Maximum of 5
Your VDA tokens will be released to your wallet once the Foundational Node Operators go live on Mainnet.
Yes, you will need to meet specific operational benchmarks to qualify to operate a Mainnet Node.
A small Verida node can run on a VM with as little as 2GB of RAM and a single core. This is sufficient for light casual use by a few hundred users.
The most important consideration in determining hardware requirements is the number of user operations per-second the node will support.
Verida Mainnet storage nodes are 4 core 8 GB VMs.
At network launch, the data stored per application is limited. We recommend 4MB per user.
We have not yet validated all components on ARM servers. Please discuss on Discord if you are interested in trying this.