README.md

XSN Core integration/staging tree

NOTE: Stakenet works extensively on off-chain Layer 2 (L2), as such development is across mutliple public and private repositories other than the main blockchain repository XSN.

Below are a collection of links for our current public development work.

• Web DEX interface: https://github.com/X9Developers/stakenet-web-ui

• Infrastructure/Blockchain Explorer : https://github.com/X9Developers/block-explorer

• DEX API Documentation for bot development: https://github.com/X9Developers/DexAPI

• If you are interested in finding out more about our current closed Beta L2 Light Wallet, please contact us in our Discord found here: https://discord.gg/cyF5yCA. Please note, this is currently being developed in a private repository.

Stakenet Cloud

https://stakenet.io

What is XSN?

XSN is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. XSN uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. XSN Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the XSN Core software, see https://stakenet.io/, or read the original whitepaper.

License

XSN Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Development Process

The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be completely stable. Tags are created regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of XSN Core.

The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Testing

Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.

Automated Testing

Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.

There are also regression and integration tests, written in Python, that are run automatically on the build server. These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py

The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and OS X, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.

Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing

Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.

Running with Docker

If you are already familiar with Docker, then running XSN with Docker might be the the easier method for you. To run XSN using this method, first install Docker. After this you may continue with the following instructions.

Please note that we currently don't support the GUI when running with Docker. Therefore, you can only use RPC (via HTTP or the xsn-cli utility) to interact with XSN via this method.

Right now we don't store the image in docker hub, so you need to build it on your own:

docker build . -t xsn

Start XSN daemon: ( you might consider to bind custom ports in case you want to run a node or make usage of the json-rpc api https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/)

docker run -d -P --name xsn xsn:latest

View current block count (this might take a while since the daemon needs to find other nodes and download blocks first):

docker exec xsn xsn-cli getblockcount

View connected nodes:

docker exec xsn xsn-cli getpeerinfo

Stop daemon:

docker stop xsn

Backup wallet:

docker cp xsn:/home/xsn/.xsncore/wallet.dat .

Start daemon again:

docker start xsn

Translations

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