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æternity testnet: solving scalability problems by making sense of state-channels

Primary LanguageErlangOtherNOASSERTION

Aeternity

A blockchain for trust-free financial derivatives. Optimized for scalability. Written in Erlang.

Installing dependencies

you will need Erlang and a couple of libraries before you are able to run this software.

For Ubuntu

For Mac

Running the blockchain

If you just want to launch a node and connect to the network, look at the quick start guide

Using the wallet

Included is a wallet. A wallet is for storing your private key, and for making signatures. Read here about how to secure your private key with a password. That way you can have tokens. Secure your keys

Blockchain Commands

Read about the commands in depth in the docs This is how you control the node once it is started.

Testing

Before running tests, run make prepare-nose-env to setup acceptance tests environment.

To run tests on your machine, run make tests in project source root. This will first build, install and start 3 test nodes, then run acceptance tests on them.

If you are looking for more detailed explanation on how the nodes are started look at the advanced notes on installation.

If you want to know more about how the tests are run see testing.

Else

If you want to know more, get in touch with us via gitter chat