Validator Quickstart

Get started with the Raiku validator client

Our raiku-agave client is built on top of jito-agave.

If you're already running Jito, switching to Raiku means adding just a few flags to your existing validator startup. Jito Classic and Raiku coexist. This means no changes to your pre-existing Jito configuration are required.

Raiku is not compatible with Jito BAM.

The Raiku validator is available at raiku-agave to our pilot program partners and will be open-sourced at the end of the pilot program.

The Raiku client shares the same hardware requirements as the Agave validator client, which can be found here.

Already running jito-agave?

Follow the install process and add the following flags to your existing validator startup command:

--raiku-engine-url https://engine.testnet.raiku.sh:443 \
--raiku-merkle-root-upload-authority 7maV3ghmAJZGmzCBa8xNWVkrz4S1WHiCXzAZhPufBY8e \
--raiku-commission-bps 500

That's it. Your existing Jito flags stay unchanged.

Building from Source

1. Install rustc, cargo & rustfmt

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env
rustup component add rustfmt

When building the master branch, make sure you are using the latest stable Rust version:

rustup update

When building a specific release branch, check the Rust version in ci/rust-version.sh and install it if needed:

rustup install VERSION

Note: If this is not the latest Rust version on your machine, cargo commands may require an override in order to use the correct version.

On Linux systems you may need to install libssl-dev, pkg-config, zlib1g-dev, protobuf etc.

On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libudev-dev pkg-config zlib1g-dev llvm clang cmake make libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

On Fedora

sudo dnf install openssl-devel systemd-devel pkg-config zlib-devel llvm clang cmake make protobuf-devel protobuf-compiler perl-core

2. Download the Source Code

export CARGO_NET_GIT_FETCH_WITH_CLI=true
git clone https://github.com/raiku-protocol/raiku-agave.git
cd raiku-agave
git submodule update --init --recursive

3. Build the Client

cargo build --release