Zilliqa (codename Durian)

Overview

Zilliqa is a scalable smart contract platform that aims to tackle the congestion issue plaguing the blockchain industry. Zilliqa utilises a unique sharded architecture to achieve parallel processing of transactions while maintaining a large number of public nodes. Hence, Zilliqa is a blockchain capable of reaching high throughput and processing more complex computations while remaining decentralised and secure.

If you’re interested in mining Zilliqa, see here: https://github.com/Zilliqa/Zilliqa/wiki/Mining.
If you’d like to use the interface with Zilliqa nodes to transfer ZIL and deploy/call smart contracts, see here: https://apidocs.zilliqa.com/.
If you’re interested in hacking on the Zilliqa code base, see the Coding Guidelines.

NOTE: The master branch is not for production as development is currently being worked constantly, please use the tag releases if you wish to work on the version of Zilliqa client that is running live on the Zilliqa blockchain. (Current live version tag release is v4.5.0)

Zilliqa Mainnet

	URL(s)
API URL	`https://api.zilliqa.com/`
Block Explorer 1	Link
Block Explorer 2	Link

Developer Testnet

	URL(s)
API URL	`https://dev-api.zilliqa.com/`
Block Explorer	Link
Faucet/Wallet	Link

Available features

The current release has the following features implemented:

Network sharding
Transaction sharding
Ethash Proof of Work (PoW) for joining the network
GPU (OpenCL and CUDA) for PoW
Gas rewards and pricer
Coinbase rewards
EC-Schnorr signature
pBFT Consensus mechanism
Data layer and accounts store
Smart contract layer
State delta forwarding
Lookup nodes and Seed nodes for receiving and dispatching transactions
Persistent storage for transactions and state
S3 storage retrieval from archival nodes
View change mechanism
Node recovery mechanism
Protocol upgrade mechanism
Gossip protocol for network message broadcasting

In the coming months, we plan to have the following features:

Further unit and integration tests
Enhancement of existing features
More operating system support
And much more...

Minimum system requirements

To run Zilliqa, we recommend the following as the minimum system requirements:

x64 Linux operating system such as Ubuntu
Intel i5 processor or later
2 GB RAM or higher

Build Dependencies

Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-test-dev \
    libssl-dev libleveldb-dev libjsoncpp-dev libsnappy-dev cmake libmicrohttpd-dev \
    libjsonrpccpp-dev build-essential pkg-config libevent-dev libminiupnpc-dev \
    libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libcurl4-openssl-dev libboost-program-options-dev

Build from Source Code

Build Zilliqa from the source:

# download the lastest stable Zilliqa source code
$ git clone git@github.com:Zilliqa/Zilliqa.git
$ cd Zilliqa && git checkout tag/v4.5.0

# build Zilliqa binary
$ ./build.sh

If you want to build the development branch instead, do:

$ git checkout master

Boot up a local testnet for development

Run the local testnet script in build directory:

$ cd build && ./tests/Node/pre_run.sh && ./tests/Node/test_node_lookup.sh && ./tests/Node/test_node_simple.sh

Logs of each node can be found at ./local_run.
To terminate Zilliqa:
```
$ pkill zilliqa
```

Further enquiries

	Link(s)
Development discussion
Bug report
Security contact	`security` 🌐 `zilliqa.com`
Security bug bounty	https://bugcrowd.com/zilliqa

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