Prerequisites
- Go 1.21 or newer
- Git, make, a C toolchain
- Roughly 20 GB of free disk for a testnet full node
Build
The binary lands in build/bin/krnxd.
Initialize
A Kronex node is initialized from a genesis file, not from a network ID. The
repository ships the testnet genesis and a matching node config:
--networkid overrides only the p2p network identifier. It does not select a
genesis. Two nodes with the same --networkid and different genesis files
will find each other and then refuse to sync.
Run
To expose RPC, add the HTTP flags and include krnx in the API list:
Bind to 127.0.0.1 unless the node sits behind a proxy you control. The krnx
namespace contains submit methods, and krnxadmin should never be reachable
from outside the host.
Verify
Then check that merged mining is arriving:
A null result means the head block carries no AuxPoW extension yet.
Private network
For an isolated network, write your own genesis and give every node the same
one:
Pick a network ID that is not 42068 or 42069 so a misconfigured node cannot
half-join a real network.
