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# Installation

#### Setup validator name

```bash
MONIKER=<your_moniker>
```

#### Install dependencies

#### Update system and install build tools

```bash
sudo apt -q update
sudo apt -qy install curl git jq lz4 build-essential
sudo apt -qy upgrade
```

#### Install GO

```bash
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
curl -Ls https://go.dev/dl/go1.24.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzf - -C /usr/local
eval $(echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/golang.sh)
eval $(echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin' | tee -a $HOME/.profile)
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
go version
```

#### Download and build binaries

```bash
cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
wget -O kyved https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/releases/download/v2.2.0/kyved_mainnet_linux_amd64
chmod +x kyved
sudo mv kyved $HOME/go/bin/kyved

kyved version
```

#### Initialize the node

```bash
kyved config set client chain-id kyve-1
kyved config set client keyring-backend file
kyved config set client node tcp://localhost:26657

kyved init $MONIKER --chain-id=kyve-1
```

#### Setup config

```bash
#Download genesis and addrbook
wget -L -O $HOME/.kyve/config/genesis.json https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Kyve/genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.kyve/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Kyve/addrbook.json"

# Set seeds and peers
sed -i -e "s/^filter_peers *=.*/filter_peers = \"true\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
peers=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
seeds=""

# Set minimum gas price, enable prometheus and disable indexing
sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0ukyve\"/;" ~/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/prometheus = false/prometheus = true/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"null\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/config.toml

# Config pruning
pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.kyve/config/app.toml
```

#### Create a service file

```bash
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/kyved.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=kyve
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which kyved) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable kyved 
```

#### Download latest chain snapshot

```bash
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Kyve/ | grep -oE 'kyve-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Kyve/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Kyve/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.kyve
```

#### Start service and check the logs

```bash
sudo systemctl start kyved && sudo journalctl -u kyved -f --no-hostname -o cat
```