/Zilliqa

Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform - designed to scale to thousands ​of transactions per second.

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Zilliqa (codename Durian)

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Overview

Zilliqa is a new blockchain platform capable of processing thousands of transactions per second with sharding built into it. With sharding, Zilliqa has the potential to match throughput benchmarks set by traditional payment methods (such as VISA and MasterCard). More importantly, Zilliqa’s transaction throughput increases (roughly) linearly with its network size.

Available Features

The current release has the following features implemented:

  • Proof of Work 1 (PoW1) and 2 (PoW2) for joining the network
  • Network sharding
  • Directory Service
  • Consensus for DS block, Sharding structure, Shard Microblock and Final block
  • EC-Schnorr signature
  • Data layer and accounts store
  • Looking up nodes to allow new nodes to join
  • Persistent storage for transactions
  • Merkle Patricia tree
  • Transaction verification

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

  • View change
  • Gossip protocol for network message broadcasting
  • Incentive structure
  • Smart contract design and implementation
  • GPU support for PoW
  • Zilliqa Wallet
  • 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 minimum system requirements:

  • x64 Linux operating system such as Ubuntu
  • Recent dual core processor
  • 2 GB RAM

Note: Presently we are in active development on Ubuntu 16.04. The support for building on other Ubuntu versions or other OSes is pending.

Dependencies

To compile and run the Zilliqa codebase, you will need the following dependencies to be installed on your machine:

  • Boost
  • OpenSSL
  • JsonCpp
  • LevelDB
  • CMake
  • build-essential
  • pkg-config
  • json-rpc-cpp

For Ubuntu 16.04, you can use the following command to install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libleveldb-dev libjsoncpp-dev libsnappy-dev cmake libmicrohttpd-dev libjsonrpccpp-dev build-essential pkg-config

For Mac OS X (experimental), you can use the following command to install the dependencies:

brew install pkg-config jsoncpp leveldb libjson-rpc-cpp

Running Zilliqa locally (using 10 shard nodes and DS node locally)

  1. Build Zilliqa from the source.
    ./build.sh

  2. Run the local testnet script
    ./tests/Node/test_node_simple.sh

  3. Logs of each node can be found at ./local_run

  4. To terminate Zilliqa,
    pkill zilliqa

Running a Zilliqa Node on the public testnet

Coming soon...

For further enquiries

If you have issues running a node, please feel free to join our Slack and ask questions. You can also submit your issue at our Github repository

Licence

You can view our licence here.