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# Blockchain Components

Guide to setup complete block chain network.

### Overview

Basically there are mainly 2 components to start the blockchain that are as follows:

* Sharders
* Miners

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Before starting with sharders and miners there are some essential configurations that are needed by sharders and miners that are as follows:

#### For sharder

* Unique operational wallet key for sharder.
* Magicblock.json config file.
* initial-state.yaml config file.
* nodes.yaml config file.

#### For miner

* Unique operational wallet key for miner.
* Magicblock config file.
* initial-state config file.
* nodes.yaml config file.
* dkg config file

Minimum smaller network can be with 1 Sharder and 3 miners. The smallest network we deploy for developers is with 2 sharders and 3 miners. \
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In the next page will have an overview on how to generate these config files wrt 2 sharders and 3 miners.