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Validator Hardware Requirements

Minimum KOII Requirements​

There is no minimum amount of KOII required to stake and participate in the voting process.

To participate in the voting process you must configure your system, start a validator, and configure your voting and stake accounts. This guide will show you how to do this.

Minimum hardware requirements​

Here are the minimum hardware requirements for running a K2 validator or RPC node:

For consensus validators​

  • Memory: 256 GB
  • Compute: 12 cores / 24 threads @ minimum of 2.8GHz
  • Storage:
    • PCIe Gen3 x4 NVME SSD
    • Accounts: 500GB. High TBW (Total Bytes Written)
    • Ledger: 1TB. High TBW suggested
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (We do provide binaries for other operating systems however the operation of these binaries is not guaranteed.)
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Accounts and the ledger can be stored on the same disk, however due to high IOPS, this is not recommended

For RPC nodes​

  • Memory: 512 GB
  • Compute: 16 cores / 32 threads
  • Storage:
    • PCIe Gen3 x4 NVME SSD
    • Accounts: 500GB. High TBW (Total Bytes Written)
    • Ledger: 1TB. High TBW suggested
    • A larger ledger disk if longer transaction history is required
    • Accounts and ledger should not be stored on the same disk
    • GPUs are not strictly necessary
  • Network: 1 Gbps uplink and downlink speed, must be unshaped and unmetered
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Once a properly sized Ubuntu 20.04 system is available we can begin to configure the system for operation of a validator node.