Download the latest Mainnet chaindata

1. Download the latest chaindata snapshot from the Mainnet snapshot archive.

0) Before proceeding, please check if your disk space is enough to store and extract the Mainnet chaindata.

** You can refer to the chaindata size via Mainnet snapshot archive, which lists every published snapshot with its compressed size, its extracted size and its checksum.

1) Download the snapshot

** Please note that this step will take a lot of time to download: the snapshot is over 2.2 TB compressed and expands to about 2.8 TB, so we recommend using a temporary disk for downloading. If you want to reduce the time, please refer the next step.
** The latest chaindata name can be different with this example due to the date information.

$ URL=`curl -s https://snapshots.node.kaia.io/mainnet/pruning-chaindata/latest.txt`
$ echo $URL
https://kaia-chaindata-r2-logging.kaia-foundation.workers.dev/mainnet/pruning/kaia-mainnet-pruning-chaindata-20260918010012.tar.zst
$ wget $URL

2) Optional - If you want to save the time for downloading, you can consider using axel command.

**Axel tries to accelerate the download process by using multiple connections per file.

(Amazon Linux 2) $ sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel
(CentOS) $ sudo yum install epel-release -y
$ sudo yum install axel -y
$ URL=`curl -s https://snapshots.node.kaia.io/mainnet/pruning-chaindata/latest.txt`
$ echo $URL
https://kaia-chaindata-r2-logging.kaia-foundation.workers.dev/mainnet/pruning/kaia-mainnet-pruning-chaindata-20260918010012.tar.zst
$ axel -n8 $URL

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