Storage Node

A storage node participates in OMP (Omne Media Protocol) — storing and serving media assets for the network. Storage is an orthogonal capability, not a role — any node (full, validator, or compute) can register as a storage provider.

Start a node for storage duty

Start a full node (or any role) and then register it as a storage provider via RPC:

omne-node start \
  --data-dir ~/.omne/storage \
  --network devnet \
  --bind 0.0.0.0:9948 \
  --p2p-port 30307 \
  --storage rocksdb \
  --bootstrap-peers "/ip4/<GENESIS_IP>/tcp/30303/p2p/<GENESIS_PEER_ID>"

Register as OMP storage provider

After the node syncs, register it:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9948 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "omne_ompRegisterStorageNode",
    "params": [{
      "operator": "<OPERATOR_ADDRESS>",
      "storage_capacity_gb": 500,
      "bond_ogt": 500,
      "supported_formats": ["image", "video", "document"]
    }],
    "id": 1
  }'

Registration parameters

Verify registration

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:9948 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"omne_ompStorageStatus","params":[],"id":1}' | jq

Storage as a capability layer

Storage is not a role — it’s an add-on. This means:

Bond requirements

Use cases

• Media hosting — store and serve images, videos, and documents for dApps
• Content delivery — distribute media assets across multiple storage nodes for availability
• Archival storage — long-term retention of media referenced by on-chain transactions