Celestia access
resources.
Public RPC and API endpoints, live mainnet and testnet snapshots, and the server-security guide we follow ourselves — shared with the Celestia community.
RPC & APIQuery the chain
Query the chain
directly.
Public endpoints for explorers, wallets and tooling — broadcast transactions, query state and inspect blocks on mainnet or mocha-5.
Mainnet
RPC & API
Testnet · mocha-5
RPC & API
DataSnapshots,
Snapshots,
rebuilt every 6 hours.
Pruned state from our own live nodes. Full restore commands included — both networks require app-db-backend = pebbledb.
Live
Celestia Mainnet
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Requires db-backend = pebbledb — check
app-db-backend in app.toml before restoring.sudo systemctl stop celestia-appd
cp $HOME/.celestia-app/data/priv_validator_state.json \
$HOME/.celestia-app/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.celestia-app/data
curl -L https://snapshots.chaindigital.tech/celestia/mainnet/latest.tar.zst \
| tar --zstd -xf - -C $HOME/.celestia-app/
mv $HOME/.celestia-app/priv_validator_state.json.backup \
$HOME/.celestia-app/data/priv_validator_state.json
# make sure app.toml has: app-db-backend = "pebbledb"
sed -i 's/^app-db-backend = .*/app-db-backend = "pebbledb"/' \
$HOME/.celestia-app/config/app.toml
sudo systemctl restart celestia-appd && \
sudo journalctl -u celestia-appd -f
Live
Celestia mocha-5
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Requires db-backend = pebbledb — check
app-db-backend in app.toml before restoring.sudo systemctl stop celestia-appd
cp $HOME/.celestia-app/data/priv_validator_state.json \
$HOME/.celestia-app/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.celestia-app/data
curl -L https://snapshots.chaindigital.tech/celestia/mocha-5/latest.tar.zst \
| tar --zstd -xf - -C $HOME/.celestia-app/
mv $HOME/.celestia-app/priv_validator_state.json.backup \
$HOME/.celestia-app/data/priv_validator_state.json
# make sure app.toml has: app-db-backend = "pebbledb"
sed -i 's/^app-db-backend = .*/app-db-backend = "pebbledb"/' \
$HOME/.celestia-app/config/app.toml
sudo systemctl restart celestia-appd && \
sudo journalctl -u celestia-appd -fSnapshots are served from snapshots.chaindigital.tech, rebuilt every 6 hours from our own live nodes.
