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# Airchains - varanasi-1
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## 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 --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 <
```
# to create a new wallet
junctiond keys add
# to restore exexuting wallet
junctiond keys add --recover
# check sync status
junctiond status 2>&1 | jq
# check balance
junctiond query bank balances
```
#### Create validator
```
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 \
--chain-id varanasi-1 \
--fees 200uamf \
```
#### Upgrade Version
```
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
```
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
```
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