Setup Aligned Infrastructure Locally

Aligned Infrastructure Deployment Guide

Dependencies

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Go

• Rust

• Foundry

• jq

• yq

After installing foundryup, you need to install a specific Foundry version:

foundryup -i v1.1.0

Then run:

make deps

This will:

• Initialize git submodules

• Install: eigenlayer-cli, zap-pretty and abigen

• Build ffis for your os.

Contracts and eth node

To start anvil, a local Ethereum devnet with all necessary contracts already deployed and ready to be interacted with, run:

make anvil_start

More information on deploying the smart contracts on anvil:

EigenLayer Contracts

If EigenLayer contracts change, the anvil state needs to be updated with:

make anvil_deploy_eigen_contracts

This also deploys an ERC20 token with a strategy that can be used to test the EigenLayer restaking.

Aligned Contracts

When changing Aligned contracts, the anvil state needs to be updated with:

make anvil_deploy_aligned_contracts

Note that when changing the contracts, you must also re-generate the Go smart contract bindings:

make bindings

Aggregator

To start the Aggregator:

make aggregator_start ENVIRONMENT=devnet

or with a custom config:

make aggregator_start ENVIRONMENT=devnet AGG_CONFIG_FILE=<path_to_config_file>

Operator

To setup an Operator run:

make operator_full_registration_and_start ENVIRONMENT=devnet

or with a custom config:

make operator_full_registration_and_start ENVIRONMENT=devnet CONFIG_FILE=<path_to_config_file>

Different configs for operators can be found in config-files/config-operator.

More information about Operator registration:

If you wish to only register an operator you can run:

make operator_full_registration CONFIG_FILE=<path_to_config_file>

and to start it once it has been registered:

make operator_start ENVIRONMENT=devnet CONFIG_FILE=<path_to_config_file>

Batcher

To start the Batcher locally:

make batcher_start_local

This starts a localstack to act as a replacement for S3.

If you want to use the batcher under a real S3 connection you'll need to specify the environment variables under crates/batcher/.env and then run:

make batcher_start

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Other components

Aligned also counts with 2 external components, which are not necessary for Aligned to work, but are useful for observability.

Explorer

Dependencies

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Erlang 26

• Elixir 1.16.2, compiled with OTP 26

• Docker

• NodeJS

  • Tested with node 20 and 22

• pnpm

After installing the necessary deps, setup the environment variables by running:

make explorer_create_env

Then start the explorer:

make explorer_build_db
make explorer_start

This will:

• Start a postgres docker container

• Run ecto setup

• Start the explorer on http://localhost:4000.

Clean, dump and recover DB

To clear the DB, you can run:

make explorer_clean_db

If you need to dump the data from the DB, you can run:

make explorer_dump_db

This will create a dump.$date.sql SQL script on the explorer directory with all the existing data.

Data can be recovered from a dump.$date.sql using the following command:

make explorer_recover_db

Then you'll be requested to enter the file name of the dump you want to recover already positioned in the /explorer directory.

This will update your database with the dumped database data.

Fetching batches and operators data

If you want to fetch past batches that for any reason were not inserted into the DB, you will first need to make sure you have the ELIXIR_HOSTNAME in the .env file.

You can get the hostname of your elixir by running:

elixir -e 'IO.puts(:inet.gethostname() |> elem(1))'

Then you can run:

make explorer_fetch_old_batches FROM_BLOCK=<FROM_BLOCK> TO_BLOCK=<TO_BLOCK>

To get operators strategies and restakes data:

make explorer_fetch_old_operators_strategies_restakes FROM_BLOCK=<FROM_BLOCK>

Metrics/Telemetry

The Metrics and Telemetry are used to view more in-depth information about the network. With it, you can visualize all sort of cumulative and historical metrics of the network, of the individual components and their behaviors. Tese services are not necessary to run aligned, though you will see warnings in the rest of components as they won't be able to connect and send their status.

Dependencies

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Go

• Erlang 26

• Elixir 1.16.2, compiled with OTP 26

• Docker

Metrics service

To run Prometheus and Grafana, run:

make metrics_start

This will start containers for Prometheus and Grafana. You can access Grafana on http://localhost:3000 with the default credentials admin:admin.

Alternately, you can access the raw scrapped metrics collected with Prometheus on http://localhost:9091/metrics.

Telemetry service

To setup the telemetry service run:

If it is your first time first you'll need to execute the following commands:

make telemetry_create_env
make telemetry_build_db

Then, to start the service:

make telemetry_start_all

This will:

• Start OpenTelemetry and Jaeger containers for the traces: available at http://localhost:16686/

• Start telemetry server: available at http://localhost:4001/

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Send test proofs

To send proofs quickly you can run any of the targets that have the prefix batcher_send for example:

Send a single plonk proof:

make batcher_send_plonk_bn254_task

Send a burst of <N> risc0 proofs:

make batcher_send_risc0_burst BURST_SIZE=<N>

Send an infinite stream of groth_16 proofs:

make batcher_send_groth16_bn254_infinite BURST_SIZE=2

Feel free to explore the rest of targets.

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