diff --git a/libraries/app/application.cpp b/libraries/app/application.cpp
index 094e1cc..1dbd2cf 100644
--- a/libraries/app/application.cpp
+++ b/libraries/app/application.cpp
@@ -854,6 +854,9 @@ application::~application()
    }
 }
 
+static const string DEFAULT_SEED       = "138.197.68.175:33333";
+static const string DEFAULT_CHECKPOINT = "[3900000,\"003b8260970ee1d4e97f7a18aac40d51d0882365\"]";
+
 void application::set_program_options(boost::program_options::options_description& command_line_options,
                                       boost::program_options::options_description& configuration_file_options) const
 {
@@ -870,8 +873,8 @@ void application::set_program_options(boost::program_options::options_descriptio
    configuration_file_options.add_options()
          ("p2p-endpoint", bpo::value<string>(), "Endpoint for P2P node to listen on")
          ("p2p-max-connections", bpo::value<uint32_t>(), "Maxmimum number of incoming connections on P2P endpoint")
-         ("seed-node,s", bpo::value<vector<string>>()->composing(), "P2P nodes to connect to on startup (may specify multiple times)")
-         ("checkpoint,c", bpo::value<vector<string>>()->composing(), "Pairs of [BLOCK_NUM,BLOCK_ID] that should be enforced as checkpoints.")
+         ("seed-node,s", bpo::value<vector<string>>()->composing()->default_value(vector<string>(1,DEFAULT_SEED), DEFAULT_SEED), "P2P nodes to connect to on startup (may specify multiple times)")
+         ("checkpoint,c", bpo::value<vector<string>>()->composing()->default_value(vector<string>(1,DEFAULT_CHECKPOINT), DEFAULT_CHECKPOINT), "Pairs of [BLOCK_NUM,BLOCK_ID] that should be enforced as checkpoints.")
          ("rpc-endpoint", bpo::value<string>()->implicit_value("127.0.0.1:8090"), "Endpoint for websocket RPC to listen on")
          ("rpc-tls-endpoint", bpo::value<string>()->implicit_value("127.0.0.1:8089"), "Endpoint for TLS websocket RPC to listen on")
          ("server-pem,p", bpo::value<string>()->implicit_value("server.pem"), "The TLS certificate file for this server")