Technical Requirements

Setup and Hardware

Validators can choose to run their systems in the cloud or in a dedicated data center. It needs to be pointed out that if running your validators in the cloud you are risking exposure of your private keys.

There is a spectrum of different choices that can be made in the name of security. The most secure is a complex arrangement where the validator sits in a data center with some sort of KMS hardware key management system and has one or more sentries sitting in the cloud, with an elaborate setup of private VPN’s and firewalls.

Validator and Sentry Node Requirements

Bluzelle requires validators to have both a validator node and sentry node.

Validator Node	Sentry Node
I3EN Large 16 GB RAM 2 vCPU’s 25 Gigabit Network Connection 1 TB Storage	M5AD Extra Large 16 GB RAM 4 vCPU’s 10 Gigabit Network Connection 125 GB Storage