Hardware Requirements

The following guide will walk you through the steps of how to run an Initia node and optionally to join the Initia network as a validator.

This guide has been tested agains Linux distributions only. While it might be possible to run an Initia node on other operating systems, the process is not as straightforward and may require additional configuration.

Hardware Requirements

We recommend the following hardware configurations for running and Initia node:

Network	CPU	Memory	Disk	Bandwidth
Testnet (initiation-2)	16 cores	32GB RAM	2TB NVMe SSD, 1000 MiBps IOPS	1000Mbps

Dependencies

Install Go (v1.22)

The Initia node is built using Go, a performant, easy-to-learn, and expressive programming language that is widely used in distributed systems.

To install Go, follow the instructions on the Go website.

To verify your installation, run the following command in your terminal

go version