kaspad

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Kaspad

Kaspad is the reference full node Kaspa implementation written in Go (golang).

This project is currently under active development and is in Beta state.

What is kaspa

Kaspa is an attempt at a proof-of-work cryptocurrency with instant confirmations and sub-second block times. It is based on the PHANTOM protocol, a generalization of Nakamoto consensus.

Requirements

Go 1.18 or later.

Installation

Build from Source

• Install Go according to the installation instructions here: http://golang.org/doc/install

• Ensure Go was installed properly and is a supported version:

$ go version

• Run the following commands to obtain and install kaspad including all dependencies:

$ git clone https://github.com/kaspanet/kaspad
$ cd kaspad
$ go install . ./cmd/...

• Kaspad (and utilities) should now be installed in $(go env GOPATH)/bin. If you did not already add the bin directory to your system path during Go installation, you are encouraged to do so now.

Getting Started

Kaspad has several configuration options available to tweak how it runs, but all of the basic operations work with zero configuration.

$ kaspad

Discord

Join our discord server using the following link: https://discord.gg/YNYnNN5Pf2

Issue Tracker

The integrated github issue tracker is used for this project.

Issue priorities may be seen at https://github.com/orgs/kaspanet/projects/4

Documentation

The documentation is a work-in-progress

License

Kaspad is licensed under the copyfree ISC License.

Documentation

Overview

Copyright (c) 2018-2019 The kaspanet developers Copyright (c) 2013-2018 The btcsuite developers Copyright (c) 2015-2016 The Decred developers Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Conformal Systems LLC. Use of this source code is governed by an ISC license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

Kaspad is a full-node kaspa implementation written in Go.

The default options are sane for most users. This means kaspad will work 'out of the box' for most users. However, there are also a wide variety of flags that can be used to control it.

Usage:

kaspad [OPTIONS]

For an up-to-date help message:

kaspad --help

The long form of all option flags (except -C) can be specified in a configuration file that is automatically parsed when kaspad starts up. By default, the configuration file is located at ~/.kaspad/kaspad.conf on POSIX-style operating systems and %LOCALAPPDATA%\kaspad\kaspad.conf on Windows. The -C (--configfile) flag can be used to override this location.