Nockchain is a lightweight blockchain for heavyweight verifiable applications.

We believe the future of blockchains is lightweight trustless settlement of heavyweight verifiable computation. The only way to get there is by replacing verifiability-via-public-replication with verifiability-via-private-proving. Proving happens off-chain; verification is on-chain.

Install rustup by following their instructions at: https://rustup.rs/

Install choo, the Hoon compiler:

make install-choo

To build Nockchain:

make build-hoon-all
make build

To run a Nockchain node that publishes the genesis block:

make run-nockchain-leader

To run a Nockchain node that waits for the genesis block:

make run-nockchain-follower

To run the test suite:

make test