General

Supported: MacOS (Intel/ARM), Ubuntu (20.04+), Fedora (release), RedHat (release), FreeBSD (release), MS Windows Server 2008R2+

Kaon Validator Node

Self Hosted

	Storage	Storage Type	RAM	CPU, vCore	Network
Minimal	250 Gb	SSD Sata	8 Gb	2x2.5 GHz	22.4 Mbps
Recommended	750 Gb	SSD NVMe	16 Gb ECC	4x3.0 GHz	25 Mbps

Recommended: 8k IOPS, 250MB/S throughput, read latency <1ms.

Additional Requirements:

Static IP
ARM CPU Architecture is supported
ASIC is not supported

Note: Better internet quality results in higher chance for your block to be accepted. It is recommended to host the node in Singapore (Asia Pacific) region.

Cloud Hosted

	AWS	Alibaba Cloud
Minimal Configuration Options	c5n.xlarge + EBS, t3a.x2large	ecs.c4.xlarge
Recommended Configuration Options	c5d.4xlarge	ecs.cm4.xlarge + network traffic

Kaon Validator Node with Embedded Bitcoin Node

Self Hosted

	Storage	CPU, vCore	RAM	Network
Minimum	+300 Gb	+1x2.5 GHz	+8 Gb	+10 Mbps
Recommended	+1 Tb	+2x3.5 GHz	+20 Gb ECC	+31.5 Mpbs

Optimization notes:

-prune is possible with the same constraints that apply to a traditional Bitcoin node
-maxuploadtarget can be reduced to 144MiB per day (it is recommended to not reduce any further than this)
-blocksonly can be utilized