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 The latest version of the sequence and entity relationship diagrams from the whitepaper can be found in the directory './documentation'.  
 
 # Setup
-Make sure that your node JS version is 16.17.1 because some of the dependencies do not work with newer versions.
+Make sure that your node JS version is 20.12.0 because some of the dependencies do not work with newer versions.
 
 ## Cloning the repository
     git clone --recursive https://github.com/B2E2/b2e2_contracts.git