Hello ThreeFold community,
The main marketplace functionality is built, and we demonstrated it on the community call.
The remaining piece is billing integration. Once that lands, the marketplace moves from something we demonstrate to something you transact on.
You do not have to wait to start, though. The technology underneath already manages infrastructure from the bare metal layer upward and can be used for hosting and testing today. If you are a capacity provider and want to start preparing or testing your infrastructure, tell us and we will help you get set up.
Hardware requirements for farmers
We are finalising standard hardware requirements for supported farmers, covering network switching, remotely manageable power, infrastructure setup, and monitoring and remote recovery.
The goal is infrastructure that is reliable, remotely manageable, easy to monitor and practical to support at scale.
None of this is a requirement yet. Before it becomes one we will publish the recommended models, the expected costs and a transition plan for existing nodes, and we will go through all of it with farmers in a dedicated working session first.
We will go over that topic during the community call, please join and bring your questions, the team will be here to answer directly!
Community call link for Thursday 17th will be shared on the Telegram News channel.
The ThreeFold Team