cess.cloud is to provide the capabilities of a new global decentralized cloud data storage network by building with the infrastructure of decentralized cloud data network of the substrate while maintaining the data security and reliability guarantees inherent to blockchain technology. Learn more at white-paper.

Getting Started

Install Guide

Follow Setup to guide you install the CESS development.

Build Node

The cargo run command will perform an initial build. Use the following command to build the node without launching it:

# Fetch the code
git clone https://github.com/CESSProject/cess.git
cd cess

# Build the node (The first build will be long (~30min))
cargo build --release

Run The CESS Node

After the node has finished compiling, you can follow these steps below to run it.

Generate Keys

If you already have keys for Substrate using the SS58 address encoding format, please see the next section.

Begin by compiling and installing the utility (instructions and more info here).

Generate a mnemonic (Secret phrase) and see the sr25519 key and address associated with it.

# subkey command
subkey generate --scheme sr25519

Now see the ed25519 key and address associated with the same mnemonic (secret phrase).

# subkey command
subkey inspect --scheme ed25519 "SECRET PHRASE YOU JUST GENERATED"

We recommend that you record the above outputs and keep mnemonic in safe.

Run Testnet

Launch node on the cess-testnet with:

# start
./target/release/cess-node --base-path /tmp/cess --chain cess-testnet

Then you can add an account with:

# create key file
vim secretKey.txt

# add secret phrase for the node in the file
YOUR ACCOUNT'S SECRET PHRASE

# add key to node
./target/release/cess-node key insert --base-path /tmp/cess --chain cess-testnet --scheme Sr25519  --key-type babe --suri /root/secretKey.txt

./target/release/cess-node key insert --base-path /tmp/cess --chain cess-testnet --scheme Ed25519  --key-type gran --suri /root/secretKey.txt

Now you can launch node again:

# start
./target/release/cess-node --base-path /tmp/cess --chain cess-testnet

Storage Mining

CESS supports to obtain incentives by contributing idle storage with storage mining tool, and click here to learn more.

Run Tests

CESS has Rust unit tests, and can be run locally.

# Run all the Rust unit tests
cargo test --release

Module Documentation

• Files Bank
• Segment Book
• Sminer
• File Map

Contribute

Please follow the contributions guidelines as outlined in docs/CONTRIBUTING.adoc. In all communications and contributions, this project follows the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.

cess-bootstrap

Please download the code of the current latest release

cd cess
#Under the /cess root directory
cargo build --release

Go to the /cess/target/release directory to obtain the cess node file