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+- Reworks the way the ledger waits for genesis start. It now fully initializes the node and 
+  outputs logs before sleeping until genesis start time. Previously it would not start any 
+  processes until genesis times, giving no feedback to users until genesis time was reached.
+  ([\#2502](https://github.com/anoma/namada/pull/2502))
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