Welcome to the official Go implementation of IoTeX protocol! IoTeX is building the next generation of the decentralized blockchain protocol for powering real-world information marketplace in a decentralized-yet-scalable way. Refer to IoTeX whitepaper for details.

The easiest way to get iotex-core is to use one of release packages which are available for OSX, Linux on the release page. Iotex-core is also distributed via docker image on docker hub.

Download the code to your desired local location (doesn't have to be under $GOPATH/src)

git clone [email protected]:iotexproject/iotex-core.git
cd iotex-core

If you put the project code under your $GOPATH\src, you will need to set up an environment variable

export GO111MODULE=on
set GO111MODULE=on (for windows)

Build the project for general purpose (server, ioctl) by

make

Build the project for broader purpose (server, ioctl, injector...) by

make all 

If the dependency needs to be updated, run

go get -u
go mod tidy

If you want learn more advanced usage about go mod, you can find out here.

Run unit tests only by

make test

Build the docker image by

make docker

Start (or resume) a standalone server to operate on an blockchain by

make run

Restart the server from a clean state by

make reboot

If "make run" fails due to corrupted or missing state database while block database is in normal condition, e.g., failing to get factory's height from underlying DB, please try to recover state database by

make recover

Then, "make run" again.

Users could interact with iotex blockchain by

ioctl [command]

Refer to CLI document for more details.

• Mailing list: iotex-dev
• Dev Forum: forum
• Bugs: issues

We are glad to have contributors out of the core team; contributions, including (but not limited to) style/bug fixes, implementation of features, proposals of schemes/algorithms, and thorough documentation, are welcomed. Please refer to our contribution guideline for more information. Development guide documentation is here.

For any major protocol level changes, we use IIP to track the proposal, decision and etc.

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.