Requirements

System Requirements

Metadium's BP nodes require the following recommended and minimum hardware resources to keep the network stable.

Recommended specifications

• vCPU: 16 core

• RAM: 64 GB

• Storage: At least 1TB SSD

• OS: Linux-based operating system

Minimum specifications

Firewall Requirements

Metadium BP nodes require the following firewall settings to receive blocks from the chain network and propagate new transactions to the network:

Outbound

SRC	DST	PROTO	PORT	DESC
BP	BP	TCP	8589	P2P
BP	BP	TCP	8590	etcd

Inbound

SRC	DST	PROTO	PORT	DESC
BP	BP	TCP	8589	P2P
BP	BP	TCP	8590	etcd
BN	BP	TCP	8589	P2P

BP nodes need to establish peer connections with other BP nodes in the network and with Bridge Nodes (BN)