Cutcoin Project unites privacy focused digital currency, private tokens and bunch of basic instruments to handle them. The coin uses Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus, and that means less electricity consumption and eco-friendliness. Cutcoin belongs to CryptoNote family and it's the first coin among others that combines exceptional privacy, PoS consensus and tokens support.
Cutcoin is an open source software, see the full license text here.
Copyright (c) 2018-2021 CUT coin.
Copyright (c) 2014-2017 The Monero Project.
Portions Copyright (c) 2012-2013 The Cryptonote developers.
- Development resources
- Research
- Translations
- Introduction
- About this project
- Supporting the project
- Contributing
- Release staging schedule and protocol
- Compiling Cutcoin from source
- Internationalization
- Debugging
- Web: cutcoin.org
- Forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5087550.msg48784779#msg48784779
- Mail: info@cutcoin.org
- GitHub: https://github.com/cutcoin
- Documentation: https://github.com/cutcoin/documentation
Cutcoin Team has a solid conviction that the further advances in CryptoNote protocol development should be based on research work. We do our own researches and utilize results that presented in respectable scientific sources. If you have great ideas of how to make CryptoNote more reliable, secure and fast please contact us info@cutcoin.org.
CUTcoin (Concealed Untraceable Transactions) is the coin that establishes a new level of privacy and usability. Cutcoin transactions keep in secret transferred amounts of funds, untracable and unlinkable. Users don't reveal their addresses and share one-time addresses instead. PoS consensus algorithm reduces power consumption and lets block pass (on average) in more predictable periods of time. This allows to increase Transaction per Second (TPS) rate if required.
PoS algorithm don't reveal any user's data except for amount of the output that subscribes a block. The output is spent during this process in special staking transaction, this helps keep overall privacy and generate constant flow of the fresh unspent outputs.
CryptoNote Tokens (CNT-1) implemented in Cutcoin is the extension of CryptoNote protocol that allows creating and manipulating named tokens. Tokens are very similar to the coin itself, and that's one of their advantages: well known and time proved protocol that guarantees reliable privacy and security. The only place where the information about tokens is stored is the Cutcoin blockchain, and this means no additional centralization were brought.
CNT-1 is extremely exciting as provides first known realization of private tokens. Tokens can be created, owned or transferred via common Cutcoin transaction. This give them all privacy features intrinsic to Cutcoin itself.
If you want to help out, see CONTRIBUTING for a set of guidelines. Our community's help is appreciated much and the most active members become official Cutcoin Ambassadors, that gives different benefits.
The following table summarizes the tools and libraries required to build the sources.
A few of the libraries are also included in this repository (marked as "Vendored").
By default, the build uses the library installed on the system, and ignores
the vendored sources. However, if no library is found installed on
the system, then the vendored source will be built and used. The vendored
sources are also used for statically-linked builds because distribution
packages often include only shared library binaries (.so
) but not static
library archives (.a
).
Dep | Min. version | Vendored | Debian/Ubuntu pkg | Arch pkg | Fedora | Optional | Purpose |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GCC | 4.7.3 | NO | build-essential |
base-devel |
gcc |
NO | |
CMake | 3.5 | NO | cmake |
cmake |
cmake |
NO | |
pkg-config | any | NO | pkg-config |
base-devel |
pkgconf |
NO | |
Boost | 1.58 | NO | libboost-all-dev |
boost |
boost-devel |
NO | C++ libraries |
OpenSSL | basically any | NO | libssl-dev |
openssl |
openssl-devel |
NO | sha256 sum |
libzmq | 3.0.0 | NO | libzmq3-dev |
zeromq |
cppzmq-devel |
NO | ZeroMQ library |
OpenPGM | ? | NO | libpgm-dev |
libpgm |
openpgm-devel |
NO | For ZeroMQ |
libunbound | 1.4.16 | YES | libunbound-dev |
unbound |
unbound-devel |
NO | DNS resolver |
libsodium | ? | NO | libsodium-dev |
libsodium |
libsodium-devel |
NO | cryptography |
libunwind | any | NO | libunwind8-dev |
libunwind |
libunwind-devel |
YES | Stack traces |
liblzma | any | NO | liblzma-dev |
xz |
xz-devel |
YES | For libunwind |
libreadline | 6.3.0 | NO | libreadline6-dev |
readline |
readline-devel |
YES | Input editing |
ldns | 1.6.17 | NO | libldns-dev |
ldns |
ldns-devel |
YES | SSL toolkit |
expat | 1.1 | NO | libexpat1-dev |
expat |
expat-devel |
YES | XML parsing |
GTest | 1.5 | YES | libgtest-dev ^ |
gtest |
gtest-devel |
YES | Test suite |
Doxygen | any | NO | doxygen |
doxygen |
doxygen |
YES | Documentation |
Graphviz | any | NO | graphviz |
graphviz |
graphviz |
YES | Documentation |
[^] On Debian/Ubuntu libgtest-dev
only includes sources and headers. You must
build the library binary manually. This can be done with the following command
sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev && cd /usr/src/gtest && sudo cmake . && sudo make && sudo mv libg* /usr/lib/
Debian / Ubuntu one liner for all dependencies
sudo apt update && sudo apt install git build-essential cmake pkg-config libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libzmq3-dev libunbound-dev libsodium-dev libunwind8-dev liblzma-dev libreadline6-dev libldns-dev libexpat1-dev doxygen graphviz libpgm-dev
Install all dependencies at once on macOS with the provided Brewfile: brew update && brew bundle --file=contrib/brew/Brewfile
FreeBSD one liner for required to build dependencies pkg install git gmake cmake pkgconf boost-libs cppzmq libsodium
Debug mode build also requires QT4, on Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install qt4-default
Clone recursively to pull-in needed submodule(s):
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/cutcoin/cutcoin
If you already have a repo cloned, initialize and update:
$ cd cutcoin && git submodule init && git submodule update
Cutcoin uses the CMake build system and a top-level Makefile that invokes cmake commands as needed.
-
Install the dependencies
-
Change to the root of the source code directory, change to the most recent release branch, and build:
cd cutcoin git checkout master make
Optional: If your machine has several cores and enough memory, enable parallel build by running
make -j<number of threads>
instead ofmake
. For this to be worthwhile, the machine should have one core and about 2GB of RAM available per thread.Note: If cmake can not find zmq.hpp file on OS X, installing
zmq.hpp
from https://github.com/zeromq/cppzmq to/usr/local/include
should fix that error. -
The resulting executables can be found in
build/release/bin
-
Add
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/cutcoin/build/release/bin"
to.profile
-
Run Cutcoin with
cutcoind --detach
-
Optional: build and run the test suite to verify the binaries:
make release-test
NOTE:
core_tests
test may take a few hours to complete. -
Optional: to build binaries suitable for debugging:
make debug
-
Optional: to build statically-linked binaries:
make release-static
Dependencies need to be built with -fPIC. Static libraries usually aren't, so you may have to build them yourself with -fPIC. Refer to their documentation for how to build them.
-
Optional: build documentation in
doc/html
(omitHAVE_DOT=YES
ifgraphviz
is not installed):HAVE_DOT=YES doxygen Doxyfile
Binaries for Windows are built on Windows using the MinGW toolchain within MSYS2 environment. The MSYS2 environment emulates a POSIX system. The toolchain runs within the environment and cross-compiles binaries that can run outside of the environment as a regular Windows application.
Preparing the build environment
-
Download and install the MSYS2 installer, either the 64-bit or the 32-bit package, depending on your system.
-
Open the MSYS shell via the
MSYS2 Shell
shortcut -
Update packages using pacman:
pacman -Syu
-
Exit the MSYS shell using Alt+F4
-
Edit the properties for the
MSYS2 Shell
shortcut changing "msys2_shell.bat" to "msys2_shell.cmd -mingw64" for 64-bit builds or "msys2_shell.cmd -mingw32" for 32-bit builds -
Restart MSYS shell via modified shortcut and update packages again using pacman:
pacman -Syu
-
Install dependencies:
To build for 64-bit Windows:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain make mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-boost mingw-w64-x86_64-openssl mingw-w64-x86_64-zeromq mingw-w64-x86_64-libsodium mingw-w64-x86_64-hidapi git
To build for 32-bit Windows:
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain make mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-i686-boost mingw-w64-i686-openssl mingw-w64-i686-zeromq mingw-w64-i686-libsodium mingw-w64-i686-hidapi git
-
Open the MingW shell via
MinGW-w64-Win64 Shell
shortcut on 64-bit Windows orMinGW-w64-Win64 Shell
shortcut on 32-bit Windows. Note that if you are running 64-bit Windows, you will have both 64-bit and 32-bit MinGW shells.
Cloning
-
To git clone, run:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/cutcoin/cutcoin.git
Building
-
Change to the cloned directory, run:
cd cutcoin
-
If you are on a 64-bit system, run:
make release-static-win64
-
If you are on a 32-bit system, run:
make release-static-win32
-
The resulting executables can be found in
build/release/bin
-
Optional: to build Windows binaries suitable for debugging on a 64-bit system, run:
make debug-static-win64
-
Optional: to build Windows binaries suitable for debugging on a 32-bit system, run:
make debug-static-win32
-
The resulting executables can be found in
build/debug/bin
The build places the binary in bin/
sub-directory within the build directory
from which cmake was invoked (repository root by default). To run in
foreground:
./bin/cutcoind
To list all available options, run ./bin/cutcoind --help
. Options can be
specified either on the command line or in a configuration file passed by the
--config-file
argument. To specify an option in the configuration file, add
a line with the syntax argumentname=value
, where argumentname
is the name
of the argument without the leading dashes, for example log-level=1
.
To run in background:
./bin/cutcoind --log-file cutcoind.log --detach
To run as a systemd service, copy
cutcoind.service to /etc/systemd/system/
and
cutcoind.conf to /etc/
. The example
service assumes that the user cutcoin
exists
and its home is the data directory specified in the example
config.
If you're on Mac, you may need to add the --max-concurrency 1
option to
cutcoin-wallet-cli, and possibly cutcoind, if you get crashes refreshing.
See README.i18n.md.
While CUT coin isn't made to integrate with Tor, it can be used wrapped with torsocks, by setting the following configuration parameters and environment variables:
--p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1
on the command line orp2p-bind-ip=127.0.0.1
in cutcoind.conf to disable listening for connections on external interfaces.--no-igd
on the command line orno-igd=1
in cutcoind.conf to disable IGD (UPnP port forwarding negotiation), which is pointless with Tor.DNS_PUBLIC=tcp
orDNS_PUBLIC=tcp://x.x.x.x
where x.x.x.x is the IP of the desired DNS server, for DNS requests to go over TCP, so that they are routed through Tor. When IP is not specified, cutcoind uses the default list of servers defined in src/common/dns_utils.cpp.TORSOCKS_ALLOW_INBOUND=1
to tell torsocks to allow cutcoind to bind to interfaces to accept connections from the wallet. On some Linux systems, torsocks allows binding to localhost by default, so setting this variable is only necessary to allow binding to local LAN/VPN interfaces to allow wallets to connect from remote hosts. On other systems, it may be needed for local wallets as well.- Do NOT pass
--detach
when running through torsocks with systemd, (see utils/systemd/cutcoind.service for details). - If you use the wallet with a Tor daemon via the loopback IP (eg, 127.0.0.1:9050),
then use
--untrusted-daemon
unless it is your own hidden service.
Example command line to start cutcoind through Tor:
DNS_PUBLIC=tcp torsocks cutcoind --p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --no-igd
TAILS ships with a very restrictive set of firewall rules. Therefore, you need to add a rule to allow this connection too, in addition to telling torsocks to allow inbound connections. Full example:
sudo iptables -I OUTPUT 2 -p tcp -d 127.0.0.1 -m tcp --dport 18081 -j ACCEPT
DNS_PUBLIC=tcp torsocks ./cutcoind --p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --no-igd --rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 \
--data-dir /home/amnesia/Persistent/your/directory/to/the/blockchain
This section contains general instructions for debugging failed installs or problems encountered with CUT coin. First ensure you are running the latest version built from the Github repo.
We generally use the tool gdb
(GNU debugger) to provide stack trace functionality,
and ulimit
to provide core dumps in builds which crash or segfault.
- To use gdb in order to obtain a stack trace for a build that has stalled:
Run the build.
Once it stalls, enter the following command:
gdb /path/to/cutcoind `pidof cutcoind`
Type thread apply all bt
within gdb in order to obtain the stack trace
- If however the core dumps or segfaults:
Enter ulimit -c unlimited
on the command line to enable unlimited filesizes for core dumps
Enter echo core | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
to stop cores from being hijacked
by other tools
Run the build.
When it terminates with an output along the lines of "Segmentation fault (core dumped)",
there should be a core dump file in the same directory as cutcoind. It may be named just
core
, or core.xxxx
with numbers appended.
You can now analyse this core dump with gdb
as follows:
gdb /path/to/cutcoind /path/to/dumpfile
Print the stack trace with bt
- To run cutcoin within gdb:
Type gdb /path/to/cutcoind
Pass command-line options with --args
followed by the relevant arguments
Type run
to run cutcoind
There are two tools available:
- ASAN
Configure CUT coin with the -D SANITIZE=ON cmake flag, eg:
cd build/debug && cmake -D SANITIZE=ON -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../..
You can then run the cutcoin tools normally. Performance will typically halve.
- valgrind
Install valgrind and run as valgrind /path/to/cutcoind
. It will be very slow.
Instructions for debugging suspected blockchain corruption as per @HYC
There is an mdb_stat
command in the LMDB source that can print statistics about
the database but it's not routinely built. This can be built with the following command:
cd ~/cutcoin/external/db_drivers/liblmdb && make
The output of mdb_stat -ea <path to blockchain dir>
will indicate inconsistencies
in the blocks, block_heights and block_info table.
The output of mdb_dump -s blocks <path to blockchain dir>
and
mdb_dump -s block_info <path to blockchain dir>
is useful for indicating whether
blocks and block_info contain the same keys.
These records are dumped as hex data, where the first line is the key and the second line is the data.