node-light.example.toml

# rustock light node configuration.
#
#   rustock --config /etc/rustock/node-light.toml
#
# A node that follows the chain and serves current state, on a few gigabytes
# instead of forty-five. It keeps the state, the recent blocks, and the whole
# Bridge event history; it gives up old blocks, old state, and the ability to
# serve either to anyone else.
#
# Measured against this project's mainnet node, which holds everything:
#
#     state (epoch, 4 epochs)      2.1 GB      kept
#     block database              33.6 GB      ~30 MB of it kept
#     header freezer               9.5 GB      not used at all
#
# This file is the reference `node.example.toml` with the handful of settings
# a light node changes UNCOMMENTED and marked `# light:`. Everything else is
# commented out and still states its default, so the uncommented lines are
# exactly what makes this profile different.
#
#   key = value     # light: why          deliberately not the default
#   # key = value   # default             the value shown IS the default
#   # key = ...     # default: unset      no default; shape illustration
#
# What you give up, stated plainly:
#
#   - Blocks below `head - keep_depth` are gone. `eth_getBlockByNumber`,
#     `eth_getTransactionByHash` and `eth_getTransactionReceipt` answer `null`
#     for them, and `eth_getLogs` cannot see them. Genesis is kept.
#   - State older than the collection window is gone, so historical
#     `eth_call` and `eth_getBalance` at an old block stop working.
#   - This node cannot serve blocks, headers or snapshots to other peers past
#     its own window. It takes history from the network and returns none, so
#     run one of these because you need a wallet or an endpoint, not as a
#     contribution to the network.
#
# What you keep: Bridge events. They live in their own index, self-contained,
# and nothing here deletes them -- the peg stays debuggable on a node that has
# thrown its blocks away.
#
# Unknown keys are an ERROR rather than being ignored, so a typo is reported
# instead of silently leaving a setting at its default.
#
# One-shot operations (--import-*, --repair, --trie-tool-*, --probe-*,
# --build-*, --metadata-*) are command-line only. They run and then exit, so a
# node that re-ran an import on every start would be a trap, not a convenience.

[node]
# port = 30303                      # default — P2P listen port
# data_dir = "./data"               # default — database and node key
# network_id = 30                   # default — 30 mainnet, 31 testnet
# secret_key = "…"                  # default: unset — hex node key; generated and stored if unset
# external_ip = "203.0.113.1"       # default: unset — advertised address; 127.0.0.1 if unset
# off | per-block | per-transaction | both. Per-transaction is strictly more
# sensitive: block-level netting hides a creation when one transaction mints
# and another destroys the same amount. "both" keeps per-block as a cross-check
# that the per-transaction deltas account for the whole block.
# supply_check = "both"             # default
# rskj_multisig_senders = "on"      # default — on | off — emulate rskj multisig peg-in senders

# Threads for RSKIP-144 parallel sublists. 1 runs every transaction in order on
# one thread. A block only splits if its header says so, so on a chain where
# RSKIP-144 is unscheduled this setting changes nothing. The cap is 2, because
# that is the most parallel sublists a block may declare.
# execution_threads = 1             # default

# Serving a frozen chain, for timed comparisons between clients. A server that
# is still following is not the same fixture twice: it grows between runs and
# the second client has more to do than the first.
#
# Turning following off is the instruction -- serve what is held, adopt
# nothing. Opening read-only is the defence behind it: if some path is missed,
# the database refuses the write rather than taking it.
# read_only = false                 # default
# sigcache = true                   # default — remember recovered transaction
#                                   # senders so the pool and the executor do
#                                   # not each recover the same signature.
#                                   # false recomputes every one.
# follow_up = true                  # default
# Behave as though the chain ends here. Everything announced agrees with it,
# total difficulty included; nothing above it is served. Requires following to
# be off.
# simulate_height = 1000000         # default: unset
# Exit once synced, reporting the elapsed time -- an unambiguous end time for
# a measurement, rather than a log line to scrape.
# exit_when_synced = false          # default
# account_slots = 16                # default — transactions one sender may queue past its nonce (rskj transaction.accountSlots)

[rpc]
# host = "127.0.0.1"                # default
# port = 4444                       # default
# admin = false                     # default — enables rsk_collectTrie, rsk_pruneBlocks, …
# disabled = false                  # default — true is the same as --no-rpc
# logs_max_blocks = 10000           # default — widest eth_getLogs span; rskj's rpc.logs.maxBlocksToQuery is 5000
# gas_estimator_binary_search = false # default — estimate gas in one pass.
#                                   # true restores the old estimator, which
#                                   # executes ~24 times narrowing an interval.
#                                   # The two differ on a CALL with a large
#                                   # fixed allowance: see
#                                   # rustock_execution::gas_estimator.
# dev = false                       # default — evm_* namespace: snapshot/revert/mine — development chains only
# ws = false                        # default — WebSocket JSON-RPC, for eth_subscribe
# ws_port = 4445                    # default
# Private keys this node may sign with, one hex key per line. Off by
# default; without it the node holds no keys and refuses eth_sign and
# eth_sendTransaction. Anyone who can reach this RPC can spend from them.
# wallet_file = "/etc/rustock/wallet.keys"   # default: unset — no wallet, no signing

[metrics]
# Prometheus metrics, served on their own listener. Absent port means no
# listener is opened at all, which is the default.
# port = 9898                       # default: unset — serving metrics is opt-in
# host = "127.0.0.1"                # default — bind elsewhere to scrape from another host

[peers]
# max_peers = 25                    # default
# max_inbound_peers = 32            # default
# max_inbound_per_ip = 4            # default
# max_inbound_per_cidr = 16         # default
# inbound_cidr_prefix = 24          # default
# bootnodes = ["127.0.0.1:30304"]   # default: unset — replaces the chain's built-in list; port is listen+1
# banned_peers = ["203.0.113.0/24"] # default: unset — refused at connection time; rskj's peer.bannedPeerIPs
# no_peer_punishment = false        # default — count scoring events but never act on them
# Never learn node ids from peers and never dial them. With `bootnodes` this
# pins the node to exactly the addresses named there, which is what makes a
# controlled two-node test trustworthy; on its own it only stops discovery.
# closed_network = false            # default

[trie]
# single | external | epoch. "single" keeps every historical version in the
# main database and grows without bound; "epoch" bounds the size by reclaiming
# state older than the retention window, which means historical state queries
# below that window stop working. That is a real trade, so it is opt-in — but
# "epoch" is what a node that is not an archive wants.
backend = "epoch"                   # light: bounds state size. This setting ALONE turns trie
                                    # collection on -- the [gc] section below does nothing with
                                    # any other backend. Historical state below the collection
                                    # window stops being queryable. Default "single".
# dir = "/var/lib/rustock/trie-epochs"# default: unset
# node = "…"                        # default: unset — diagnostic: start from this state root

# rocksdb | flatdb. Orthogonal to `backend`, which chooses retention: this
# chooses what holds the nodes. flatdb is measurably faster on reads and far
# steadier (docs/flatdb.md) and is EXPERIMENTAL — it has not run on a real
# chain, so the default stays rocksdb. The single backend cannot use it: that
# one keeps nodes in a column family of the main database, which only rocksdb
# provides. The node refuses to start if the directory on disk was written by
# the other engine, rather than opening an empty store beside the data.
# engine = "rocksdb"                # default

# Keys to size a flatdb index for; ignored by rocksdb. Zero derives it from
# the rotation threshold below: an epoch rotates at a known size, so the
# records it will ever hold are bounded and can be computed rather than
# guessed. Exceeding it costs a stop-the-world rehash; over-sizing costs
# reclaimable address space and nothing else, because the index is a file
# mapping and not committed memory. Set it only to override the derivation.
# expected_keys = 0                 # default

# Blocks executed per trie durability point while catching up. Trie nodes are
# derivable, so the store may flush less often than the node executes; the
# executed head never advances past what a crash would keep, so the only cost
# of raising this is that many blocks of re-execution after an unclean stop.
# Follow mode ignores it and makes every block durable.
# flush_every = 100                 # default
# BTC stored-block cache. Answering "which BTC block is at height H?" costs one
# trie read per block of depth whenever the RSKIP199 height index cannot answer.
# The cache holds blocks already read for consensus -- it never pre-loads and
# never records an absence -- so it changes latency and nothing else.
# ~200 bytes per entry; 0 disables.
# btc_block_cache_entries = 10000   # default

# Threads for parallel reads: the snapshot-sync client, the trie store, and the
# one-shot state verifier. Defaults to the core count, clamped to at least 1.
# read_threads = 16                 # default
# Trie garbage collection. `burial` must exceed the deepest reorg worth
# surviving: collecting against a root that is later reorganised away discards
# state the chain needs to rebuild.
[gc]
# epochs = 4                        # default
# rotate_mb = 1024                  # default
# burial = 4000                     # default
# check_secs = 60                   # default

# Block-history pruning: bodies, receipts, the transaction index, headers and
# the canonical mapping, for blocks far enough behind.
#
# Off by default, and deliberately. Turning it on is not a tuning change — it
# discards history that only a resync restores, and `eth_getTransactionReceipt`
# stops answering for a pruned height. Bridge events are KEPT: they live in
# their own index, self-contained, and are what the peg is debugged from.
# Genesis is always retained.
#
# `keep_depth` is clamped up to 8000 whatever is given — 4000 for reorg
# tolerance plus 4000 for the block-info precompiles and REMASC's maturity,
# which a re-executed block may itself reach through. The depth is measured
# from the block this node has EXECUTED to, not from the best header it holds:
# on a snapshot-synced node those differ by thousands of blocks, and measuring
# from the header would delete what execution has not reached yet.
#
# Sweeps never run until the node has settled into ordinary sync, so a
# snapshot sync's blocks are never swept while it is still fetching them.
# `rsk_pruneBlocks` (needs rpc.admin) forces one sweep with the same clamps.
[prune]
blocks = true                       # light: run sweeps. Default false -- pruning discards

# What a sweep removes. `blocks` removes everything; these do one part each.
# `headers` requires `bodies` and `receipts` -- both are keyed by block hash and
# the canonical index that finds it goes with the headers.
# bodies = false                    # default
# headers = false                   # default
# receipts = false                  # default
uncles = true                       # light: do not archive uncle headers. Saves ~10.5 GB,
                                    # at the cost of being unable to serve rsk/63 or to
                                    # re-derive this node's own cumulative difficulty.
                                    # Default false.
                                    # history that only a resync restores, so it is never on
                                    # unless an operator says so.
keep_depth = 8000                   # light: the floor, and the least the node may keep -- 4000
                                    # for reorg tolerance plus 4000 for the block-info
                                    # precompiles and REMASC maturity. Measured from the
                                    # EXECUTED head. Default 100000.
# max_batch = 50000                 # default — most blocks one sweep may remove
# every_secs = 300                  # default — seconds between sweeps
# Delete headers from the block database once the freezer holds them. Every
# lookup by hash for those blocks then depends on the freezer.
# frozen_headers = false            # default
freezer = false                     # light: the single biggest saving here, and the one most
                                    # easily missed. The freezer holds every canonical header
                                    # below head-20000 in flat files -- 9.5 GB on mainnet -- and
                                    # pruning NEVER touches it, so a pruning node with a freezer
                                    # still carries all of it. Without one, headers stay in the
                                    # block database where the sweep can remove them, and the
                                    # node keeps about keep_depth of them. The freezer is what
                                    # makes serving headers to peers cheap; this node does not
                                    # serve them. Default false (freezer on).

# What this node does with the difficulty checkpoint it ships. Two independent
# switches; bound_work is on by default, verify_hash is not:
#
#   verify_hash  bound_work   what you get
#   -----------  ----------   ------------------------------------------------
#   false        false        nothing
#   true         false        a peer must be on the checkpointed chain
#   false        true         a peer's claimed work is bounded, and this build  <- default
#                             declares no winning fork
#   true         true         both
#
# They are separate because a checkpoint *hash* states which chain is
# canonical — a governance act — while bounding work does not.
[checkpoint]
# verify_hash = false              # default — off; see the note above
# bound_work = true                # default — on; bound and sampling together

# Snapshot sync: catch up by downloading a state rather than executing into
# one. The header chain is verified to the snapshot point first — a snapshot is
# only trustworthy because the walk vouches for the checkpoint it hangs from.
[snapshot]
sync = true                         # light: download a state rather than execute nine million
                                    # blocks into one. Default false.
# server = false                    # default — serve snapshots to peers that ask
# Blocks of history to download below the checkpoint. These are the blocks the
# node holds once the sync is done. Setting this above prune.keep_depth is how
# a pruning node is given its first sweep's work.
blocks = 8500                       # light: must be ABOVE prune.keep_depth below, or the node
                                    # arrives holding less history than it has undertaken to
                                    # keep and the first sweep has nothing to do. Default 6000,
                                    # which is below the 8000 floor. The 500 difference is what
                                    # the first sweep removes.
# chunk_bytes = 100000              # default — state bytes per chunk request
# chunk_grid = 100000               # default — offset grid chunks sit on; changing it
                                   # invalidates a server's cached cells
# parallel = 8                      # default — chunk requests in flight, across all peers
# Fill the canonical index for history below the checkpoint window after a
# snapshot sync. Costs ~0.4 GB and, on a cold store, up to an hour and a half
# of low-priority background disk; resumable, and it stops at the prune floor.
# Without it this node can answer RPC about its window only, and cannot help
# anyone else sync past it.
index_history = false               # light: this index exists to answer RPC about old heights
                                    # and to serve history to peers. A pruning node has neither,
                                    # so the work is wasted. Default true.
# Establish the header chain by ascending from a block this node already holds,
# with the uncles alongside (rsk/63, RSKIP-698), instead of descending from the
# peer's offered checkpoint. Totals cumulative difficulty exactly, so the
# sampling gate and the claimed-work ceiling are not needed — the offered
# checkpoint is checked against the chain this node proved for itself. A peer at
# rsk/62 cannot serve it and the session falls back to the descending walk.
# Experimental: the descending walk is what has been run against mainnet.
# forward_headers = false           # default
# peer_rate = 8388608               # default — state bytes/s served to ONE peer
# total_rate = 33554432             # default — state bytes/s this server produces in total

[mining]
# enabled = false                   # default — serve the mnr_* namespace
# coinbase = "0x…"                  # default: unset — REQUIRED when enabled
# extra_data = ""                   # default — at most 32 bytes
# min_gas_price = 0                 # default: unset — wei to steer the block minimum toward, 1% per block (rskj miner.minGasPrice)
# submission_rate_limit_ms = 0      # default — refuse a second submission inside this window (rskj workSubmissionRateLimitInMills)
# update_work_on_new_transaction = false  # default — rebuild when arrivals pay a tenth of the candidate's fees (rskj updateWorkOnNewTransaction)
# timed = "10s"                     # default: unset — mine on rskj's regtest clock (timedMine): exponential delays with this median
# flush_every = 10                  # default — mined blocks between trie flushes (rskj blockchain.flushNumberOfBlocks)
# refresh_secs = 60                 # default
# timed = "10s"                     # default: unset — mine on rskj's regtest clock (timedMine): exponential delays with this median
# flush_every = 10                  # default — mined blocks between trie flushes (rskj blockchain.flushNumberOfBlocks)

# Per-account virtual gas quota (rskj TxQuotaChecker). An account accumulates
# quota while idle and spends it when broadcasting, so one that floods the
# mempool is refused here and not relayed onward. Ordinary use never reaches it.
[account_tx_rate_limit]
# enabled = true                    # default
# cleaner_period = 30               # default — minutes; 0 or negative disables the sweep
# max_accounts = 400000             # default
# quota_multiplier = 2000           # default — seconds of idleness an account may bank
# gas_per_second_percent = 0.9      # default — of the block gas limit, accrued per second

[log]
# level = "info"                    # default
# to_stdout = false                 # default — true when run under systemd (journald)
# Timezone for log timestamps: "utc" (default), "local", or a fixed UTC
# offset. Timestamps stay RFC 3339, so the offset is part of every line:
# UTC prints ...T21:13:45.9+00:00, "-03:00" prints ...T18:13:45.9-03:00.
# "local" is read once at start-up and then held, so it does not follow a
# daylight-saving change; a fixed offset says so plainly, and is exactly
# right for zones without DST (Argentina has had none since 2009).
# timezone = "utc"                  # default — or "local", or a fixed offset like "-03:00"
[alerts]
# alerts_config = "/etc/rustock/alerts.toml"# default: unset
# Regtest: a chain that has to match one an rskj node runs, for example to
# import blocks rskj mined (--import-blocks). Refused on mainnet and testnet
# unless allow_overrides says this is a copy of the chain (genesis excepted).
[chain]
# genesis = "genesis.json"          # default: unset — an rskj genesis JSON file, instead of rustock's regtest genesis
# skip_pow_validation = false       # default — rskj's miner.server.skipPowValidation
# consensus_rules = { rskip97 = 0 } # default: unset — rskj's blockchain.config.consensusRules; -1 disables
# min_gas_limit = 3000000           # default: unset (regtest: 1) — rskj's regtest minimum
# max_gas_limit = 1000000000        # default: unset (regtest: 10000000) — rskj has no upper bound
# hardforks = { reed810 = 9002504 }  # default: unset — rskj's blockchain.config.hardforkActivationHeights; -1 takes an upgrade off
# allow_overrides = false            # default — take these on a copy of mainnet or testnet too (genesis excepted)