Reth Archive Node — Docker Compose

Full Ethereum archive node with complete receipt history from genesis. Uses Paradigm's official snapshot from snapshots.reth.rs to avoid a multi-week resync from scratch.

Stack

Component	Image	Purpose
Reth	ghcr.io/paradigmxyz/reth	Execution layer (EL)
Lighthouse	sigp/lighthouse	Consensus layer (CL)
Prometheus	prom/prometheus (optional)	Metrics collection
Grafana	grafana/grafana (optional)	Metrics dashboard

Disk requirements

Data	Size
Snapshot download	~170 GB
Reth archive data	~2 TB
Lighthouse beacon	~100 GB
Total needed	~2.3 TB

Quick start

# 1. Configure your data paths
nano .env

# 2. Create directories + JWT secret
chmod +x setup.sh
./setup.sh init

# 3. Download archive snapshot (~170GB, takes a few hours)
./setup.sh snapshot

# 4. Start the node
./setup.sh start

# 5. Check status
./setup.sh status

# 6. Test historic receipt availability
./setup.sh test-receipt

Manual Docker commands

# Download snapshot
docker compose --profile snapshot run --rm snapshot

# Start node
docker compose up -d reth lighthouse

# Watch logs
docker compose logs -f reth
docker compose logs -f lighthouse

# Stop
docker compose down

# Start with monitoring
docker compose --profile monitoring up -d

Ports

Port	Protocol	Service
8545	HTTP	Reth JSON-RPC
8546	WS	Reth WebSocket RPC
8551	HTTP	Engine API (internal)
30303	TCP/UDP	Reth P2P
5052	HTTP	Lighthouse API
9000	TCP/UDP	Lighthouse P2P
9001	HTTP	Reth metrics
5054	HTTP	Lighthouse metrics
9090	HTTP	Prometheus
3000	HTTP	Grafana

Verify no receipt pruning

On startup, check logs for:

Pruner initialized prune_config=PruneConfig { ... receipts: None ... }

receipts: None = full archive receipt history retained ✅

If you see receipts: Some(Distance(...)) — check config/reth.toml.

Fetch a receipt

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8545 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,
    "method":"eth_getTransactionReceipt",
    "params":["0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060"]
  }' | jq .result

This is the first ever Ethereum transaction (block 46147, Aug 2015). If it returns a receipt object, your archive is fully intact.