thinkafcod / shisui

Ethereum Portal Network Client written in Go

Shisui

Shisui is an Ethereum portal client written in Go language based on go-ethereum. The name is inspired by Uchiha Shisui from the anime Naruto, who is renowned as "Shisui of the Body Flicker".

Note: Shisui is still under heavy development and is not yet ready for production use.

Building the source

For prerequisites and detailed build instructions please read the Installation Instructions.

Building shisui requires both a Go (version 1.19 or later) and a C compiler. You can install them using your favourite package manager. Once the dependencies are installed, run

make shisui

Also, you can build the docker image by running

make shisui-image

Running shisui

After building shisui, you can start the client by running

./build/bin/shisui

Alternatively, you can run the docker image by running

docker run -d -p 8545:8545 -p 9009:9009/udp ghcr.io/optimism-java/shisui:latest

supported options

• --rpc.addr HTTP-RPC server listening addr
• --rpc.port HTTP-RPC server listening port(default: 8545)
• --data.dir data dir of where the data file located(default: ./)
• --data.capacity the capacity of the data stored, the unit is MB(default: 10GB)
• --nat p2p address(default none)
  • none, find local address
  • any uses the first auto-detected mechanism
  • extip:77.12.33.4 will assume the local machine is reachable on the given IP
  • upnp uses the Universal Plug and Play protocol
  • pmp uses NAT-PMP with an auto-detected gateway address
  • pmp:192.168.0.1 uses NAT-PMP with the given gateway address
• --udp.addr protocol UDP server listening port(default: 9009)
• --loglevel loglevel of portal network, 1 to 5, from error to trace(default: 1)
• --private.key private key of p2p node, hex format without 0x prifix
• --bootnodes bootnode of p2p network with ENR format, use none to config empty bootnodes
• --networks portal sub networks: history, beacon, state

all the options above can be set with envs.

the env is prefixed with SHISUI and change the . to _.

eg --rpc.add can be replaced with env SHISUI_RPC_ADDR

Hardware Requirements

Minimum:

• CPU with 2+ cores
• 4GB RAM
• 1TB free storage space to sync the Mainnet
• 8 MBit/sec download Internet service

Recommended:

• Fast CPU with 4+ cores
• 16GB+ RAM
• High-performance SSD with at least 1TB of free space
• 25+ MBit/sec download Internet service