Persistent peers drain resources and hurt validator nodes. Use them only from trusted sources like your own sentry nodes. Seed nodes are the way to go for bootstrapping: they fill up your address book and keep you from missing blocks. We've got a seed node for cosmoshub-4 if you need one.
sed -i -e "s|^seeds *=.*|seeds = \"9d09df4c75914600d3e730c895c8e8e149d3b658@cosmos-rpc.tienthuattoan.com:26656\"|" $HOME/.gaia/config/config.toml
Live Peers (7)
Peer lists can be used to sync a node as an alternative to addressbook files. Here is a list of 7 active peers as observed by TTT's state-sync server in real-time. Add them to your config.toml if you have trouble finding peers.