node-1  | t=2024-02-27T07:43:47+0000 lvl=info msg="Sync progress"                     reason="reset derivation work" l2_finalized=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 l2_safe=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 l2_unsafe=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 l2_engineSyncTarget=0x26a1c0faad7b041f34569a1bb383f00ab74b335883a44bed53e9f41ced5fd906:0 l2_time=1,704,686,688 l1_derived=0x17728cf4d8e0b4f292d2390a869fd7c632d39e72efb00ca3462b4387c6aa2437:5044255

Verify node sync status

RPC Endpoint

echo "$(curl -4 ifconfig.co):9545"

Method:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data     '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[],"id":1}' [rpc] | jq

If you get something like this in response to the above rpc call, your node is setup correctly

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x09A"
}

Sync Status of Blast optimism Execution Node

You can check your status by connecting to geth console

docker exec -it blast-node-blast-geth-1 geth attach http://localhost:9545
> eth.blockNumber
94078 # it will show you the latest block - number here is just an example

> eth.syncing
false

You can compare the block height on your node with explorer (mainnet or testnet), use your RPC node only when it has caught up with the latest block height.

Configure vald

In order for vald to connect to your Blast node, your rpc_addr should be exposed in vald’s config.toml

start-with-bridge = true