Taraxa is a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance blockchain.
You can read the Taraxa Whitepaper at https://www.taraxa.io/whitepaper.
Just want to get up and running quickly? We have pre-built docker images for your convenience. More details are in our quickstart guide.
There are 2 options how to run the latest version of taraxa-node:
Download and run taraxa docker image with pre-installed taraxad binary here.
Download and run statically linked taraxad binary here.
If you would like to build from source, we do have build instructions for Linux (Ubuntu LTS) and macOS.
taraxad --conf_taraxa /etc/taraxad/taraxad.conf
./taraxad --conf_taraxa /path/to/config/file
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.
For a full web node, you need at least ...GB of disk space available. The block log of the blockchain itself is a little over ...GB. It's highly recommended to run taraxad on a fast disk such as an SSD. At least ...GB of memory is required for a full web node. Any CPU with decent single core performance should be sufficient. Taraxa is constantly growing, so you may find you need more disk space to run a full node. We are also constantly working on optimizing Taraxa's use of disk space.
