atomic-swap/docs/bootnode.md

Bootnode

The swap daemon uses a p2p network to discover offer-makers to do a swap with, and also the run the actual swap protocol. A node must know addresses of nodes already in the network to join the network. These nodes are often publicly posted and referred to as bootnodes. Bootnodes act as an entry-point into the p2p network.

This repo comes with a bootnode program that runs only the p2p components of a swap node, and thus can be used as a lightweight bootnode.

Requirements

• see build instructions for installation requirements.

Build and run

To build and run the bootnode binary:

make build-all
./bin/bootnode --env ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT is one of mainnet, stagenet, or dev.

To get the p2p addresses of the bootnode:

./bin/swapcli addresses

You can then distribute these addresses for other swap nodes to connect to.