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+#!/bin/bash
+# microtick and bitcanna contributed significantly here.
+set -uxe
+
+# set environment variables
+export GOPATH=~/go
+export PATH=$PATH:~/go/bin
+
+
+# Install Gaia
+make install
+
+# MAKE HOME FOLDER AND GET GENESIS
+gaiad init test 
+wget -O ~/.gaia/config/genesis.json https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qmc54DreioPpPDUdJW6bBTYUKepmcPsscfqsfFcFmTaVig
+
+INTERVAL=1000
+
+# GET TRUST HASH AND TRUST HEIGHT
+
+LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s https://cosmoshub-4.technofractal.com/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height);
+BLOCK_HEIGHT=$(($LATEST_HEIGHT-$INTERVAL)) 
+TRUST_HASH=$(curl -s "https://cosmoshub-4.technofractal.com/block?height=$BLOCK_HEIGHT" | jq -r .result.block_id.hash)
+
+
+# TELL USER WHAT WE ARE DOING
+echo "TRUST HEIGHT: $BLOCK_HEIGHT"
+echo "TRUST HASH: $TRUST_HASH"
+
+
+# export state sync vars
+export GAIAD_STATESYNC_ENABLE=true
+export GAIAD_P2P_MAX_NUM_OUTBOUND_PEERS=200
+export GAIAD_STATESYNC_RPC_SERVERS="https://cosmoshub-4.technofractal.com:443,https://cosmoshub-4.technofractal.com:443"
+export GAIAD_STATESYNC_TRUST_HEIGHT=$BLOCK_HEIGHT
+export GAIAD_STATESYNC_TRUST_HASH=$TRUST_HASH
+export GAIAD_P2P_PERSISTENT_PEERS="2bb31c07148a689f0b2dd363e17631993eca1020@162.55.132.230:2010"
+export GAIAD_P2P_SEEDS="bf8328b66dceb4987e5cd94430af66045e59899f@public-seed.cosmos.vitwit.com:26656,cfd785a4224c7940e9a10f6c1ab24c343e923bec@164.68.107.188:26656,d72b3011ed46d783e369fdf8ae2055b99a1e5074@173.249.50.25:26656,ba3bacc714817218562f743178228f23678b2873@public-seed-node.cosmoshub.certus.one:26656,3c7cad4154967a294b3ba1cc752e40e8779640ad@84.201.128.115:26656,366ac852255c3ac8de17e11ae9ec814b8c68bddb@51.15.94.196:26656"
+
+gaiad start --x-crisis-skip-assert-invariants