Archive Node

An archive node syncs the full chain and retains all commerce receipts indefinitely. It does not participate in consensus.

Start an archive node

omne-node start \
  --data-dir ~/.omne/archive \
  --network devnet \
  --bind 0.0.0.0:9945 \
  --p2p-port 30304 \
  --storage rocksdb \
  --receipt-archive true \
  --bootstrap-peers "/ip4/<GENESIS_IP>/tcp/30303/p2p/<GENESIS_PEER_ID>"

Key differences from a validator

Aspect	Validator	Archive node
Command	`omne-node validator start`	`omne-node start`
Consensus	✅ Produces blocks	❌ Syncs only
`--receipt-archive`	Typically `false`	`true`
Disk usage	Bounded (pruning)	Unbounded (full history)

Limited receipt retention

If you don’t need full history but want more than the default pruning window:

omne-node start \
  --data-dir ~/.omne/data \
  --receipt-archive false \
  --receipt-retention-blocks 100000 \
  --bootstrap-peers "..."

Use cases

Block explorers — need full transaction history for search and display
Analytics — aggregate historical data for dashboards and reports
Auditing — complete receipt trail for compliance and verification
API services — serve historical queries that validators have pruned

Compute Node Storage Node