Near Gateway
The Near gateway acts as a bridge between your Near node and the Marlin relay network, enabling them to understand and talk to each other. In addition, it handles most of the Marlin related interactions for you like optimizing peer sets, attesting messages, generating tickets, etc.
Quickstart
This section assumes that marlinctl is installed already. See here if you have not installed it.
Step 1: Generate a client identity for the gateway by running the below command and entering a passphrase when prompted
sudo marlinctl gateway near keystore create
Step 2: Create the gateway
sudo marlinctl gateway near create --bootstrap-addr "18.144.140.68:8002"
Step 3: Retrieve the near node identity of the gateway by checking keyfile configuration (the alphanumeric NodeID would most likely be different for you).
INFO Keyfile information
Key Value
NodeId cd276853b1c116f5bf8900b72694fb022800d276
Step 4: Add the gateway as a persistent peer to your Near node.
That's it!