RPC and Snapshot

Public Endpoints

RPC: https://ksm.rpc.mainnet.chaindigital.io

Explorer: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss://ksm.rpc.mainnet.chaindigital.io#/explorer

Snapshots

You can open the interactive CHAIN DIGITAL Snapshot Dashboard, which provides both Polkadot and Kusama snapshots in archive and pruned formats.

🟢 Open Polkadot & Kusama Snapshot Dashboard →

Snapshot pruned

updated every day

db: RocksDb

Install dependencies

sudo apt install lz4 -y

Download snapshot

cd $HOME
sudo systemctl stop kusama.service

rm -r $HOME/.kusama/chains/ksmcc3/db/
curl https://snapshots.chaindigital.tech/kusama/ksm_2025-12-05.tar.lz4 | lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.kusama/chains/ksmcc3

sudo systemctl restart kusama.service && sudo journalctl -u kusama.service -f

Snapshot archive

updated every three days

db: ParityDb

Install dependencies

sudo apt install lz4 -y

Download snapshot

cd $HOME
sudo systemctl stop kusama.service

rm -r $HOME/.kusama/chains/ksmcc3/db/
curl https://snapshots.chaindigital.tech/kusama/ksm-paritydb-archive_2025-12-05.tar.lz4 -dc - | tar -xf - -C $HOME/.kusama/chains/ksmcc3

sudo systemctl restart kusama.service && sudo journalctl -u kusama.service -f