This is the Official Golang implementation of the Okchain protocol.

Okchain is a private, secure, decentralised digital currency.

Privacy: Okchain uses a cryptographically sound system to allow you to send and receive funds without your transactions being easily revealed on the blockchain (the ledger of transactions that everyone has). This ensures that your purchases, receipts, and all transfers remain absolutely private by default.

Security: Using the power of a distributed peer-to-peer consensus network, every transaction on the network is cryptographically secured. Individual wallets have a 25 word mnemonic seed that is only displayed once, and can be written down to backup the wallet. Wallet files are encrypted with a passphrase to ensure they are useless if stolen.

This is the core implementation of Okchain. It is open source and completely free to use without restrictions, except for those specified in the license agreement below. There are no restrictions on anyone creating an alternative implementation of Okchain that uses the protocol and network in a compatible manner.

As with many development projects, the repository on Github is considered to be the "staging" area for the latest changes. Before changes are merged into that branch on the main repository, they are tested by individual developers in their own branches, submitted as a pull request, and then subsequently tested by contributors who focus on testing and code reviews. That having been said, the repository should be carefully considered before using it in a production environment, unless there is a patch in the repository for a particular show-stopping issue you are experiencing. It is generally a better idea to use a tagged release for stability.

• Sharding, including network and transaction sharding
• PoW or VRSF for joining the network
• New BLS-pbft consensus mechanism
• Coinbase rewards
• Ecc-p256 signature and public address
• Supporting ethereum smart contracts
• Gossip protocol
• Node recovery mechanism

• State sharding
• Support WASM-based smart contracts
• More Operating System supported
• More exciting features.

The following table summarizes the tools and libraries required to build. A few of the libraries are also included in this repository (marked as "Vendored"). By default, the build uses the library installed on the system, and ignores the vendored sources. However, if no library is found installed on the system, then the vendored source will be built and used. The vendored sources are also used for statically-linked builds because distribution packages often include only shared library binaries (.so) but not static library archives (.a).

First, prepare the Go compiler:

brew install go

Then, clone the okchain repository to a specified directory:

git clone https://github.com/ok-chain/okchain

Finally, build the okchaind and okchaincli program using the following command.

cd okchain
make

Note: okchaind is the okchain node, which is to produce blocks and join the consensus process, etc. And okchaincli is a command-line tool to interacte with the okchaind.

The build places the binary in bin/ sub-directory within the build directory from which cmake was invoked (repository root by default). To run in foreground:

./bin/okchaind

To run in background:

./bin/okchaind --detach

• Docker quick start

    docker run -d --name okchain/testnet-okchaind -v /okchain/chain:/root/.okchain \
            -p 15000:15000 -p 16000:16000  -p 25000:25000 \
            okchaind
  

• Startup a local testnet

    cd go-okchain/wkdir/docker
    docker-compose up -d
  

Instructions for debugging suspected blockchain corruption as per

There is an mdb_stat command in the RocksDB source that can print statistics about the database but it's not routinely built. This can be built with the following command:

cd ~/okchain/external/db_drivers/liblmdb && make

The output of mdb_stat -ea <path to blockchain dir> will indicate inconsistencies in the blocks, block_heights and block_info table.

The output of mdb_dump -s blocks <path to blockchain dir> and mdb_dump -s block_info <path to blockchain dir> is useful for indicating whether blocks and block_info contain the same keys.

These records are dumped as hex data, where the first line is the key and the second line is the data.

• Web: okcoin.com/chain
• Forum: forum.okchain.org
• Mail: dev@okcoin.com
• GitHub: https://github.com/ok-chain/okchain

Anyone is welcome to contribute to Okchain's codebase! If you have a fix or code change, feel free to submit it as a pull request directly to the "master" branch. In cases where the change is relatively small or does not affect other parts of the codebase it may be merged in immediately by any one of the collaborators. On the other hand, if the change is particularly large or complex, it is expected that it will be discussed at length either well in advance of the pull request being submitted, or even directly on the pull request.

If you want to help out, see CONTRIBUTING for a set of guidelines.

Packaging for your favorite distribution would be a welcome contribution!

Copyright (c) 2018-2019 The Okchain Project.
More details, See LICENSE.