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Compile and Run without Container

To Share and +4 nLEARNs Login with NEARThis doc is written for developers, sysadmins, DevOps, or curious people who want to know how to compile and run a regular NEAR validator node natively (without containerization) for one of the following networks: localnet testnet mainnet Prerequisites Rust. If not already installed, please follow these instructions. Git …

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Hardware Requirements for RPC Node

To Share and +4 nLEARNs Login with NEARThis page covers the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for engaging with the NEAR platform as a RPC node. For testing your RPC once the node is fully sync’d, see this example RPC request. Recommended Hardware Specifications Hardware Recommended Specifications CPU 8-Core (16-Thread) Intel i7/Xeon or equivalent with …

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Run an RPC Node with nearup

To Share and +4 nLEARNs Login with NEAR Heads up The README for `nearup` (linked above) may be **all you need to get a node up and running** in `testnet` and `localnet`. `nearup` is exclusively used to launch NEAR `testnet` and `localnet` nodes. `nearup` is not used to launch `mainnet` nodes. Prerequisites Git Nearup: Make …

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Node Maintenance

To Share and +4 nLEARNs Login with NEARUpdating a Node As a decentralized network, every update to NEAR Protocol needs some coordination between end users, platforms, developers, and validators. nearup provides scripts to launch NEAR Protocol testnet and betanet nodes. Unless it is executed with the switch –binary-path, nearup will automatically update the local binaries …

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What is a Node

To Share and +4 nLEARNs Login with NEARNEAR Protocol runs on a collection of publicly maintained computers (or "nodes"). All nodes are running the same nearcore codebase with the latest releases available on Github. In the following section, we will introduce three types of nodes. It is important to keep in mind all nodes run …

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Node Types

To Share and +4 nLEARNs Login with NEARYou can run three different types of node – Validator Node, RPC Node, and Archival Node. Validator Node Validator nodes are the operators of the NEAR blockchain and are essential to the health of the network. Validator nodes participate in the consensus and produce blocks and/or chunks. You …

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