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# Aaron Network  Validator

### Installation <a href="#installation" id="installation"></a>

Install dependencies, if needed

```bash
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential bsdmainutils git make ncdu gcc git jq htop tmux chrony liblz4-tool -y
```

Install go, if needed

```bash
cd $HOME
VER="1.23.3"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$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
go version
```

Install ignite

```
sudo curl https://get.ignite.com/cli | sudo bash
sudo mv ignite /usr/local/bin/
```

Build aaronetwork binary from source

```bash
cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/aaronetwork/aaronetwork-chain.git
cd aaronetwork-chain
git checkout v1.0.0
ignite chain build
```

Setup your variable settings

```bash
aaronetworkd init dongqn --chain-id aaronetwork
```

Download genesis file

```
wget -O $HOME/.aaronetwork/config/genesis.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aaronetwork/chain-genesis/refs/heads/main/genesis.json
```

Config Seeds, Peers, Pruning

```
sed -i.bak -e  "s%^node = \"tcp://localhost:26657\"%node = \"tcp://localhost:14657\"%" $HOME/.aaronetwork/config/client.toml
sed -i.bak -e "s%^proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26658\"%proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:14658\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26657\"%laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:14657\"%; s%^pprof_laddr = \"localhost:6060\"%pprof_laddr = \"localhost:14060\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:26656\"%laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:14656\"%; s%^prometheus_listen_addr = \":26660\"%prometheus_listen_addr = \":14660\"%" $HOME/.aaronetwork/config/config.toml
sed -i.bak -e "s%^address = \"tcp://localhost:1317\"%address = \"tcp://localhost:14317\"%; s%^address = \"localhost:9090\"%address = \"localhost:14090\"%" $HOME/.aaronetwork/config/app.toml
peers="dc647a7389d3396b0a0d72d71240b02c30c47ef7@63.250.41.78:26656,1a8c6f839120a18ff270bf3a0e57e14db6d2301c@212.34.129.79:26656,7105c9f21b0a22ba243f22d9a27ea940d2638e79@77.238.248.110:26656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" ~/.aaronetwork/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0uaaron\"/" $HOME/.aaronetwork/config/app.toml
sed -i -e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "custom"|' -e 's|^pruning-keep-recent *=.*|pruning-keep-recent = "100"|' -e 's|^pruning-keep-every *=.*|pruning-keep-every = "0"|' -e 's|^pruning-interval *=.*|pruning-interval = "19"|' $HOME/.aaronetwork/config/app.toml
sed -i 's|^indexer *=.*|indexer = "null"|' $HOME/.aaronetwork/config/config.toml
```

Create symphonyd service for your node to run in the background

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

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

Start node

```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable aaronetworkd
sudo systemctl restart aaronetworkd && sudo journalctl -fu aaronetworkd -o cat
```

**Check for your syncing progress**

```
aaronetworkd status 2>&1 | jq
```

## Create wallet

```
aaronetworkd keys add wallet

# DO NOT FORGET TO SAVE THE SEED PHRASE & YOUR PASSPHRASE YOU SET FOR THIS WALLET
# You can add --recover flag to restore existing key instead of creating
```

## &#x20;**Create validator**

```
cd $HOME
# Create validator.json file
echo "{\"pubkey\":{\"@type\":\"/cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey\",\"key\":\"$(aaronetworkd comet show-validator | grep -Po '\"key\":\s*\"\K[^"]*')\"},
    \"amount\": \"1000000uaaron\",
    \"moniker\": \"dongqn\",
    \"identity\": \"0D60B8464B1B7BB3\",
    \"website\": \"https://dongqn.com\",
    \"security\": \"\",
    \"details\": \"Making Node Setup Dongqn\",
    \"commission-rate\": \"0.1\",
    \"commission-max-rate\": \"0.2\",
    \"commission-max-change-rate\": \"0.01\",
    \"min-self-delegation\": \"1\"
}" > validator.json
aaronetworkd tx staking create-validator validator.json \
    --from wallet \
    --chain-id aaronetwork
```

View Validator details:

```
aaronetworkd q staking validator $(aaronetworkd keys show "wallet" --bech val -a)
```

Unjail:

```
aaronetworkd tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id aaronetwork
```

Send token to another wallet:

```
aaronetworkd tx bank send wallet <TO_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000uaaron --from wallet --chain-id aaronetwork
```

Delegate tokens to yourself:

```
aaronetworkd tx staking delegate $(aaronetworkd keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000uaaron --from wallet --chain-id aaronetwork
```

## Congratulation!!&#x20;