Hardware requirements

Minimum XN requirements​

There is no strict minimum amount of XN required to run a validator on X1.

Hardware Recommendations

The hardware recommendations below are provided as a guide. Operators are encouraged to do their own performance testing.

• CPU

  • 12 cores / 24 threads, or more

  • 3GHz base clock speed, or faster

• RAM

  • 128GB or more

• DISK

  • 4TB NVME

Server needs to be bare metal dedicated, not VPS.

Example: https://www.interserver.net/dedicated/amd-ryzen-7900x

Hardware specifications can and most likely will change over time. Server costs will increase as the chain gets more adoption.