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 Quick Start:
 1. Copy .env.example to .env and set RPC_URL
 2. Create new venv `python -m venv .venv`
-3. Activate venv `.venv/bin/activate`
+3. Activate venv `source .venv/bin/activate`
 4. Install dependencies `pip install -r requirements.txt`
-5. In one terminal, run the backend with `gunicorn backend.app:app -c gunicorn_config.py` (this might take a while to start up)
-6. In another terminal, run the frontend with `streamlit run src/main.py`
+5. `export RPC_URL= <YOUR_RPC_URL>`
+6. In one terminal, run the backend with `gunicorn backend.app:app -c gunicorn_config.py` (this might take a while to start up)
+7. In another terminal, run the frontend with `streamlit run src/main.py`
 
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