Configuration

Validator Configuration Specs

Max Candidate Validators:	1000	Session:	6 hours
Max Active Validators:	256	Era:	36 hours
Bonding duration:	72 hours	Reward expiration:	84 eras

Hardware Requirements:

The criteria provided below is the absolute minimal requirement. If user so choose, they can opt for more robust builds to suite their needs. Generally speaking, the more capable the equipment, the better the validators performance and the longer the validators longevity.

CPU

x86-64 compatible; Intel Ice Lake, or newer (Xeon or Core series); AMD Zen3, or newer (EPYC or Ryzen); 4 physical cores @ 3.4GHz; Simultaneous multithreading disabled (Hyper-Threading on Intel, SMT on AMD); Prefer single-threaded performance over higher cores count.

Storage

An NVMe SSD of 1 TB (As it should be reasonably sized to deal with blockchain growth). In general, the latency is more important than the throughput.

Memory

32 GB DDR4 ECC.

System

Linux Kernel 5.16 or newer.

Network

The minimum symmetric networking speed is set to 500 Mbit/s (= 62.5 MB/s).