Bywise Fullnode

Bywise is an enterprise-grade permissioned Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Blockchain for developing solutions and applications. Its modular and versatile design suits a wide range of industry use cases. It offers a unique approach to consensus that enables performance at scale while preserving privacy.

Setup

System Requirements

This system spec has been tested by many users and validators and found to be comfortable:

• Quad Core or larger AMD x64, Intel x64 and ARM CPUs like the Apple M1.
• 16GB RAM
• 200GB NVMe Storage
• 10MBPS bidirectional internet connection

You can run Bywise on lower-spec hardware for each component, but you may find that it is not highly performant or prone to crashing.

Installation

1. Install NodeJS v20 or newer, Install project dependencies:

npm install
npm run build

2. Create your wallet:

node dist/index.js -new-wallet

2. Make a copy of .env.examples and rename the copy to .env:

cp .env.example .env

3. Update the environment variables in .env. You will need the following:

PORT=8080
NODES="http://localhost:8081,http://localhost:8082,http://localhost:8083"
HOST="http://localhost:8080"
SEED="_____________YOUR_SEED______________"
TOKEN="__________RANDOM_STRING____________"

Running

1. Create your local chain:

node dist/index.js -new-chain local

2. Run node:

node dist/index.js -log -chain local.json -start