# Gaia-10K Launch Thread

**URL:** <https://forum.cosmos.network/t/gaia-10k-launch-thread/1533>\
**Category:** Validation\
**Created:** [January 25, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/gaia-10k-launch-thread/1533 "2019-01-25T06:01:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![suyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@suyu](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/suyu)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/gaia-10k-launch-thread/1533/1 "2019-01-25T06:01:04Z")

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Gaia-10K will test cosmos-sdk v0.30.0: [https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/releases/tag/v0.30.0](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/releases/tag/v0.30.0)

Steps to join Gaid:

1. Install `gaia`:

```auto
gaiad version
cosmos-sdk: 0.30.0-0-ge003c5eb

```

1. Init your gaia-home

```auto
gaiad init --chain-id=gaia-10k --moniker=XXX

```

1. Download the new genesis file from: [https://github.com/cosmos/testnets/blob/master/gaia-10k/genesis.json](https://github.com/cosmos/testnets/blob/master/gaia-10k/genesis.json) and replace the generated genesis file
2. Run gentx command

```auto
gaiad gentx \
  --amount 10000stake \
  --commission-rate "1.00" \
  --commission-max-rate "1.00" \
  --commission-max-change-rate "1.00" \
  --pubkey $(gaiad tendermint show-validator) \
  --name <key-name>

```

1. submit your gentx to [https://github.com/cosmos/testnets/tree/master/gaia-10k](https://github.com/cosmos/testnets/tree/master/gaia-10k)

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**Author:** ![kwunyeung](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/kwunyeung/32/68_2.png) [@kwunyeung](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/kwunyeung)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/gaia-10k-launch-thread/1533/2 "2019-01-25T06:04:49Z")

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```auto
gaiad gentx \
  --amount 10000stake \
  --commission-rate "1.00" \
  --commission-max-rate "1.00" \
  --commission-max-change-rate "1.00" \
  --pubkey $(gaiad tendermint show-validator) \
  --name <key-id>

```

Please note the denom is `stake` but not `STAKE` for `gaia-10k` .

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**Author:** ![bharvest](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/bharvest/32/1042_2.png) [@bharvest](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/bharvest)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/gaia-10k-launch-thread/1533/3 "2019-01-25T06:07:30Z")

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i remember now the case is not sensitive from 0.30 🙂

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**Author:** ![kwunyeung](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/kwunyeung/32/68_2.png) [@kwunyeung](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/kwunyeung)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/gaia-10k-launch-thread/1533/4 "2019-01-25T06:11:08Z")

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It doesn’t accept uppercase at all.

`ERROR: denom cannot contain upper case characters: STAKE`

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**Author:** ![katernoir](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/katernoir/32/96_2.png) [@katernoir](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/katernoir)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/gaia-10k-launch-thread/1533/5 "2019-01-25T10:00:20Z")

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I probably won’t be able to make it to this launch, so I’m not even submitting a gentx. I will probably come online Saturday.