There are various ways to support a blockchain protocol. For example, tech-savvy users sometimes prefer to run nodes. Now, if you are planning to do so, specific hardware and software prerequisites must be in place. In this 4-part series, I will discuss them in detail for running nodes on Oasis. The first part covers hardware and cloud providers.

Hardware Requirements

As outlined in the introduction to Oasis nodes , the protocol consists of several distinct node types.

Consensus validator or non-validator node

Sapphire compute or client node

Emerald compute or client node

Cipher compute or client node

In this section, I will focus on the minimum and recommended system hardware requirements. Anyone planning to run more than one paratime (Sapphire/Emerald/Cipher) on a single node will need more resources.

If you configure a system with fewer resources than recommended, you run the risk of being under-provisioned. This can cause proposer node timeouts and synchronization delays.…