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# Initia

#### How To Install Full Node Initia Testnet

### Setting up vars

Your Nodename (validator) that will shows in explorer

```
NODENAME=<Your_Nodename_Moniker>
```

Save variables to system

```
echo "export NODENAME=$NODENAME" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
if [ ! $WALLET ]; then
	echo "export WALLET=wallet" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
fi
echo "export INITIA_CHAIN_ID=initiation-1" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
```

### Update packages

```
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
```

### Install dependencies

```
sudo apt install curl build-essential git wget jq make gcc tmux net-tools ccze -y
```

### Install go

```
if ! [ -x "$(command -v go)" ]; then
  ver="1.22.2"
  cd $HOME
  wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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"
  echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
  source ~/.bash_profile
fi
```

### Download and build binaries

```
cd $HOME
rm -rf initia
git clone https://github.com/initia-labs/initia.git
cd initia
git checkout v0.2.15
make install
```

### Init app

```
initiad init $NODENAME --chain-id $INITIA_CHAIN_ID
```

#### Download configuration

```
cd $HOME
wget -O $HOME/.initia/config/genesis.json https://snap1.konsortech.xyz/initia/genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.initia/config/addrbook.json https://snap1.konsortech.xyz/initia/addrbook.json
```

### Disable indexing

```
indexer="null"
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.initia/config/config.toml
```

### Config pruning

```
sed -i 's|pruning = "default"|pruning = "custom"|g' $HOME/.initia/config/app.toml
sed -i 's|pruning-keep-recent = "0"|pruning-keep-recent = "100"|g' $HOME/.initia/config/app.toml
sed -i 's|pruning-interval = "0"|pruning-interval = "19"|g' $HOME/.initia/config/app.toml
```

### Set minimum gas price

```
sed -i 's|minimum-gas-prices =.*|minimum-gas-prices = "0.15uinit,0.01uusdc"|g' $HOME/.initia/config/app.toml
```

### Create service

```
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/initiad.service > /dev/null << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Initia Node
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which initiad) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

### Register and start service

```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable initiad
sudo systemctl restart initiad && sudo journalctl -u initiad -f -o cat
```