diff --git a/alephium/Dockerfile b/alephium/Dockerfile
index 20e7db3..4b954ed 100644
--- a/alephium/Dockerfile
+++ b/alephium/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,20 @@
 ARG UPSTREAM_VERSION
+ARG TARGETOS
+ARG TARGETARCH
+
+FROM golang:1.19-buster as builder
+
+RUN GOOS=${TARGETOS} GOARCH=${TARGETARCH} go install github.com/touilleio/tee-hash@latest
+
 FROM alephium/alephium:${UPSTREAM_VERSION}
 
-ADD user.conf /alephium-home/.alephium/user.conf
+COPY --from=builder /go/bin/tee-hash /usr/local/bin/tee-hash
+
+COPY user.conf /alephium-home/.alephium/user.conf
+COPY snapshot-loader.sh /snapshot-loader.sh
+COPY entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
+
+EXPOSE 9973/tcp
+EXPOSE 9973/udp
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
diff --git a/alephium/entrypoint.sh b/alephium/entrypoint.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8bfd08e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alephium/entrypoint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+ALEPHIUM_HOME=${ALEPHIUM_HOME:-/alephium-home/.alephium}
+ALEPHIUM_NETWORK=${ALEPHIUM_NETWORK:-mainnet}
+
+# snapshot-loader.sh originally available at from https://github.com/touilleio/alephium-standalone
+# Call snapshot-loader.sh and ensure it completed successfully, stopping the execution otherwise.
+if ! ./snapshot-loader.sh
+then
+  echo "Loading the snapshot failed. See logs above for more details, apply recommended actions and retry"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Copy default user.conf if it does not exists already
+if [ ! -f "$ALEPHIUM_HOME/user.conf" ]
+then
+    echo "Copying standalone user.conf file"
+    cp "/user-$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK.conf" "$ALEPHIUM_HOME/user.conf"
+fi
+
+echo "Starting java -jar /alephium.jar ${JAVA_NET_OPTS} ${JAVA_MEM_OPTS} ${JAVA_GC_OPTS} ${JAVA_EXTRA_OPTS} ${EXTRA_OPTS} $@"
+exec java -jar /alephium.jar ${JAVA_NET_OPTS} ${JAVA_MEM_OPTS} ${JAVA_GC_OPTS} ${JAVA_EXTRA_OPTS} ${EXTRA_OPTS} $@
diff --git a/alephium/snapshot-loader.sh b/alephium/snapshot-loader.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..98c8984
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alephium/snapshot-loader.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+ALEPHIUM_HOME=${ALEPHIUM_HOME:-/alephium-home/.alephium}
+ALEPHIUM_NETWORK=${ALEPHIUM_NETWORK:-mainnet}
+ALEPHIUM_FORCE_RELOAD_SNAPSHOT=${ALEPHIUM_FORCE_RELOAD_SNAPSHOT:-0}
+
+# If tee-hash (https://github.com/touilleio/tee-hash) is available, validates the checksum of the downloaded file.
+# Do not validate the checksum otherwise
+TEE_HASH_CMD=$(which cat)
+VALIDATE_CHECKSUM=0
+CHECKSUM_FILE=${CHECKSUM_FILE:-/var/tmp/sha256sum}
+if which tee-hash >/dev/null
+then
+  TEE_HASH_CMD="tee-hash --output ${CHECKSUM_FILE}"
+  VALIDATE_CHECKSUM=1
+fi
+
+# Checking for ALEPHIUM_HOME folder is writable
+if [ ! -w "$ALEPHIUM_HOME" ]
+then
+    echo "Error: Data folder $ALEPHIUM_HOME is not writable by $(whoami). Please change ownership and/or permissions to $ALEPHIUM_HOME or its mount so $(whoami) can write on it, then relaunch"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Check ALEPHIUM_NETWORK environment variable value
+if [ "$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK" != "mainnet" ] && [ "$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK" != "testnet" ]
+then
+    echo "Error: Network $ALEPHIUM_NETWORK is unsupported. Possible values are mainnet and testnet. Please fix the ALEPHIUM_NETWORK environment variable and relaunch"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Cleanup from previous run, if needed
+rm -fr "$ALEPHIUM_HOME/${ALEPHIUM_NETWORK}-snapshot" || true
+
+if [ "${ALEPHIUM_FORCE_RELOAD_SNAPSHOT}" != "0" ]
+then
+    echo "Removing ${ALEPHIUM_NETWORK} network data"
+    rm -rf "${ALEPHIUM_HOME:?}/$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK"
+fi
+
+# If the full node network data storage folder does not exist (i.e. first run of the full node), loading the snapshot
+if [ ! -d "$ALEPHIUM_HOME/$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK" ]
+then
+    echo "Loading $ALEPHIUM_NETWORK snapshot from official https://archives.alephium.org"
+    # Creating a temp folder (on the same volume) where snapshot will be loaded
+    mkdir "$ALEPHIUM_HOME/${ALEPHIUM_NETWORK}-snapshot"
+    curl -L "$(curl -s https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/archives.alephium.org/archives/$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK/full-node-data/_latest.txt)" | $TEE_HASH_CMD | tar xf - -C "$ALEPHIUM_HOME/${ALEPHIUM_NETWORK}-snapshot"
+    res=$?
+    if [ "$res" != "0" ]; # If curl or tar command failed, stopping the load of the snapshot.
+    then
+      echo "Error: Loading and untar'ing the snapshot failed."
+      exit 1
+    fi
+    if [ "${VALIDATE_CHECKSUM}" = "1" ]
+    then
+      # Check sha256 of what has been downloaded
+      remote_sha256sum="$(curl -s https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/archives.alephium.org/archives/$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK/full-node-data/_latest.txt.sha256sum)"
+      local_sha256sum=$(cat "${CHECKSUM_FILE}")
+      if [ "$remote_sha256sum" != "$local_sha256sum" ]
+      then
+        echo "Error: Checksum is not good."
+        exit 1
+      fi
+    fi
+    # If the loading of the snapshot went well on the temp folder, move it to its final location
+    mv "$ALEPHIUM_HOME/${ALEPHIUM_NETWORK}-snapshot/$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK" "$ALEPHIUM_HOME"
+    # Cleanup to keep every thing nice and shiny
+    rmdir "$ALEPHIUM_HOME/${ALEPHIUM_NETWORK}-snapshot"
+    echo "Loading $ALEPHIUM_NETWORK snapshot completed successfully in $ALEPHIUM_HOME/${ALEPHIUM_NETWORK}."
+else
+    echo "Folder $ALEPHIUM_HOME/$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK already exists, not loading the snapshot. If this is not expected, please manually remove the folder $ALEPHIUM_HOME/$ALEPHIUM_NETWORK or set ALEPHIUM_FORCE_RELOAD_SNAPSHOT=1 and restart"
+fi
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 5038ac6..2437c30 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ services:
       - "alephium-data:/alephium-home/.alephium"
       - "alephium-wallets:/alephium-home/.alephium-wallets"
     environment:
+      ALEPHIUM_FORCE_RELOAD_SNAPSHOT: 0
       EXTRA_OPTS: ""
   postgres:
     image: "postgres.alephium.dnp.dappnode.eth:0.1.0"