# KYVE Chain node setup

By [cyberG|DVS](https://paragraph.com/@cyberg) · 2022-06-02

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**Update packages**

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

**Install packages**

`sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential bsdmainutils git make ncdu unzip -y`

**Install Go**

`ver="1.18"`

`wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"`

`sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"`

`echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile`

`source $HOME/.bash_profile`

**Download binary**

`wget https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/releases/download/v0.3.0/chain_linux_amd64.tar.gz`

`tar -xvzf chain_linux_amd64.tar.gz`

`chmod +x chaind sudo`

`mv chaind $HOME/go/bin/`

**Init chain**

`chaind init <moniker> --chain-id korellia`

`chaind config chain-id korellia`

**Download Genesis**

`wget https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/releases/download/v0.0.1/genesis.json`

`mv genesis.json ~/.kyve/config/genesis.json`

**Download peers**

`seeds="e56574f922ff41c68b80700266dfc9e01ecae383@18.156.198.41:26656" peers=""`

`sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds *=.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/; s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" ~/.kyve/config/config.toml`

**Create service**

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

`[Service] User=$USER ExecStart=$(which chaind) start Restart=on-failure RestartSec=10 LimitNOFILE=infinity`

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

**Enable service**

`systemctl daemon-reload`

`systemctl enable kyved`

**Restart service**

`sudo systemctl stop`

**Reset chain**

`kyved chaind unsafe-reset-all`

My wallet:

kyve1txknxmnxs7l3vzmnrv3danlkqlhdyq4krakvdz

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*Originally published on [cyberG|DVS](https://paragraph.com/@cyberg/kyve-chain-node-setup)*