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7 stories

Storage4 min read

Apothem datadir size by xOne client: measured after snap sync

How big an xOne Apothem datadir is after snap sync, per client: 13 to 72 GB as recorded in issue 149, a fresh byte count, growth over eight hours, and why.

Nov 15, 2026Read story
RPC4 min read

xOne for XDC RPC providers: archive vs full, retention errors

What an XDC RPC provider gets from an xOneRS node: archive versus full reads, the typed unsupported-history error, eth_capabilities and the Apothem sweep.

Nov 15, 2026Read story
Networks7 min read

xOne on Apothem vs net2040: what changes for an operator

Compare xOne on XDC Apothem and net2040: chain id, V2 switch block, bootnodes, state size, sync modes, --mine rules, quiet window and measured follower numbers.

Nov 15, 2026Read story
Testing12 min read

XDC fleet snapshot 2026-11-15: xOne and other clients

Every node of the xOne fleet on net2040 and Apothem at 2026-11-15 01:50 UTC: head, lag, disk, memory and RPC sample, plus one correction to an earlier row.

Nov 15, 2026Read story
Testing6 min read

Why a one-block reorg wedged an xOne node on Apothem

Post-mortem of xOneRS issue 577: a one-block reorg stopped an Apothem validator. Read the cause, the per-block undo added in PR 606, its test and open work.

Nov 15, 2026Read story
Measurement4 min read

reth-xdc on Apothem: a slow catch-up measured over nine samples

A reth-xdc minimal node on Apothem held a gap of about 48,900 blocks for seven hours, then gained about 30 blocks a minute. The samples, rate and ETA.

Nov 15, 2026Read story
Testing6 min read

xOne vs erigon-xdc: what we could measure on Apothem

One read of the only erigon-xdc node, on Apothem, while it re-synced from block 0: datadir and memory only, next to xOne rows and published erigon-xdc claims.

Nov 15, 2026Read story
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Use the pinned Rust toolchain and platform build prerequisites in the repository.

git clone https://github.com/XDCIndia/xOneRS.git
cd xOneRS
cargo build --locked --release -p xone
./target/release/xone --version

This recipe builds the client; it does not start a node. Mainnet operation is not yet qualified.

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