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# Installation

```
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
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
```

Edit the Moniker name according to yourself!

```
echo "export MONIKER="MONİKER NAME"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo "export STORY_CHAIN_ID="iliad-0"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo "export STORY_PORT="52"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
```

Download the binary file

```
cd $HOME
wget -O geth https://github.com/piplabs/story-geth/releases/download/v0.9.4/geth-linux-amd64
chmod +x $HOME/geth
mv $HOME/geth ~/go/bin/
[ ! -d "$HOME/.story/story" ] && mkdir -p "$HOME/.story/story"
[ ! -d "$HOME/.story/geth" ] && mkdir -p "$HOME/.story/geth"
```

Proceed to the installation process

```
cd $HOME
rm -rf story
git clone https://github.com/piplabs/story
cd story
git checkout v0.11.0
go build -o story ./client 
mv $HOME/story/story $HOME/go/bin/
```

Launch the Story app (Don't forget to edit the Moniker Name according to yourself

```
story init --moniker MONİKER NAME --network iliad
```

Seed And Peers !

```
SEEDS="5a0191a6bd8f17c9d2fa52386ff409f5d796d112@b1.testnet.storyrpc.io:26656,0e2f0d4b5204e5e92a994a1eaa745b9ccb1d747b@b2.testnet.storyrpc.io:26656"
PEERS="74a64d129777b98133776c76872df8671b9050f5@157.173.124.155:26656,2415dfb9dbf3b3ee77824697127aecab87d18598@176.9.54.69:26656,7ff2bc32733d4f191d7b7d7b5ccac28149edf11a@157.173.116.189:26656"
sed -i -e "/^\[p2p\]/,/^\[/{s/^[[:space:]]*seeds *=.*/seeds = \"$SEEDS\"/}" \
       -e "/^\[p2p\]/,/^\[/{s/^[[:space:]]*persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$PEERS\"/}" $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml
```

Genesis And Addrbook

```
wget -O $HOME/.story/story/config/genesis.json https://noderuner.xyz/testnet/story/genesis.json
wget -O $HOME/.story/story/config/addrbook.json https://noderuner.xyz/testnet/story/addrbook.json
```

Configuring Port Settings

```
sed -i.bak -e "s%:1317%:${STORY_PORT}317%g;
s%:8551%:${STORY_PORT}551%g" $HOME/.story/story/config/story.toml
```

<pre><code>sed -i.bak -e "s%:26658%:${STORY_PORT}658%g;
s%:26657%:${STORY_PORT}657%g;
<strong>s%:26656%:${STORY_PORT}656%g;
</strong>s%^external_address = \"\"%external_address = \"$(wget -qO- eth0.me):${STORY_PORT}656\"%;
s%:26660%:${STORY_PORT}660%g" $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml
</code></pre>

Enable Prometheus and disable indexing

```
sed -i -e "s/prometheus = false/prometheus = true/" $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"null\"/" $HOME/.story/story/config/config.toml
```

Create a Geth Service File

```
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/story-geth.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Story Geth daemon
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$HOME/go/bin/geth --iliad --syncmode full --http --http.api eth,net,web3,engine --http.vhosts '*' --http.addr 0.0.0.0 --http.port ${STORY_PORT}545 --authrpc.port ${STORY_PORT}551 --ws --ws.api eth,web3,net,txpool --ws.addr 0.0.0.0 --ws.port ${STORY_PORT}546
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

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

Create a Story Service File

```
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/story.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Story Service
After=network.target

[Service]
User=$USER
WorkingDirectory=$HOME/.story/story
ExecStart=$(which story) run

Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

After the above operations, proceed to the snapshot step, and wait for it to sync with the network

Enable and Start Geth, Story

```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable story story-geth
sudo systemctl restart story story-geth
```

Watch the logs

```
journalctl -u story -u story-geth -f
```

Create validator

```
story validator export
```

Export private key ( don't forget to back up )

```
Export EVM private key
```

```
cat $HOME/.story/story/config/private_key.txt
```

Create validator

```
cd $HOME/.story
story validator create --stake 1000000000000000000
```