RChain Architecture

The RChain platform architecture description provides a high-level blueprint to build a decentralized, economically sustainable public compute infrastructure. The RChain design is inspired by that of earlier blockchains; it unifies decades of research across the fields of concurrent and distributed computation, formal semantics, and programming language design. The RChain platform boasts a modular, end-to-end design that commits to correct-by-construction software and industrial extensibility.

GETTING STARTED

This project uses Sphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/index.html) to build html that is published to Read the Docs. To run this documentation on your computer, you should do the following:

Prerequisites

Python 2.6 or later
git

Install Sphinx, etc

For OSX/Linux users (based on instructions here: https://read-the-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started.html)

From command line: sudo pip install sphinx sphinxcontrib-bibtex

For Windows users:

http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/install.html#windows-install-python-and-sphinx

Get source code

git clone: https://github.com/rchain/architecture-docs.git

Build and view html