Striatum Stable

Official Golang execution layer implementation of the Engram protocol.

Automated builds are available for stable releases and the unstable master branch. Binary archives are published at https://docs.stryatum.com/.

Building the source

Building striatum 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 striatum

or, to build the full suite of utilities:

make all

Executables

The Striatum project comes with several wrappers/executables found in the cmd directory.

Command

Description

striatum

Our main Engram CLI client. It is the entry point into the Engram network (main-, test- or private net), capable of running as a full node (default), archive node (retaining all historical state) or a light node (retrieving data live). It can be used by other processes as a gateway into the Engram network via JSON RPC endpoints exposed on top of HTTP, WebSocket and/or IPC transports. striatum --help and the CLI page for command line options.

Running Striatum

Going through all the possible command line flags is out of scope here, but we've enumerated a few common parameter combos to get you up to speed quickly on how you can run your own striatum instance.

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

Full node on the main Engram network

By far the most common scenario is people wanting to simply interact with the Engram network: create accounts; transfer funds; deploy and interact with contracts. For this particular use case, the user doesn't care about years-old historical data, so we can sync quickly to the current state of the network. To do so:

$ striatum console

This command will:

• Start striatum in snap sync mode (default, can be changed with the --syncmode flag), causing it to download more data in exchange for avoiding processing the entire history of the Ethereum network, which is very CPU intensive.
• Start the built-in interactive JavaScript console, (via the trailing console subcommand) through which you can interact using web3 methods (note: the web3 version bundled within striatum is very old, and not up to date with official docs), as well as striatum's own management APIs. This tool is optional and if you leave it out you can always attach it to an already running striatum instance with striatum attach.

A Full node on the Tokio test network

Transitioning towards developers, if you'd like to play around with creating Ethereum contracts, you almost certainly would like to do that without any real money involved until you get the hang of the entire system. In other words, instead of attaching to the main network, you want to join the test network with your node, which is fully equivalent to the main network, but with play-Ether only.

$ striatum --engram console

The console subcommand has the same meaning as above and is equally useful on the testnet too.

Specifying the --engram flag, however, will reconfigure your striatum instance a bit:

• Instead of connecting to the main Engram network, the client will connect to the Görli test network, which uses different P2P bootnodes, different network IDs and genesis states.
• Instead of using the default data directory (~/.striatum on Linux for example), striatum will nest itself one level deeper into a tokio subfolder (~/.striatum/goerli on Linux). Note, on OSX and Linux this also means that attaching to a running testnet node requires the use of a custom endpoint since striatum attach will try to attach to a production node endpoint by default, e.g., striatum attach <datadir>/tokio/geth.ipc. Windows users are not affected by this.

Note: Although some internal protective measures prevent transactions from crossing over between the main network and test network, you should always use separate accounts for play and real money. Unless you manually move accounts, striatum will by default correctly separate the two networks and will not make any accounts available between them.

Programmatically interfacing striatum nodes

As a developer, sooner rather than later you'll want to start interacting with striatum and the Ethereum network via your own programs and not manually through the console. To aid this, striatum has built-in support for a JSON-RPC based APIs. These can be exposed via HTTP, WebSockets and IPC (UNIX sockets on UNIX based platforms, and named pipes on Windows).

The IPC interface is enabled by default and exposes all the APIs supported by striatum, whereas the HTTP and WS interfaces need to manually be enabled and only expose a subset of APIs due to security reasons. These can be turned on/off and configured as you'd expect.

HTTP based JSON-RPC API options:

• --http Enable the HTTP-RPC server
• --http.addr HTTP-RPC server listening interface (default: localhost)
• --http.port HTTP-RPC server listening port (default: 8545)
• --http.api API's offered over the HTTP-RPC interface (default: eth,net,web3)
• --http.corsdomain Comma separated list of domains from which to accept cross origin requests (browser enforced)
• --ws Enable the WS-RPC server
• --ws.addr WS-RPC server listening interface (default: localhost)
• --ws.port WS-RPC server listening port (default: 8546)
• --ws.api API's offered over the WS-RPC interface (default: eth,net,web3)
• --ws.origins Origins from which to accept WebSocket requests
• --ipcdisable Disable the IPC-RPC server
• --ipcapi API's offered over the IPC-RPC interface (default: admin,debug,eth,miner,net,personal,txpool,web3)
• --ipcpath Filename for IPC socket/pipe within the datadir (explicit paths escape it)

You'll need to use your own programming environments' capabilities (libraries, tools, etc) to connect via HTTP, WS or IPC to a striatum node configured with the above flags and you'll need to speak JSON-RPC on all transports. You can reuse the same connection for multiple requests!

Note: Please understand the security implications of opening up an HTTP/WS based transport before doing so! Hackers on the internet are actively trying to subvert Ethereum nodes with exposed APIs! Further, all browser tabs can access locally running web servers, so malicious web pages could try to subvert locally available APIs!

License

The Striatum library (i.e. all code outside of the cmd directory) is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, also included in our repository in the COPYING.LESSER file.

The Striatum binaries (i.e. all code inside of the cmd directory) are licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0, also included in our repository in the COPYING file.