Introducing Taraxa

Taraxa is a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance blockchain.

Whitepaper

You can read the Taraxa Whitepaper at https://www.taraxa.io/whitepaper.

Quickstart

Just want to get up and running quickly? We have pre-built docker images for your convenience. More details are in our quickstart guide.

Downloading

There are 2 options how to run the latest version of taraxa-node:

Docker image

Download and run taraxa docker image with pre-installed taraxad binary here.

Ubuntu binary

Download and run statically linked taraxad binary here.

Building

If you would like to build from source, we do have build instructions for Linux (Ubuntu LTS) and macOS.

Running

Inside docker image

taraxad --conf_taraxa /etc/taraxad/taraxad.conf

Pre-built binary or manual build:

./taraxad --conf_taraxa /path/to/config/file

Contributing

Want to contribute to Taraxa repository ? We in Taraxa highly appreciate community work so if you feel like you want to participate you are more than welcome. You can start by reading contributing tutorial.

Useful doc

• Git practices
• Coding practices
• EVM incompatibilities