Binance Chain is a blockchain developed by Binance and its community, that focuses on building a performant matching engine and exchange over a decentralized network.

The Binance chain development series is split into 6 chapters and is meant give you a deep dive into building with Binance chain

Let's get started

In this section, we are going to set up a VPS light client node on mainnet

I am assuming you have already set up your cloud VPS server if you haven't click here, I'll jump right into it

There are two types of Binance Chain client

• Light client:- does not sync state or relay transactions
• Fullnode: - downloads full blockchain and relays transactions

for more details on these, click here

Let's kick off by downloading the node-binary

    git clone https://github.com/binance-chain/node-binary.git

Cd into the node-binary folder you will see the following

let's explore some of the options here

• CLI:- this is where we interact with Binance Chain from our VPS, more on this in later Chapters
• Docker:- setup node using docker
• Fullnode:- Setting up a fullnode
• Lightnode:- Setting up a light node

    cd lightnode/prod/0.6.3/linux

version 0.6.3 is latest at time of writing

Starting our node

./lightd --chain-id "Binance-Chain-Tigris" --node tcp://dataseed1.binance.org:80 > node.log & 

We have our light client running !!!

What’s Next?

In the next chapter, we will look at issuing a BEP2 token. Stay tuned!