We could let our node catch up to the current block but this would take a very long time. Instead we will download a snapshot of the blockchain before starting our node.
NOTE - at the time of this writing the snapshot is 200GB and could take some time to pull down.
rm -rf ~/.akash/data; \
mkdir -p ~/.akash/data; \
cd ~/.akash
The latest Akash snapshot version - made available via The Offical Akash Network Snapshot - can be found here. This snapshot is updated every hour.
wget -O akashnet-2_latest.tar.lz4 https://snapshots.akash.network/akashnet-2/akashnet-2_latest.tar.lz4 --inet4-only
apt-get install lz4
lz4 -d akashnet-2_latest.tar.lz4
tar -xvf akashnet-2_latest.tar