BNB Chain snapshots available

[miohtama]

Hi all,

We have created a blockchain data snapshot for BNB Chain for Erigon full nodes and detailed this process in a lengthy blog post. The current snapshot is for Feb 2023. The snapshot is with full transaction history (receipts, txs).

The BNB Chain snapshots are now publicly available to download from the Storj bucket.

In the post, you can find

• What is BNB Chain
• What is Erigon (one of EVM-compatible node applications)
• What is Storj and its decentralised storage
• What is a chain snapshot, and why are they important
• Compressing ~4 TB data to 1.2 TB using Zstd, and notes and ideas of the compression ratio of blockchain data, Zstd, ZFS
• How Storj is optimal (cost, efficiency) for distributing these kinds of files e.g. over Amazon S3
• Instructions on how to set up your own Erigon and use the snapshot
• Instructions and scripts on how to set up your snapshots stored on Storj

Happy to hear any feedback. Also, any tips on optimising BNB Chain sync speed and BNB Chain performance on Erigon are welcome.

I would also like to thank Alex and the other forum members who helped us out to make this happen.