Ethscriptions Geth Snapshot

A public geth/chaindata snapshot for Ethscriptions mainnet — hash state, archive mode. Served from Cloudflare R2, free to download, resumable.

Primary download

geth-snapshot.tar.zst671 GiB

Resume and parallel range requests are supported. Do not use a browser for this file.

Requires ~1.4 TiB free disk space and the Ethscriptions Geth fork — an upstream Geth release will not work.

# recommended — 16 parallel connections, resumes automatically
aria2c -x16 -s16 -c https://snapshots.ethscriptions.com/geth-snapshot.tar.zst

# or, single stream with resume
curl -C - -O https://snapshots.ethscriptions.com/geth-snapshot.tar.zst

How to use this snapshot

Restore this snapshot to query historical Ethscriptions state using the matching Geth client. Follow the restore instructions to download, verify, and start the database. To continue syncing, you also need the Ethscriptions derivation node.

Restore this snapshot Download, verify, extract, and start the database. Start here.
Ethscriptions Geth source The execution client that wrote this database.
Derivation node setup Required to advance the chain after restoration.

All files

File	Size	Modified (UTC)
geth-snapshot.tar.zst	671.1 GiB	2026-09-14
geth-snapshot.tar.zst.sha256	88 B	2026-09-14
manifest.json	2.98 KB	2026-09-14
RESTORE.md	2.94 KB	2026-09-14
ethscriptions-mainnet.json	14.48 MB	2026-09-14

Fetch the small files alongside the archive:

for f in geth-snapshot.tar.zst.sha256 manifest.json ethscriptions-mainnet.json RESTORE.md; do
  curl -O https://snapshots.ethscriptions.com/$f
done

Snapshot details

Head height: 8534423
Head hash: 0x41df71bf4b4d775f43968820676e2533007f5cf41e0862c21afdbb06a0c30a89
State root: 0xbf41585754d03df7704b3c908ca8b5442b9f3e3d25bb1fdac2efc5e7d67af4aa
Archive SHA-256: 7710632eca4fe479edb651f72183f0b4568a1d378e6e175a9fa3186f09275fd0
Snapshot captured: 2026-09-11 23:09:04 UTC
Archive packaged: 2026-09-12 01:38:58 UTC
Compressed: 720,592,314,806 bytes (671.1 GiB)
Uncompressed: 772,670,299,193 bytes (719.6 GiB)
Contents: geth/chaindata, including ancient data
Geth image: ghcr.io/ethscriptions-protocol/ethscriptions-geth@sha256:cf12908075c9ef49b4d21820a3fa0e2d878e4b59d92a0249e65bd8034403b80c

The database was recovered from a live disk snapshot, so its head can precede the production head at capture time. manifest.json records the actual recovered head.

Restore

Make sure you have roughly 1.4 TiB free — the archive plus the extracted database.

Verify the checksum before extracting.

sha256sum -c geth-snapshot.tar.zst.sha256

Extract into a new, empty directory.
```
mkdir restored-geth
tar --zstd -xf geth-snapshot.tar.zst -C restored-geth
```
This produces restored-geth/geth/chaindata. Do not run geth init on it.
Run it with the pinned Ethscriptions Geth fork — an upstream Geth release is not a substitute. Full instructions, including an isolated Docker verification, are in RESTORE.md.

What this is not

This archive contains chaindata only. It does not include the importer database, credentials, JWT secret, or node identity, and it is not a complete rollup node deployment. Advancing the chain requires a compatible Ethscriptions importer with its own configuration and state. Generate your own JWT secret and node identity for any networked deployment, and keep RPC and Engine API access restricted.