Blockchain snapshots
Free Snapshots are deprecated
The free nearcore data snapshots have been deprecated.
Infrastruture committee and Near One suggest using Epoch Sync x decentralized state sync. Please visit NEAR Nodes for more info.
Download blockchain state in order to set up a validator node or RPC. See nearcore for more information on node requirements and usage.
Getting rclone
These large downloads utilize rclone, which can be installed by running:
sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
Validators can find more details on set-up by visiting NEAR Nodes.
These guides utilize logic from this FastNEAR repository.