Index

What is Index Chain?

Index Chain is designed from the ground up with a singular focal point: Privacy.

Utilizing privacy protocols informed by industry experts to create cryptosystems specifically designed to facilitate anonymous transactions! It is powered by the Sigma privacy protocol, based on the academic paper One-Out-Of-Many-Proofs: Or How to Leak a Secret and Spend a Coin (Jens Groth and Markulf Kohlweiss). It replaces the RSA accumulators through Pedersen commitments and eliminates the need for a trusted setup.

Why Index?

INDEX CHAIN is designed for user privacy, shielding transactions with anonymous designations while deploying industry leading encryption methods. Index Chain is a complete solution, providing users with a fully private, secure, fast and decentralized solution. Protect your assets and remove banks from the equation. Avoid paying large sums with truly private transactions! You do not have to fear about the blockage of your financial capabilities based on the whims of some power-hungry managers. Index Chain will allow you to become your own bank. You can spend your money safely and privately without leaving a trail of documents marking every step in your life.

Who are we?

We are a community dedicated to privacy. Comprised of consummate professionals with a passion for privacy, our goal is eschewing the age of bank control over personal financial situation and to establish the power of choice. INDEX is the ultimate solution, providing financial freedom coupled with opportunity.

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If you are already familiar with Docker, then running Index with Docker might be the the easier method for you. To run Index using this method, first install Docker. After this you may continue with the following instructions.

Please note that we currently don't support the GUI when running with Docker. Therefore, you can only use RPC (via HTTP or the index-cli utility) to interact with Index via this method.

Pull our latest official Docker image:

docker pull IndexChain/Indexd

Start Index daemon:

docker run --detach --name indexd IndexChain/Indexd

View current block count (this might take a while since the daemon needs to find other nodes and download blocks first):

docker exec indexd index-cli getblockcount

View connected nodes:

docker exec indexd index-cli getpeerinfo

Stop daemon:

docker stop indexd

Backup wallet:

docker cp indexd:/home/indexd/.index/wallet.dat .

Start daemon again:

docker start indexd

Linux Build Instructions and Notes

Dependencies

1. Update packages

   sudo apt-get update
   

2. Install required packages

   sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils libboost-all-dev libzmq3-dev libminizip-dev
   

3. Install Berkeley DB 4.8

   sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
   

4. Install QT 5

   sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev
   sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev
   

Build

1. Clone the source:

   git clone https://github.com/IndexChain/Index
   

2. Build Index-core:

   Configure and build the headless Index binaries as well as the GUI (if Qt is found).

   You can disable the GUI build by passing --without-gui to configure.

   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure
   make
   

3. It is recommended to build and run the unit tests:

   make check
   

macOS Build Instructions and Notes

See (doc/build-macos.md) for instructions on building on macOS.

Windows (64/32 bit) Build Instructions and Notes

See (doc/build-windows.md) for instructions on building on Windows 64/32 bit.