How to Set Up a WAX Atomic API Node

The AtomicAssets NFT standard developed by Pink.gg has become synonymous with the WAX Protocol Network and the widely utilised WAX Atomic Hub.

The AtomicAssets NFT standard stands apart from it’s alternatives by not requiring any RAM from users and offering native two sided trade offers as well as backing NFTs with tokens. You can read more about the standard at https://atomicassets.io/.

Of course no awesome NFT framework would be complete without the ability for users and developers to access real-time data in a simple and effective way through a scalable API. This is where Pink.gg developed the eosio-contract-api also known as the Atomic API.

This guide will walk through the process of building and running a WAX Atomic API Node enabling you as a Guild or Developer to offer a very useful API service for the ecosystem… or maybe just for you.

How to Set Up a WAX Atomic API Node

Public Atomic API nodes are extremely utilised on the WAX Mainnet and are used by users and DApps to query state and history of atomicassets and the atomicmarket.

A solid mainnet node may be run in docker if you wish to containerise the instance or via PM2 if you prefer to run it at the system level.

This guide goes through the process of building the application dependencies and running the node with PM2.

Mainnet Requirements

Hardware

8 Core CPU / 5Ghz+ recommended
1TB+ Disk / Enterprise Grade SSD or NVMe

Currently (November 2022) a complete node uses approximately 859GB of Disk space with the postgres DB currently 849GB.

64GB+ RAM

Operating System

Ubuntu 20.04 (Recommended)

SHIP Node

Access to an up to date v2.0.12–13 or v3.1.x WAX State-History node
SHIP node on the same LAN (Highly Recommended)

Network

Modern Internet Broadband / Fibre Connection (100Mb/s synchronous and above)
1Gb/s+ LAN

Build the Software

At time of writing the current version of the eosio-contract-api is v1.3.17

Application Dependencies (Some our our recommendations)

NodeJS >= 16.0
PM2
PostgreSQL >= 14.0
Redis >= 5.0
Yarn

Application Installation and Configuration Process

NodeJS

> curl -fsSL [https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x](https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x) | sudo -E bash -> sudo apt install -y nodejs

#Check Version#  
> node -v

PM2

> sudo npm install pm2 -g

#Check Version#  
> pm2 -v

Postgres

Install Postgres as below:

> sudo apt-get install wget ca-certificates

> wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -

> sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'

> sudo apt update

> sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib

#Check Version#  
> apt show postgresql

After installation a new database needs to be created and permissions assigned if necessary, this example will use the default postgres user.

> sudo su - postgres

> psql

#Assign a password to the postgres account#  
postgres=# \password  
Enter new password:  
Enter it again:

#Create the database#  
postgres=# \l (lists databases)
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE "api-wax-mainnet-atomic-1";
postgres=# \l+ (lists databases - including size)
postgres=# \q (quit)

> exit

Redis

> curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg

> echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.redis.io/deb $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/redis.list

> sudo apt update

> sudo apt install redis

#Check Version#  
> redis-server --version

#If there is a unmask error then#  
> sudo systemctl unmask redis-server.service

Yarn

> sudo npm install --global yarn

#Check Version#  
> yarn --version

Atomic API

The latest building instructions can always be found at the Pink.gg Github

Installation

> git clone https://github.com/pinknetworkx/eosio-contract-api.git

> cd eosio-contract-api

> yarn install

Configuration

There are three configuration files to be adjusted for your specific deployment

connections.config.json  
server.config.json  
readers.config.json

Below are basic configurations for this example please tailor to your own deployment:

connections.config.json

> cd  ~/eosio-contract-api/config

> cp example-connections.config.json connections.config.json

> nano connections.config.json
{
  "postgres": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": 5432,
    "user": "postgres",
    "password": "YOUR POSGRESS PASSWORD",
    "database": "api-wax-mainnet-atomic-1"
  },
  "redis": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": 6379
  },
  "chain": {
    "name": "wax-mainnet",
    "chain_id": "1064487b3cd1a897ce03ae5b6a865651747e2e152090f99c1d19d44e01aea5a4",
    "http": "http://10.0.0.65:8888",
    "ship": "ws://10.0.0.65:8080"
  }
}

server.config.json

> cd  ~/eosio-contract-api/config

> cp example-server.config.json server.config.json

> nano server.config.json
{
  "provider_name": "EOSphere Guild",
  "provider_url": "https://eosphere.io",
"server_addr": "0.0.0.0",
  "server_name": "wax-atomic-api.eosphere.io",
  "server_port": 9000,
"cache_life": 5,
  "trust_proxy": true,
"rate_limit": {
    "interval": 60,
    "requests": 240,
    "bill_execution_time": true
  },
"ip_whitelist": [],
  "slow_query_threshold": 7500,
"max_query_time_ms": 10000,
  "max_db_connections": 50,
"namespaces": [
    {
      "name": "atomicassets",
      "path": "/atomicassets",
      "args": {
        "atomicassets_account": "atomicassets",
        "connected_reader": "atomic-1",
        "socket_features": {
          "asset_update": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "atomicmarket",
      "path": "/atomicmarket",
      "args": {
        "atomicmarket_account": "atomicmarket",
        "connected_reader": "atomic-1",
        "socket_features": {
          "asset_update": false
        },
       "api_features": {
          "disable_v1_sales": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "atomictools",
      "path": "/atomictools",
      "args": {
        "atomictools_account": "atomictoolsx",
        "atomicassets_account": "atomicassets",
        "connected_reader": "atomic-1"
      }
    }
  ]
}

readers.config.json

Advice from the Pink team was that indexing only needs to start from block 64000000

> cd  ~/eosio-contract-api/config

> cp example-readers.config.json readers.config.json

> nano readers.config.json
[
  {
    "name": "atomic-1",
"server_addr": "0.0.0.0",
    "server_port": 9001,
"start_block": 64000000,
    "stop_block": 0,
    "irreversible_only": false,
"ship_prefetch_blocks": 50,
    "ship_min_block_confirmation": 30,
    "ship_ds_queue_size": 20,
"db_group_blocks": 10,
"ds_ship_threads": 4,
"modules": [],
"contracts": [
      {
        "handler": "atomicassets",
        "args": {
          "atomicassets_account": "atomicassets",
          "store_transfers": true,
          "store_logs": true
        }
      },
      {
        "handler": "delphioracle",
        "args": {
          "delphioracle_account": "delphioracle"
        }
      },
      {
        "handler": "atomicmarket",
        "args": {
          "atomicmarket_account": "atomicmarket",
          "store_logs": true
        }
      },
      {
        "handler": "atomictools",
        "args": {
          "atomictools_account": "atomictoolsx",
          "store_logs": true
        }
      }
    ]
  }
]

Start/Stop the Atomic API Service

In this example the Atomic API Service will start indexing from block 64000000 and will build a fresh postgres database to the current headblock.

This will take sometime and it is advisable to ensure indexing has caught up before you start offering the API publicly.

> cd ~/eosio-contract-api

#Start Postgres Indexing Filler#  
> pm2 start ecosystems.config.json --only eosio-contract-api-filler

#Start the API Server#  
> pm2 start ecosystems.config.json --only eosio-contract-api-server

#Monitor Filler and Server#  
> pm2 log

NB: Stopping the filler service can occasionally be problematic where restarting too soon can cause two instances of the filler to run causing a DB corruption. To get around this ensure that the filler has in fact stopped indexing to postgres by monitoring the active services with top or htop before you restart.

#Stop Postgres Indexing Filler#  
> pm2 stop eosio-contract-api-filler

#Stop the API Server#  
> pm2 stop eosio-contract-api-server

#Stop All#  
> pm2 stop all

#Check using top or htop#

Your node will be accessible via http port 9000 which when offering the service publicly will be best served from behind a SSL offloading loadbalancer such as HAProxy or nginx.

Query your node’s status as below:

> curl http://x.x.x.x:9000/health
> curl http://x.x.x.x:9000/atomicassets/v1/config
> curl http://x.x.x.x:9000/atomicmarket/v1/config
> curl https://x.x.x.x:9000/atomictools/v1/config

These WAX Developer Technical Guides are created using source material from the EOSphere WAX Technical How To Series

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How to Set Up a WAX Atomic API Node

Mainnet Requirements

Build the Software

Application Installation and Configuration Process​

Atomic API​

Start/Stop the Atomic API Service​

Application Installation and Configuration Process

Atomic API

Start/Stop the Atomic API Service