diff --git a/activation_service_poc/config.standalone.client2.json b/activation_service_poc/config.standalone.client2.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 9988c0789b..0000000000
--- a/activation_service_poc/config.standalone.client2.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "preset": "standalone",
-    "api": {
-        "grpc-public-listener": "0.0.0.0:9082",
-        "grpc-private-listener": "0.0.0.0:9083"
-    },
-    "genesis": {
-        "genesis-time": "2024-09-25T13:00:00.000Z"
-    },
-    "logging": {
-        "trtl": "WARN",
-        "beacon": "ERROR",
-        "proposalBuilder": "DEBUG",
-        "atxBuilder": "ERROR",
-        "hare": "ERROR"
-    },
-    "main": {
-        "node-service-address": "http://0.0.0.0:9099",
-        "data-folder": "/tmp/spacemesh-client2",
-        "filelock": "/tmp/spacemesh-client2/node.lock",
-        "poet-servers": [
-            {
-                "address": "http://127.0.0.1:10011"
-            }
-        ]
-    },
-    "smeshing": {
-        "smeshing-opts": {
-            "smeshing-opts-datadir": "/tmp/spacemesh-client2/post-data"
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/activation_service_poc/start.sh b/activation_service_poc/start.sh
index 9b80184e3a..c5e7209221 100755
--- a/activation_service_poc/start.sh
+++ b/activation_service_poc/start.sh
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ cd activation_service_poc
 export IMAGE=$(docker images | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $3}')
 
 TIME=$(date -u -d '2 minutes' "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%:z")
-jq ".genesis.\"genesis-time\" |= \"$TIME\"" config.standalone.client.json
-jq ".genesis.\"genesis-time\" |= \"$TIME\"" config.standalone.node-service.json
+jq ".genesis.\"genesis-time\" |= \"$TIME\"" config.standalone.client.json > config.standalone.client.json
+jq ".genesis.\"genesis-time\" |= \"$TIME\"" config.standalone.node-service.json > config.standalone.node-service.json
 
 rm -rf /tmp/space*
 docker compose up