FlakeChain v0.4.9-beta.2

FlakeChain is Monero git trunk fork with Ecosystem and REST API to Blockchain

Description

FlakeChain is a private, secure, untraceable, decentralised digital currency. You are your bank, you control your funds, and nobody can trace your transfers unless you allow them to do so.

Updating to boost1.67 (boost-latest) on Ubuntu (any version)

Community

• Github
• Discord
• Telegram
• BitcoinTalk
• Twitter

Markets

• StocksExchange
• MapleChange

Changelog

• tweaked PoW to block DoS attacks from ASICs
• added input ordering to prevent wallet inference
• increased minimum ring size from 5 to 7
• subaddress support added, with addresses starting with a prefix of 8
• added multisig support
• added support for SunOS / Solaris
• initial support for Ledger Nano S hardware wallet
• added seed encryption by password
• securely erase keys from memory, for most cases, when no longer in use
• initial Bulletproofs implementation live on testnet
• added accounts, tags, and labels, via subaddresses
• added initial, quite rough support for 0MQ
• added some mitigations for privacy-threatening key reusing forks
• added a new network, stagenet, which mirrors mainnet's features
• added SSL support for light wallet API
• added CORS support to the RPC stack
• added a --generate-from-spend-key flag to the CLI wallet
• added a --disable-dns-checkpoints flag to the daemon
• massive improvements to build hardening
• added native fuzz testing for user input
• added the ability to limit inbound connections
• enabled "fluffy blocks" by default
• added a --max-txpool-size mempool size limit flag
• allow a remote node to temporarily process RPC requests during IBD
• added a relay_tx command to the RPC wallet
• allow for spend key retrieval via RPC wallet call
• made libraries use position independent code
• improvements made to Docker image
• added a sweep_single command to the CLI wallet
• made RPC error codes more specific
• improved stack trace printing, and noted stack trace lib in output
• split and refactored wallet_api from wallet code
• added priority arguments to sweep_all and donate CLI wallet commands
• added a --do-not-relay option to the CLI wallet
• made the hashchain unit tests work again
• added tests for subaddress expansion
• added RingCT performance tests
• added package installation instructions for Void Linux
• made changes to ensure no sensitive data is logged accidentally
• added a Croatian mnemonic word list
• added a Lojban mnemonic word list
• added a Swedish CLI translation
• added stoffu's GPG key to the source code
• added an timeoue for connections which don't complete a handshake
• moved test building to the end of the CMake build process
• as always, loads of bug fixes and performance improvements

Building from source

Prerequisite

To build and launch FlakeChain on POSIX compatible OS you need first setup required libraries and tools:

Ubuntu 18.04

You may need to install sudo with following command

$ apt install sudo

Open terminal session and run following commands or execute requirements-ubuntu.sh file.

# update apt on fresh system and install git to clone source
$ sudo apt update && apt upgrade
# install dependencies
$ sudo apt install \
    git-core \
    build-essential \
    cmake \
    libboost-all-dev \
    miniupnpc \
    libunbound-dev \
    graphviz \
    doxygen \
    libunwind8-dev \
    pkg-config \
    libssl-dev \
    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    libgtest-dev \
    libreadline-dev \
    libminiupnpc-dev \
    libzmq3-dev
    
# getting the source
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/flakechain/flake-core.git

or

$ sudo apt update && apt upgrade && apt install git-core
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/flakechain/flake-core.git
$ cd flake-core
$ sudo sh ./bin/requirements-ubuntu.sh

Another Distributives

Just use your package manager and/or naming convention to install list of required software from previous APT command.

Getting The Source

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/flakechain/flake-core.git

Or clone Submodules later (Project was cloned earlier)

$ cd flake-core && git submodule init && git submodule update

You can pull latest stable source from @flakechain/flake-core master branch. If you are interested in experimental feature just checkout it's feature-branch after cloning or download source archives from Releases and for sure you can pull any commit using

# checkout branch smart-contracts-feature
git checkout smart-contracts-feature
# checkout commit
git checkout 61eea839786149e587f939bcdb1c40009638845f   

Building

Just run make command from project root folder to launch Makefile wrapper for CMake or run standard CMake building flow

$ make

or

$ mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make

Wait until it finish compile and link tasks.

Copyright

© 2018 FlakeChain contributors

© 2014-2018 Monero contributors

© ~ 2014 Cryptonote contributors