System Requirements

These are the minimum and recommended system requirements for running a validator/RPC node. It is likely, that the nodes will not require as much resources at the beginning of the chain, but we still highly recommend to follow the recommended specifications. This will allow for future growth and scalability.

Consensus state can live on a lower performance volume (for example, EBS), but execution state needs NVMe storage. If you want to separate them, use --datadir for execution data and --consensus.datadir for consensus data.

RPC Node

Validator Node

Cloud provider recommendations

These dedicated servers meet or exceed the recommended specs for both RPC and validator nodes:

Security measures

We do not recommend using a cloud firewall / NAT gateway as it can introduce additional complexity and performance issues. Instead, we've implemented security measures in the networking layer of the node, including:

• only accepting connections from trusted IP addresses (active validators on-chain)
• ratelimiting connections and messages in consensus and execution to prevent abuse
• only accepting consensus connections from validators that can prove their identity

Ports