Lava

What is Lava?

Lava is a privacy focused cryptocurrency forked from Zcoin (https://zcoin.io/) that utilizes zero-knowledge proofs which allows users to destroy coins and then redeem them later for brand new ones with no transaction history. Zcoin was the first project to implement the Zerocoin protocol and transitioned to the Sigma protocol which has no trusted setup and small proof sizes. Lava also utilises Dandelion++ to obscure the originating IP of transactions without relying on any external services such as Tor/i2P.

How Lava’s and Zcoin's Privacy Technology Compares to the Competition

read more https://lava.money/lavas-privacy-technology-compares-competition/

Running with Docker

If you are already familiar with Docker, then running Lava with Docker might be the the easier method for you. To run Lava 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 lava-cli utility) to interact with Lava via this method.

Pull our latest official Docker image:

docker pull lavaofficial/lavad

Start Lava daemon:

docker run --detach --name lavad lavaofficial/lavad

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

docker exec lavad lava-cli getblockcount

View connected nodes:

docker exec lavad lava-cli getpeerinfo

Stop daemon:

docker stop lavad

Backup wallet:

docker cp lavad:/home/lavad/.lava/wallet.dat .

Start daemon again:

docker start lavad

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
   

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 libzmq3-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/Lavacoreteam/Lava
   

2. Build Lava-core:

   Configure and build the headless Lava 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.

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