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VeChainThor

Thor is VeChain's new generation blockchain project. It's the official implementation written in golang.

Installation

Requirements

Thor requires Go 1.10+ and C compiler to build. To install Go, follow this link.

In addition, dep is required to manage dependencies.

Getting the source

Clone the Thor repo:

git clone https://github.com/vechain/thor.git
cd thor

Install dependencies: (Note that to make dep work, you should put Thor's source code at proper position under your $GOPATH.)

dep ensure

Building

To build the main app thor, just run

make

or build the full suite:

make all

If no error reported, all built executable binaries will appear in folder bin.

Running Thor

Connect to VeChain's testnet:

bin/thor -network test

To find out usages of all command line options:

bin/thor -h
  • --network value the network to join (test)
  • --data-dir value directory for block-chain databases
  • --beneficiary value address for block rewards
  • --api-addr value API service listening address (default: "localhost:8669")
  • --api-cors value comma separated list of domains from which to accept cross origin requests to API
  • --verbosity value log verbosity (0-9) (default: 3)
  • --max-peers value maximum number of P2P network peers (P2P network disabled if set to 0) (default: 25)
  • --p2p-port value P2P network listening port (default: 11235)
  • --nat value port mapping mechanism (any|none|upnp|pmp|extip:) (default: "none")
  • --help, -h show help
  • --version, -v print the version

API

Once thor started, online OpenAPI doc can be accessed in your browser. e.g. http://localhost:8669/ by default.

FAQ

Acknowledgement

Community

Contributing

License

VeChainThor is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, also included in LICENSE file in repository.