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How to run a devnet? #18827
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I need to run a local devnet for development, but the documentation is unclear how to it.
Looking around, I managed to find this document, that seems to come from a thundercore, but was unable to reproduce the steps.
At the same time, I have seen some older issues comment that such options doesn't exist, while others have used the --chain=dev, which gives me the error bellow:
$ erigon --chain=dev --datadir=./dev --http.api eth,erigon,trace,ots --fakepow
INFO[01-27|11:11:10.840] logging to file system log dir=dev/logs file prefix=erigon log level=info json=false
INFO[01-27|11:11:10.842] kernel detected version=6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2
...other lines...
NFO[01-27|11:11:10.843] Starting Erigon in ephemeral dev mode...
INFO[01-27|11:11:10.847] Maximum peer count total=32
INFO[01-27|11:11:10.847] Development chain flags set --nodiscover=true --v5disc=false --port=:0
INFO[01-27|11:11:10.848] starting HTTP APIs port=8545 APIs=eth,erigon,trace,ots http.compression=true
Fatal: chain name is not recognized: devIs there a devnet mode like geth's --dev? Is there a plan for such a mode? Is there a way to run a one node private chain?
Any help is welcome.
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yperbasis commentedon Feb 10, 2026
Unfortunately, we broke the devnet mode in v3.3.0. There's Issue #14753 to restore the functionality, but it's not top priority a.t.m.