Setup Nodehot

Nodehot Modes

Nodehot generally runs in two modes:

Producing Node
Non-Producing Node

Producing Nodes will connect to the peer to peer network and actively produce new blocks. Non-Producing Nodes will connect to the peer to peer network, however, in this mode nodehot does not actively produce new blocks, it will simply verify blocks and maintain a local copy of the blockchain. Non-Producing Nodes can be used for monitoring the blockchain.

Producing Node

Register your account as a producer

In order for your account to be eligible as a producer, you will need to register the account as a producer.

Example using `clhot system regproducer`

clhot system regproducer accountname1 HOT1234534... http://producer.site Europe

Set Producer Name

Set the producer-name option in config.ini to your account, like so

producer-name = youraccount

Set the Producer’s signature-provider

You will need to set the private key for your producer. The public key should have an authority for the producer account defined above.

signature-provider is defined with a tuple

public-key - A valid HOT public key in form of a string.
provider-spec - It’s a string formatted like :

Like so

signature-provider = PUBLIC_SIGNING_KEY=KEY:PRIVATE_SIGNING_KEY 
# Example 
# signature-provider = HOT6MRyAjQq8ud7hVNYcfnVPJqcVpscN5So8BhtHuGYqET5GDW5CV=KEY:5KQwrPbwdL6PhXujxW37FSSQZ1JiwsST4cqQzDeyXtP79zkvFD3 

Define a peers list

# Default p2p port is 9011
p2p-peer-address = s1.hotwallet.tech:9011

Load the Required Plugins

In your config.ini, confirm the following plugins are loading or append them if necessary.

plugin = eosio::chain_plugin 
plugin = eosio::producer_plugin

Non-Producing Node

A non-producing node is a node that is not configured to produce blocks. An example use case would be to provide a synchronized node that provides a public HTTP-RPC API for developers or as a dedicated private endpoint for your app.

To setup a non-producing node is simple.

Set Peers

You need to set some peers in your config ini, for example

p2p-peer-address = s1.hotwallet.tech:9011

Or you can include the peer in as a boot flag, like so

--p2p-peer-address=s1.hotwallet.tech:9011