Requirements

Definitions

• Delegate - A node that has delegated stake and participates in extending the ledger through consensus.
• Historical - A node that keeps many epochs worth of data possibly back to the genesis.
• Interface - A node that primarily provides remote and notification services.

Minimum Delegate Credits

To operate a Delegate you must have at least 8,0000 credits in your stake account and delegated to it's identity. Delegates do not support more than one delegation in order to promote decentralization.

Hardware

Component	Mimimum	Preferred
CPU	12 Cores 24 Threads	16 Cores 32 Threads
RAM	64 GB	128 GB ECC
Storage	Enterprise PCIe NVME	Enterprise PCIe NVME
Network	1 Gbps symmetric, commercial grade	10 Gbps symmetric, commercial grade

CPU

Name	Cores	Threads	Base Clock	L3 Cache	Default TDP
AMD EPYC 4585PX	16	32	4.3 GHz	128 MB	170W
AMD EPYC 4565P	16	32	4.3 GHz	64 MB	170W
AMD EPYC 4584PX	16	32	4.2 GHz	128 MB	120W
AMD EPYC 4564P	16	32	4.5 GHz	64 MB	170W
AMD EPYC 4484PX	12	24	4.4 GHz	128 MB	120W
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X	16	32	4.5 GHz	64 MB	170W
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D	16	32	4.2 GHz	128 MB	120W
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D	16	32	4.3 GHz	128 MB	170W
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X	16	32	4.3 GHz	64 MB	170W
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X	12	24	4.4 GHz	64 MB	120W

Storage

Delegate nodes SHOULD use 3 physical NVMe drives. The recommended configuration is as follows:

/
├── users/
│   └── radium/
│       └── .radium/
│           └── data/
│               └── {deployment}/
|                   ├── snapshots
│                   ├── config
│                   └── store/
│                       ├── network
│                       └── cache
│
└── mnt/
    │
    ├── epochs/
    │   └── .radium/
    │       └── data/
    │           └── {deployment}/
    │               └── store/
    │                   └── epochs
    │
    └── ledger/
        └── .radium/
            └── data/
                └── {deployment}/
                    └── store/
                        └── ledger

Path Summary

• User data: /users/radium/.radium/data/{deployment}/
  • Configuration
  • Snapshots
  • Network and Cache
• External mounts: /mnt/
  • Epochs storage
  • Ledger storage

Software

• Ubuntu 24
• Debian 12

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Virtual Machines are not supported.