HOW TO RUN AVALANCHE NODE ON WINDOWS 10

After reasing this article everybody will be able to run Avalanche on his/her Windows 10 easily…

May be not professional but it is an easy howto guide

First lets download latest release from Ava Labs github page. At this example it is 1.6.0 version you can try latest version at the future too

https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/releases/download/v1.6.0/avalanchego-win-v1.6.0-experimental.zip

Make a directory called AVAX wherever you want

In my example it is:

C:\Users\tr\avax

and unzip avalanchego-win-v1.6.0-experimental.zip to that directory

At first Run your powershell from windows start menu and programs and navigate your avax directory

At command prompt:

./avalanchego

write and press enter, we have fired up avalanche node

It starts bootstrapping (i prefer synching nicer word for me but at avalanche it is bootstrapping) and it takes approximately 50 minutes at the time of this writing. After it finishes bootstrapping lets start with curl commands

First Lets get our node-id after that we will create a user and an X address

curl -method POST -URI “127.0.0.1:9650/ext/info” -ContentType ‘application/json’ -Body ‘{“jsonrpc”:”2.0",”id” :1,”method” :”info.getNodeID”}’ -UseBasicParsing

Output:

To create a user:

curl -method POST -URI “127.0.0.1:9650/ext/keystore” -ContentType ‘application/json’ -Body ‘{“jsonrpc”:”2.0",”id” :1,”method” :”keystore.createUser”, “params” :{ “username”:”mahof” , “password”:”password”} }’ -UseBasicParsing

Do not write “password” use letters and numbers or it will warn you “password is too weak”

Output:

Backup your user:

curl -method POST -URI "127.0.0.1:9650/ext/keystore" -ContentType 'application/json' -Body '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id"     :1,"method" :"keystore.exportUser", "params" :{ "username":"mahof" , "password":"password"} }' -UseBasicParsing

Output:

To create X address

curl -method POST -URI “127.0.0.1:9650/ext/bc/X” -ContentType ‘application/json’ -Body ‘{“jsonrpc”:”2.0",”id” :1,”method” :”avm.createAddress”, “params” :{ “username”:”mahof” , “password”:”password”} }’ -UseBasicParsing

Output:

To backup X address

curl -method POST -URI “127.0.0.1:9650/ext/bc/X” -ContentType ‘application/json’ -Body ‘{“jsonrpc”:”2.0",”id” :1,”method” :”avm.exportKey”, “params” :{ “username”:”mahof” , “password”:”password”, “address”: “X-avax1ms2r3u06gwlfluxxwvlnfn6c5dsgpgj2pvverr”} }’ -UseBasicParsing

Output:

Lets ask how the node is with health check api

C:\users\tr\avax> curl -method POST -URI “127.0.0.1:9650/ext/health “ -ContentType ‘application/json’ -Body ‘{“jsonrpc”:”2.0",”id” :1,”method” :”health.getLiveness”}’ -UseBasicParsing

Output:

We can run Avalanche node like this example . Validator node owners can run a Windows node and learn more about curl commands or try to restore their node id s to the windows node and see if their backups are valid and working.

Or you can run the node as below parameters

./avalanchego -network-id=fuji

and get more information and learnabout how AVALANCHE works

You can get test avax from http://faucet.avax.network and make simple improvements and test the AVALANCHE network