Barriers

However, there are some barriers that prevent just anyone from running their own nodes.

Infrastructure

Nodes require servers with specific configurations and resources that can become inaccessible to the majority. When the nodes are AI-based, this intensifies even more because, in addition to validating the project, the nodes play an important role in processing AI models, which are nothing more than huge mathematical models that require powerful CPUs, GPUs, and RAM.

Time and dedication

Each node has its own configuration and maintenance requirements; therefore, nodes and projects need constant monitoring and up-to-date technical knowledge in servers, cloud computing, and web3 protocols.

Scalability

Establishing large operations with multiple nodes from various projects, turn challenges previously mentioned not only intensify by making the infrastructure costly and more difficult to manage.

Furthermore, the time consumption scales even more intensely, and availability issues arise when there's a need to run too many different software applications, each with its own hardware requirements and needs to still be able to add more nodes at any moment.

This complexity makes it humanly impossible to manage these operations manually.