Node structure

Full Nodes Functions

• Stores the full blockchain history on disk and can answer the data request from the network.

• Receives and validates the new blocks and transactions.

• Verifies the states of every account.

Supported Platforms

• We support running a full node on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.

Suggested Requirements

• VPS running recent versions of Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows.

• IMPORTANT 1 TB of free disk space, solid-state drive(SSD), gp3, 8k IOPS, 250 MB/S throughput, read latency <1ms. (if node is started with snap sync, it will need NVMe SSD)

• 16 cores of CPU and 16 GB of memory (RAM)

• Suggest m5zn.3xlarge instance type on AWS, c2-standard-16 on Google cloud.

• A broadband Internet connection with upload/download speeds of 25 MB/S

Steps to Run a Full Node

• Sync From Snapshot (Recommended)

• Download the pre-build binaries from the release page or follow the instructions below