# Node requirements

### Hardware requirements

* 500-1000 GB of SSD storage
* 4-8 CPU cores
* 8-16 GB of RAM
* Internet connection with upload/download speeds of at least 10 megabit

### Software requirements

* An operating system capable of compiling and running Go 1.16 code or Docker images
* A private Binance Smart Chain testnet node
  * A private node is needed, because we rely on node operators having as little latency to the node as possible. While using a public/rented node is possible, we strongly suggest against it, as it may cause issues with response times and potentially cause transactions to be lost because of nonce race condition.
* (Optional) A Prometheus + Grafana monitoring stack