Devcon 8 India 2026: Bare Metal for Ethereum Nodes

Devcon, the Ethereum Foundation's conference for developers, researchers and builders, comes to the Jio World Centre in Mumbai from 3 to 6 November 2026, and velia.net will be there. A network that calls itself decentralised is only as independent as the hardware under it.

A node on a shared host inherits its neighbours' bad days. The missed attestation never shows up on the invoice, it shows up in the rewards. That is a hardware conversation, and it is the one we come to Mumbai to have.

Networking and Innovation

Our specialists are looking forward to discussing what node operators actually hit when a workload that must never pause runs next to workloads nobody told them about. We believe personal exchange with the engineers who run the clients is the fastest way to keep our hardware roadmap honest.

• Connect with our infrastructure specialists about validator, RPC and archive node hardware.
• Discuss bespoke bare metal configurations sized for sustained disk and network load.
• Explore what one physical machine with no other customer on it changes for consistency.
• Exchange views on running nodes across Frankfurt, Strasbourg, New York, Miami, St. Louis and Singapore under one operator.

Key Points of our Attendance

As we explore infrastructure for Ethereum, we will focus on the following themes:

• Deep dives into why the worst minute matters more than the average one.
• Networking with client teams, staking operators and rollup builders.
• Gathering impulses on dedicated servers with no hypervisor between the workload and the metal.
• Analyzing what monthly terms and zero setup fee change for teams that scale node fleets up and down.

Future-proof infrastructure at the core of Ethereum

Stay tuned for our updates directly from the floor in Mumbai. If you are also at Devcon, let us grab a coffee and talk shop. You can find more updates on our LinkedIn profile.