What are the requirements for nodes to join?
Now that you have familiarized yourself with what OMNIA can do, it is time to learn how to join and connect your nodes through OMNIA protocol.
Technical clarification
OMNIA is NOT a layer-1 solution. Instead, layer-1 build on top of OMNIA.
Omnia is not a separated chain but rather an infrastructure solution: We leverage the existing layer-1 (or layer-2) solutions and provide a middleware that enables existing nodes (e.g., BTC, ETH, other chains) to have additional incentives by allowing others to make requests to those nodes.
What does OMNIA do?
OMNIA allows onboarding and rewarding existing nodes such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, Binance Smart Chain, etc. Blockchain applications send requests that go through a decentralized protocol to the existing nodes that have joined OMNIA ecosystem and, at the same time, protect the metadata or users personal information before reaching those nodes.
In short, OMNIA creates a solution that allows anyone to host nodes on their PCs (or cloud) with improved security and privacy. OMNIA rewards them according to their node performance.
How to set up nodes?
Currently, OMNIA Protocol supports three networks, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (now BNB Chain), and more coming soon. Please follow the official instruction of each network to set up your preferred node:
- For Bitcoin: Running A Full Node
- For Ethereum: Spin up your own Ethereum node or A Guide for the Barely Motivated
- For BSC (Now BNB Chain): How to Run A Full Node on Binance Smart Chain
Minimum hardware requirements
For Bitcoin
Bitcoin Core full nodes have specific requirements. If you try running a node on weak hardware, it may work — but you’ll likely spend more time dealing with issues. On the other hand, you’ll have an easy-to-use node if you can meet the following requirements.
- Desktop or laptop hardware running latest versions of Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.
- Hard disk accessible at a minimum read/write speed of 100 MB/s.
- 2 GB of memory (RAM)
- A broadband Internet connection with upload speeds of at least 50KB/s
- An unmetered connection, a connection with high upload limits, or a connection you regularly monitor to ensure it doesn’t exceed its upload limits. It’s common for full nodes on high-speed connections to use 200 GB upload or more a month. Download usage is around 20 GB a month, plus around 340 GB the first time you start your node.
For Ethereum
Before installing any client, please ensure your computer has enough resources to run it. Minimum and recommended requirements can be found below; however, the critical part is the disk space. Syncing the Ethereum blockchain is very input/output intensive. Therefore, it is best to have a solid-state drive (SSD). To run an Ethereum client on HDD, you will need at least 8GB of RAM to use as a cache.
Minimum requirements
- CPU with 2+ cores
- 4 GB RAM minimum with an SSD, 8 GB+ if you have an HDD
- 8 MBit/s bandwidth
Recommended specifications
- Fast CPU with 4+ cores
- 16 GB+ RAM
- Fast SSD with at least 500 GB free space
- 25+ MBit/s bandwidth
You can use any consumer laptop or desktop PC to run Ethereum clients, but the best method is to use a dedicated system. The easiest options are preconfigured machines like:
You can also opt for the mid-tier DAppNodeBasic (~$640 with free shipping) or the Avado i3 ($735 with free shipping). Either one includes absolutely everything you need — just plug it in and follow the setup instructions.
If you are more comfortable meddling with unconfigured hardware, then Raspberry Pi is a great option. Grégoire Jeanmart wrote this excellent step by step guide to running a Geth full node on a Raspberry Pi. NanoPC is also a nice option with a slightly more powerful system configuration.
If you have a spare desktop PC with 512GB SSD, then you can easily set up Ethereum clients however you want.
Binance Smart Chain (Now BNB Smart Chain)
Running a full BSC node requires significantly more resources than running a Bitcoin or Ethereum node. So you will need a beefy machine. Especially the disks need to be fast, so NVME drives are recommended.
To run a BSC Fullnode, you will need:
- VPS or PC running recent versions of Mac OS X or Linux.
- 2T GB of free disk space, solid-state drive(SSD), gp3, 8k IOPS, 250MB/S throughput, read latency <1ms. (if start with snap/fast sync, it will need NVMe SSD)
- 16 cores of CPU and 64 GB of RAM
- For cloud its recommended m5zn.3xlarge instance type on AWS, c2-standard-16 on Google cloud.
- A broadband Internet connection with upload/download speeds of 5 megabyte per second
To become a validator:
- VPS running recent versions of Mac OS X or Linux.
- 2T GB of free disk space, solid-state drive(SSD), gp3, 8k IOPS, 250MB/S throughput, read latency <1ms
- 16 cores of CPU and 64 GB of memory (RAM)
- Suggest m5zn.3xlarge instance type on AWS, or c2-standard-16 on Google cloud.
- A broadband Internet connection with upload/download speeds of 10 megabyte per second
Also, check out this article as it sums up everything you need to run a full node with Geth (BSC).
Join OMNIA waitlist
If you run or plan to run blockchain to earn rewards, please go and register on the waiting list here. When blockchain node registration is open, we will notify you.
In the future, we will cooperate with cloud providers (i.e., community-sponsored nodes) so that people can deploy a node in the cloud with just a few clicks.
About OMNIA Protocol
By foreseeing the state of the current blockchain application network, we have committed to preparing, researching, and applying our technical expertise to our latest project, Omnia.
Omnia Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure protocol for securely accessing the blockchain so that no single point of failure will ever disrupt blockchain applications or wallets integrating with it.
Omnia’s solution is truly decentralized and requires zero technical knowledge. Therefore, all users can set up their nodes in little time and effort. Learn more about the technological marvel behind Omnia by following our Medium or reading our whitepaper.
