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# Airchains - varanasi-1

Public Endpoints

> <https://airchains-testnet-rpc.validator247.com/>
>
> <https://airchains-testnet-api.validator247.com/>

Explorer

> <https://explorer.validator247.com/airchains-testnet/staking>

## Installation

Recommended Hardware: 4 Cores, 8GB RAM, 200GB of storage (NVME)

```
# install dependencies, if needed
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl git wget htop tmux build-essential jq make lz4 gcc unzip -y
```

```
# install go, if needed
cd $HOME
VER="1.22.3"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$VER.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "go$VER.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
rm "go$VER.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
[ ! -f ~/.bash_profile ] && touch ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:~/go/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
[ ! -d ~/go/bin ] && mkdir -p ~/go/bin


# download binary
cd $HOME
wget -O junctiond https://github.com/airchains-network/junction/releases/download/v0.3.2/junctiond-linux-amd64
chmod +x junctiond
mv junctiond $HOME/go/bin/

# config and init app
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
source $HOME/.cargo/env
junctiond init <node_name> --chain-id varanasi-1 

# download genesis and addrbook
wget -O addrbook.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Validator247/Airchains-varanasi-1/main/addrbook.json
wget -O genesis.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Validator247/Airchains-varanasi-1/main/genesis.json

# set seeds and peers
SEEDS="4eff6ecc2323811d18c7e06319b2d8bbf58590d1@65.108.233.73:19656,562e107ee9ea7155b1b277a823f563e4f070d572@[2a03:cfc0:8000:13::b910:27be]:13756,f84b41b95e828ee915aea19dd656cca7d39cf47b@37.17.244.207:33656,35a520b713bcae607e9d77d0b61eb592b8311c81@14.167.153.189:11656,43c265128fd9be02721df03e8ba4bcf8c982a062@1.53.252.54:26656,ad40b693a907181cad7f9db73ae7590206418d5e@65.109.84.33:26756,1d7a1809b616ce2437a5978bebbfcefec4bc3aa0@193.34.212.80:60656,b43f7c96bb780d9ac535d3c1f78092cf8c455e85@104.36.23.246:26656,d55b5d55e89d22c2b8dcaeb09b001b3b068af91d@37.27.127.145:63656,0b4e78189c9148dda5b1b98c6e46b764337558a3@91.227.33.18:19656"

PEERS="4eff6ecc2323811d18c7e06319b2d8bbf58590d1@65.108.233.73:19656,562e107ee9ea7155b1b277a823f563e4f070d572@[2a03:cfc0:8000:13::b910:27be]:13756,f84b41b95e828ee915aea19dd656cca7d39cf47b@37.17.244.207:33656,35a520b713bcae607e9d77d0b61eb592b8311c81@14.167.153.189:11656,43c265128fd9be02721df03e8ba4bcf8c982a062@1.53.252.54:26656,ad40b693a907181cad7f9db73ae7590206418d5e@65.109.84.33:26756,1d7a1809b616ce2437a5978bebbfcefec4bc3aa0@193.34.212.80:60656,b43f7c96bb780d9ac535d3c1f78092cf8c455e85@104.36.23.246:26656,d55b5d55e89d22c2b8dcaeb09b001b3b068af91d@37.27.127.145:63656,0b4e78189c9148dda5b1b98c6e46b764337558a3@91.227.33.18:19656"
sed -i -e "/^\[p2p\]/,/^\[/{s/^[[:space:]]*seeds *=.*/seeds = \"$SEEDS\"/}" \
       -e "/^\[p2p\]/,/^\[/{s/^[[:space:]]*persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"/}" $HOME/.junctiond/config/config.toml




# config pruning
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"custom\"/" $HOME/.junctiond/config/app.toml 
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"100\"/" $HOME/.junctiond/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"19\"/" $HOME/.junctiond/config/app.toml

# set minimum gas price, enable prometheus and disable indexing
sed -i 's|minimum-gas-prices =.*|minimum-gas-prices = "0.001uamf"|g' $HOME/.junctiond/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/prometheus = false/prometheus = true/" $HOME/.junctiond/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"null\"/" $HOME/.junctiond/config/config.toml

# create service file
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/junctiond.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Airchains node
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
WorkingDirectory=$HOME/.junctiond
ExecStart=$(which junctiond) start --home $HOME/.junctiond
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable junctiond

sudo systemctl restart junctiond && sudo journalctl -u junctiond -f -o cat
```

#### Create wallet <a href="#create-wallet" id="create-wallet"></a>

```
# to create a new wallet
junctiond keys add <key_name>

# to restore exexuting wallet
junctiond keys add <key_name> --recover


# check sync status
junctiond status 2>&1 | jq 

# check balance
junctiond query bank balances <wallet_address> 
```

#### Create validator <a href="#create-validator" id="create-validator"></a>

```
cd $HOME
# Create validator.json file
echo "{\"pubkey\":{\"@type\":\"/cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey\",\"key\":\"$(junctiond comet show-validator | grep -Po '\"key\":\s*\"\K[^"]*')\"},
    \"amount\": \"1000000uamf\",
    \"moniker\": \"test\",
    \"identity\": \"\",
    \"website\": \"\",
    \"security\": \"\",
    \"details\": \"I love mama\",
    \"commission-rate\": \"0.1\",
    \"commission-max-rate\": \"0.2\",
    \"commission-max-change-rate\": \"0.01\",
    \"min-self-delegation\": \"1\"
}" > validator.json
# Create a validator using the JSON configuration
junctiond tx staking create-validator validator.json \
    --from <name_key> \
    --chain-id varanasi-1 \
	--fees 200uamf \
	
	
```

#### Upgrade Version  <a href="#delete" id="delete"></a>

```
cd $HOME
wget -O junctiond https://github.com/airchains-network/junction/releases/download/v0.3.2/junctiond-linux-amd64
chmod +x junctiond
sudo mv $HOME/junctiond $(which junctiond)

sudo systemctl restart junctiond 
udo journalctl -u junctiond -f -o cat 
```

#### Delete node <a href="#delete" id="delete"></a>

```
sudo systemctl stop junctiond
sudo systemctl disable junctiond
sudo rm -rf /etc/systemd/system/junctiond.service
sudo rm $(which junctiond)
sudo rm -rf $HOME/.junctiond
sed -i "/AIRCHAIN_/d" $HOME/.bash_profile
```