PATH Config File (`.config.yaml`)

CONFIGURATION FILES

A PATH stack is configured via two files:

File	Required	Description
.config.yaml	✅	PATH gateway configurations
.values.yaml	❌	PATH Helm chart deployment configurations

Table of Contents

• Config File Validation
• Config File Location (Local Development)
• shannon_config (required)
• morse_config (required)
• hydrator_config (optional)
  • Manually Disable QoS Checks for a Service
• router_config (optional)
• logger_config (optional)
• data_reporter_config (optional)

All configuration for the PATH gateway is defined in a single YAML file named .config.yaml.

Exactly one of shannon_config or morse_config MUST be provided. This field determines the protocol that the gateway will use.

Example Shannon Config (click to expand)

# (Required) Shannon Protocol Configuration
shannon_config:
  full_node_config:
    rpc_url: https://shannon-testnet-grove-rpc.beta.poktroll.com
    grpc_config:
      host_port: shannon-testnet-grove-grpc.beta.poktroll.com:443
    lazy_mode: false

  gateway_config:
    gateway_mode: "centralized"
    gateway_address: pokt1up7zlytnmvlsuxzpzvlrta95347w322adsxslw
    gateway_private_key_hex: 40af4e7e1b311c76a573610fe115cd2adf1eeade709cd77ca31ad4472509d388
    owned_apps_private_keys_hex:
      - 40af4e7e1b311c76a573610fe115cd2adf1eeade709cd77ca31ad4472509d388

# (Optional) Logger Configuration
logger_config:
  level: "info" # Valid values: debug, info, warn, error

Example Morse Config (click to expand)

# (Required) Morse Protocol Configuration
morse_config:
  full_node_config:
    url: "https://pocket-rpc.liquify.com" # Required: Pocket node URL
    relay_signing_key: "<128-char-hex>" # Required: Relay signing private key
    http_config: # Optional
      retries: 3 # Default: 3
      timeout: "5000ms" # Default: "5000ms"

  signed_aats: # Required
    "<40-char-app-address>": # Application address (hex)
      client_public_key: "<64-char-hex>" # Client public key
      application_public_key: "<64-char-hex>" # Application public key
      application_signature: "<128-char-hex>" # Application signature

# (Optional) Logger Configuration
logger_config:
  level: "info" # Valid values: debug, info, warn, error

Config File Validation

VSCode Validation

If you are using VSCode, we recommend using the YAML Language Support extension for in-editor validation of the .config.yaml file. Enable it by ensuring the following annotation is present at the top of your config file:

# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildwithgrove/path/refs/heads/main/config/config.schema.yaml

Config File Location (Local Development)

In development mode, the config file must be located at:

./local/path/.config.yaml

Protocol Selection

The config file MUST contain EXACTLY one of the following top-level protocol-specific sections:

• morse_config
• shannon_config

---

shannon_config (required)

Configuration for the Shannon protocol gateway.

shannon_config:
  full_node_config:
    lazy_mode: false
    rpc_url: "https://shannon-testnet-grove-rpc.beta.poktroll.com"
    grpc_config: # Required
      host_port: "shannon-testnet-grove-grpc.beta.poktroll.com:443" # Required: gRPC host and port

      # Optional backoff and keepalive configs...
      insecure: false # Optional: whether to use insecure connection
      backoff_base_delay: "1s" # Optional: initial backoff delay duration
      backoff_max_delay: "120s" # Optional: maximum backoff delay duration
      min_connect_timeout: "20s" # Optional: minimum timeout for connection attempts
      keep_alive_time: "20s" # Optional: frequency of keepalive pings
      keep_alive_timeout: "20s" # Optional: timeout for keepalive pings

  gateway_config: # Required
    gateway_mode: "centralized" # Required: centralized, delegated, or permissionless
    gateway_address: "pokt1up7zlytnmvlsuxzpzvlrta95347w322adsxslw" # Required: Bech32 address
    gateway_private_key_hex: "<64-char-hex>" # Required: Gateway private key
    owned_apps_private_keys_hex: # Required for centralized mode only
      - "<64-char-hex>" # Application private key
      - "<64-char-hex>" # Additional application private keys...

full_node_config

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
rpc_url	string	Yes	-	URL of the Shannon RPC endpoint
grpc_config	object	Yes	-	gRPC connection configuration
lazy_mode	boolean	No	false	If true, disables caching of onchain data (e.g. apps, sessions)

full_node_config.grpc_config

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
host_port	string	Yes	-	Host and port for gRPC connections
insecure	boolean	No	false	Whether to use insecure connection
backoff_base_delay	string	No	"1s"	Initial backoff delay duration
backoff_max_delay	string	No	"120s"	Maximum backoff delay duration
min_connect_timeout	string	No	"20s"	Minimum timeout for connection attempts
keep_alive_time	string	No	"20s"	Frequency of keepalive pings
keep_alive_timeout	string	No	"20s"	Timeout for keepalive pings

gateway_config

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
gateway_mode	string	Yes	-	Mode of operation: centralized, delegated, or permissionless
gateway_address	string	Yes	-	Bech32-formatted gateway address (starts with pokt1)
gateway_private_key_hex	string	Yes	-	64-character hex-encoded secp256k1 gateway private key
owned_apps_private_keys_hex	string[]	Only in centralized mode	-	List of 64-character hex-encoded secp256k1 application private keys

---

morse_config (required)

Configuration for the Morse protocol gateway.

morse_config:
  full_node_config:
    url: "https://pocket-rpc.liquify.com" # Required: Pocket node URL
    relay_signing_key: "<128-char-hex>" # Required: Relay signing private key
    http_config: # Optional
      retries: 3 # Default: 3
      timeout: "5000ms" # Default: "5000ms"

  signed_aats: # Required
    "<40-char-app-address>": # Application address (hex)
      client_public_key: "<64-char-hex>" # Client public key
      application_public_key: "<64-char-hex>" # Application public key
      application_signature: "<128-char-hex>" # Application signature

full_node_config

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	Yes	-	URL of the full Pocket RPC node
relay_signing_key	string	Yes	-	128-character hex-encoded private key for signing relays

full_node_config.http_config

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
retries	integer	No	3	Number of HTTP request retry attempts
timeout	string	No	"5000ms"	HTTP request timeout duration

signed_aats

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
client_public_key	string	Yes	-	64-character hex-encoded client public key
application_public_key	string	Yes	-	64-character hex-encoded application public key
application_signature	string	Yes	-	128-character hex-encoded signature

---

hydrator_config (optional)

info

For a full list of supported QoS service implementations, refer to the QoS Documentation.

Configures the QoS hydrator. By default, all services configured in the shannon_config or morse_config sections will have QoS checks run against them.

Manually Disable QoS Checks for a Service

To manually disable QoS checks for a specific service, the qos_disabled_service_ids field may be specified in the .config.yaml file.

For example, to disable QoS checks for the Ethereum service on a Morse PATH instance, the following configuration would be added to the .config.yaml file:

hydrator_config:
  qos_disabled_service_ids:
    - "F00C"

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
run_interval_ms	string	No	"10000ms"	Interval at which the hydrator will run QoS checks
max_endpoint_check_workers	integer	No	100	Maximum number of workers to run concurrent QoS checks against a service's endpoints
qos_disabled_service_ids	array[string]	No	-	List of service IDs to exclude from QoS checks. Will throw an error on startup if a service ID is provided that the PATH instance is not configured to use.

---

router_config (optional)

Enables configuring how incoming requests are handled.

In particular, allows specifying server parameters for how the gateway handles incoming requests.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
port	integer	No	3070	Port number on which the gateway server listens
max_request_body_size	integer	No	1MB	Maximum request size in bytes
read_timeout	string	No	"5000ms" (5s)	Time limit for reading request data
write_timeout	string	No	"10000ms" (10s)	Time limit for writing response data
idle_timeout	string	No	"120000ms" (120s)	Time limit for closing idle connections

---

logger_config (optional)

Controls the logging behavior of the PATH gateway.

logger_config:
  level: "warn"

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
level	string	No	"info"	Minimum log level. Valid values are: "debug", "info", "warn", "error"

---

data_reporter_config (optional)

Configures HTTP-based data reporting to external services like BigQuery via data pipelines (e.g., Fluentd with HTTP input and BigQuery output plugins).

data_reporter_config:
  target_url: "https://fluentd-service.example.com/http-input"
  post_timeout_ms: 5000

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
target_url	string	Yes	-	HTTP endpoint URL where data will be reported (must start with http:// or https://)
post_timeout_ms	integer	No	10000	Timeout in milliseconds for HTTP POST operations. If zero or negative, default of 10000ms is used

info

Currently, only JSON-accepting data pipelines are supported as of PR #215.