Verify your download

Every snapshot ships with a SHA256 checksum sidecar file. This one-liner downloads the latest archive, its checksum, and verifies them together — built for scripting a node bootstrap, not clicking through a browser.

download & verify

curl -LO /snapshots/robinhood-snapshot-latest.tar.zst && \
  curl -LO /snapshots/robinhood-snapshot-latest.tar.zst.sha256 && \
  sha256sum -c robinhood-snapshot-latest.tar.zst.sha256

What's inside the archive

data/robinhood/nitro692G
data/robinhood692G
data692G
data/robinhood/nitro/l2chaindata577G
data/robinhood/nitro/arbitrumdata115G
data/robinhood/nitro/wasm5.4M
data/robinhood/nitro/nodes56K
data/robinhood/keystore0

SHA256 checksum

Each snapshot run computes a SHA256 hash of the finished .tar.zst archive and writes it to a sidecar file with the same name plus .sha256 (e.g. robinhood-snapshot-latest.tar.zst.sha256).

The checksum covers the compressed archive exactly as downloaded — not its extracted contents
A mismatch means the file was corrupted or altered in transit; re-download and check again
The current checksum is also shown in full on the homepage's Snapshot Details

Compression format

Archives are compressed with Zstandard (.tar.zst), which shrinks the ~692G live data directory to roughly 418G.

Extract with tar -I zstd -xf <file> (requires zstd installed) or unzstd | tar -x
Compression runs against a paused, point-in-time checkpoint, not the live node, so the archive is internally consistent — see the Status page for how snapshots are captured