Arthera Beacon chain

This is the initial chain to bootstrap the Arthera Network, which we named the "beacon" chain. It's an EVM-compatible chain, secured by the Lachesis DAG consensus algorithm. The purpose of the Beacon chain is to gather initial support around the Arthera Network, prior to the launch of the new Main chain that will have all the features of Arthera.

Building the source

Building the arthera-node requires both a Go version 1.14 or later and a C compiler.

To build the node binary just run:

make arthera

The build output is build/arthera-node executable.

Building the Docker image

First, commit your changes to the repository, then run:

make docker

Creating a new release

First, commit your changes to the repository, then run:

Versioning

The versioning the Semver-compatible, with the following format:

MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-META-GITCOMMIT-GITDATE

Where:

• MAJOR - is the major version, incremented when there are incompatible changes
• MINOR - is the minor version, incremented when there are new features in a backward compatible manner
• PATCH - is the patch version, incremented when there backward compatible are bug fixes
• META - is the metadata, which is either "alpha", "beta" or "rc" (release candidate)
• GITCOMMIT - is the short git commit hash
• GITDATE - is the date of the commit in Unix epoch time

License

The Arthera Beacon chain is licensed under the GPLv3 license.