This helps you setup a local bsc chain test node using a binary called bnbchaind. For the binary to be installed in your machine, you will need to run the following commands. The first command downloads a installer script that can be executed that will place binaries in correct folders for you.
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binance-chain/node-binary/master/install.sh
sh install.sh
The script will provide bnbchaind and bnbcli binaries. Just to make sure everything is working fine:
bnbchaind version
bnbcli version
Then we need to create a genesis file and start the network just like we do using geth for full/test ethereum validator nodes. For that move in your preferred folder and:
bnbchaind init --home /home/neymar/bscchain/localnet --moniker test
The command initializes the genesis file. This file is essential to bootstrap the local test node. Copy the genesis.json and other files to $home/config.
cp ./network/config/genesis /home/neymar/config
Now, we can start our bsc local node.
bnbchaind start --home $home