Horizon

Horizon is the client facing API server for the Stellar ecosystem. It acts as the interface between stellar-core and applications that want to access the Stellar network. It allows you to submit transactions to the network, check the status of accounts, subscribe to event streams, etc. See an overview of the Stellar ecosystem for more details.

Downloading the server

Prebuilt binaries of horizon are available on the releases page.

Platform	Binary file name
Mac OSX 64 bit	horizon-darwin-amd64
Linux 64 bit	horizon-linux-amd64
Windows 64 bit	horizon-windows-amd64.exe

Alternatively, you can build the binary yourself.

Dependencies

Horizon requires go 1.6 or higher to build. See (https://golang.org/doc/install) for installation instructions.

Building

gb is used for building horizon.

Given you have a running golang installation, you can install this with:

go get -u github.com/constabulary/gb/...

Next, you must download the source for packages that horizon depends upon. From within the project directory, run:

gb vendor restore

Then, simply run gb build. After successful completion, you should find bin/horizon is present in the project directory.

More detailed intructions and admin guide.

Developing Horizon

See the development guide.

Contributing

Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to contribute to this project.

mahansky/horizon