Installation

1. Install Go by following the official docs.

Go version must be 1.13+.

2. Install ahchain binaries:

git clone https://github.com/ahmedaly113/ahchain.git
cd ahchain && git checkout master
make install

This creates:

ahchaind: ahmedaly113 blockchain daemon

ahchaincli: ahmedaly113 blockchain client. Used for creating keys and lightweight interaction with the chain and underlying Tendermint node.

Getting Started

Run a single node

# Build the binaries
make build

# Create a wallet and save the mnemonic and passphrase
make create-wallet

# Initialize configuration files and genesis file
# Enter passphrase from above
make init

# Start the chain
make start

Run a local 4-node testnet

A 4-node local testnet can be created with Docker Compose.

NOTE: You will not be able to register accounts because each node won't have a registrar key setup. This restriction will go away after client-side signing.

# Build daemon for linux so it can run inside a Docker container
make build-linux

# Create 4-nodes with their own genesis files and configuration
make localnet-start

Go to each config file in build/nodeN/ahchaind/config/config.toml and replace these:

laddr = "tcp://0.0.0.0:26657"
addr_book_strict = false

# stop and restart
make localnet-stop && make localnet-start

# Tail logs
docker-compose logs -f

Run a full node

ahchain can be run as a full node, syncing it's state with another node or validator. First follow the instructions above to install and setup a single node.

# Initialize another chain with a new moniker but same chain-id
ahchaind init <moniker-2> --chain-id betanet-1 --home ~/.devnet

# Copy the genesis file from the first node
scp ubuntu@devnet:/home/ubuntu/.ahchaind/config/genesis.json ~/.devnet/config/

# Get the node id of the first node
ahchaincli status

# Add first node to `persistent_peers` in config.toml
sed -i -e 's/persistent_peers.*/persistent_peers = "[ip_address]:26656"/' ~/.devnet/config/config.toml

# Optional: Add verbose logging
sed -i -e 's/log_level.*/log_level = "main:info,state:info,*:error,app:info,account:info,trubank:info,claim:info,community:info,truslashing:info,trustaking:info"/' ~/.devnet/config/config.toml

# Start the node
ahchaind start --home ~/.devnet

If the first node has many blocks, it could take several minutes for the first sync to complete. Now you will have two nodes running in lockstep!

Testing

# Run linter
make check

# Run tests
make test