diff --git a/charts/akash-node/Chart.yaml b/charts/akash-node/Chart.yaml
index af9e38e8..106a6f9a 100644
--- a/charts/akash-node/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/akash-node/Chart.yaml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ type: application
 # Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
 
 # Major version bit highlights the mainnet release (e.g. mainnet4 = 4.x.x, mainnet5 = 5.x.x, ...)
-version: 11.1.0
+version: 11.1.1
 
 # This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
 # incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
diff --git a/charts/akash-node/scripts/init.sh b/charts/akash-node/scripts/init.sh
index 3c5936be..419996cf 100644
--- a/charts/akash-node/scripts/init.sh
+++ b/charts/akash-node/scripts/init.sh
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ else
     apt -y --no-install-recommends install aria2 lz4 liblz4-tool wget > /dev/null 2>&1
     case "$SNAPSHOT_PROVIDER" in
 
+      "akash")
+        SNAPSHOT_URL="https://snapshots.akash.network/akashnet-2/akashnet-2_latest.tar.lz4"
+        echo "Using default akash blockchain snapshot, $SNAPSHOT_URL"
+        aria2c --out=snapshot.tar.lz4 --summary-interval 15 --check-certificate=false --max-tries=99 --retry-wait=5 --always-resume=true --max-file-not-found=99 --conditional-get=true -s 8 -x 8 -k 1M -j 1 "$SNAPSHOT_URL"
+        lz4 -c -d snapshot.tar.lz4 | tar -x -C "$AKASH_HOME"
+        rm -rf snapshot.tar.lz4
+        ;;
+
       "polkachu")
         SNAPSHOTS_DIR_URL="https://snapshots.polkachu.com/snapshots/"
         USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36"
@@ -61,7 +69,7 @@ else
 
       "c29r3")
         SNAP_NAME=$(curl -s https://snapshots.c29r3.xyz/akash/ | egrep -o ">$AKASH_CHAIN_ID.*tar" | tr -d ">")
-        echo "Using default c29r3.xyz blockchain snapshot, https://snapshots.c29r3.xyz/akash/${SNAP_NAME}"
+        echo "Using c29r3.xyz blockchain snapshot, https://snapshots.c29r3.xyz/akash/${SNAP_NAME}"
         aria2c --out=snapshot.tar --summary-interval 15 --check-certificate=false --max-tries=99 --retry-wait=5 --always-resume=true --max-file-not-found=99 --conditional-get=true -s 8 -x 8 -k 1M -j 1 "https://snapshots.c29r3.xyz/akash/${SNAP_NAME}"
         tar -xf snapshot.tar -C "$AKASH_HOME/data"
         rm -rf snapshot.tar
diff --git a/charts/akash-node/templates/statefulset.yaml b/charts/akash-node/templates/statefulset.yaml
index 19e4a53a..d973aa64 100644
--- a/charts/akash-node/templates/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/charts/akash-node/templates/statefulset.yaml
@@ -110,15 +110,6 @@ spec:
 {{- end }}
             - name: AKASH_API_ENABLE
               value: "{{ .Values.akash_node.api_enable }}"
-          ports:
-            - containerPort: 1317
-              name: akashd-api
-            - containerPort: 9090
-              name: akashd-grpc
-            - containerPort: 26656
-              name: akashd-p2p
-            - containerPort: 26657
-              name: akashd-rpc
           volumeMounts:
             - name: config
               mountPath: /config
diff --git a/charts/akash-node/values.yaml b/charts/akash-node/values.yaml
index 762fec99..1e61f7e8 100644
--- a/charts/akash-node/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/akash-node/values.yaml
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ debug: "false"
 # Defaults to mainnet
 akash_node:
   enabled: true
-  # snapshot_provider can be : "polkachu" (1Gi), "c29r3" (2Gi), or "autostake" (3Gi)
+  # snapshot_provider can be : "akash" (3Gi), "polkachu" (1Gi), "c29r3" (2Gi), or "autostake" (3Gi)
   # Nov/02 2023: disabled polkachu since it is now behind Cloudflare's "Verify you are human" CAPTCHA
   # Nov/14 2023: autostake snapshot is unavailable, fixed polkachu and set as default, fix "c29r3" snapshot provider
   # Aprl/14 2024: peers updated and autostake working again
 
-  snapshot_provider: "polkachu"
+  snapshot_provider: "akash"
   api_enable: false
   moniker: mynode
   chainid: akashnet-2