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Webchaind is a Go language implementation of Webchain, supporting the original blockchain and its philosophy of immutability, censorship-resistance, and resilient distributed applications.
🔭 For general information related to Webchain including:
- whitepaper
- protocol and interface specs
- affiliated APIs
- DAPP development guides
The main Webchain client is called webchaind (the old english third person singular conjugation of "to go". Quite appropriate given webchaind is written in Go. Webchaind is a multipurpose command line tool that runs a full Webchain node. It offers three interfaces:
- the command line subcommands and options,
- a JSON-RPC server, and
- an interactive Javascript console.
Platforms: Supported Platforms are Linux, Mac, and Windows. In order to install Webchaind, please vist our Releases Page. Please consider reviewing our Disclaimer Notice before use.
License: The Webchain Core Protocol licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0. All frontend client software (under cmd) is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
By installing and running webchaind, you can take part in the Webchain live network and
- mine WEB coins
- transfer funds between addresses
- create contracts and send transactions
- explore block history
- and much, much more
Building and testing webchaind requires both Go >=1.8 and a C compiler.
Get set up:
# Go get it! (get it? ;-)
go get github.com/webchain-network/webchaind/...
# Install binary 'webchaind' to $GOPATH/bin:
# Note: You can run this command from $cwd.
# Note: Ensure $GOPATH/bin is added to your $PATH.
go install github.com/webchain-network/webchaind/cmd/webchaind
# Or, install all executables, including webchaind:
go install github.com//webchain-network/webchaind/cmd/...
# check it out!
webchaind --helpSee the Testing Wiki page for information on unit, integration, and external tests.
Webchaind outputs stderr to the console. Output from the console can be logged or redirected:
webchaind 2>>webchaind.log
Additionally, you may can use --log-dir=PATH to specify a directly in which webchaind will write it's logs to a timestamped file.
You can also use webchaind attach to begin a Javascript console session with an already-running instance of webchaind; just use a second terminal.
- If you're integrating another application or service with webchaind:
- Interested in working with some associated packages?
Please browse our FAQ Wiki page to see if there's already an answer to your question. If there isn't, please file an issue or get in touch with us on Slack (#help or #development channels, preferably).
Security issues are best sent to splix@etcdevteam.org, isaac.ardis@gmail.com, or shared in PM with devs on one of the Slack channels.
Non-sensitive bug reports are welcome on Github. Please always state the version (on master) or commit of your build (if on develop), give as much detail as possible about the situation and the anomaly that occurred. Provide logs or stacktrace if you can.