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You can configure the number of blocks a full node retains (see `--state-pruning` and `--blocks-pruning` options).
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Although older states are discarded, full nodes retain all the blocks from genesis to the head, allowing them to rebuild all the intermediate states.
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It is achieved by taking the genesis state as initial state and executing all the blocks successively on top of if.
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This is achieved by taking the genesis state as initial state and executing all the blocks successively on top of if.
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Retrieving information about some previous state thus requires an expensive computation which can be avoided by using an archive node, which does not discard the states.
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Full nodes allow you to read the current state of the chain and to submit and validate transactions directly on the network.
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