Gaia

Gaia is the first implementation of the Cosmos Hub, built using the Cosmos SDK. Gaia and other Cosmos Hubs allow fully sovereign blockchains to interact with one another using a protocol called IBC that enables Inter-Blockchain Communication.

Mainnet Full Node Quick Start

This assumes that you're running Linux or MacOS and have installed Go 1.14+. This guide helps you:

• build and install Gaia
• allow you to name your node
• add seeds to your config file
• download genesis state
• start your node
• use gaiacli to check the status of your node.

Build, Install, and Name your Node

# Clone Gaia from the latest release found here: https://github.com/cosmos/gaia/releases
git clone -b <latest_release> https://github.com/cosmos/gaia
# Enter the folder Gaia was cloned into
cd gaia
# Compile and install Gaia
make install
# Initialize Gaiad in ~/.gaiad and name your node
gaiad init yournodenamehere

Add Seeds

# Edit config.toml
nano ~/.gaiad/config/config.toml

Scroll down to seeds in config.toml, and add some of these seeds as a comma-separated list:

[email protected]:26656
[email protected]:26656
[email protected]:26656
[email protected]:26656
[email protected]:26656
[email protected]:26656
[email protected]:26656
[email protected]:26656
[email protected]:26656
[email protected]:26656

Download Genesis, Start your Node, Check your Node Status

# Download genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.gaiad/config/genesis.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cosmos/launch/master/genesis.json
# Start Gaiad
gaiad start
# Check your node's status with gaiacli
gaiacli status

Welcome to the Cosmos!

Talk to us!

We have active, helpful communities on Twitter, Discord, and Telegram.

• Discord
• Twitter
• Telegram

Archives

With each version of the Cosmos Hub, the chain is restarted from a new Genesis state. We are currently on cosmoshub-3. Archives of the state of cosmoshub-1 and cosmoshub-2 are available here.

Disambiguation

Gaia is not related to the React-Cosmos project (yet). Many thanks to Evan Coury and Ovidiu (@skidding) for this Github organization name. Per our agreement, this disambiguation notice will stay here.