vince

vince (ECH) is a scalable, high-throughput Proof-of-Stake blockchain that is fully compatible and interoperable with Ethereum and Cosmos. It's built using the Cosmos SDK which runs on top of Tendermint Core consensus engine with EVMOS Ethermint.

Note: Requires Go 1.18+

Installation

For prerequisites and detailed build instructions please read the Installation instructions. Once the dependencies are installed, run:

make install

Or check out the latest release.

Genesis

To get onto our mainnet (vince_5000-1) genesis download the genesis.json here

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/vincefoundation/ee862f58850fc1b5ee6a6fdccc3130d2/raw/55c2c4ea2fee8a9391d0dc55b2c272adb804054a/genesis.json

and then move it into the vinced config (after you have initilized your node)

vinced init <nodename> --chain-id vince_5000-1

mv genesis.json ~/.vinced/config/

Quick Start

To learn how the vince works from a high-level perspective, go to the Introduction section from the documentation. You can also check the instructions to Run a Node. You can also read the Cosmos SDK and familiarize yourself with Cosmos SDK, Tendermint, and Ethermint.

Community

The following chat channels and forums are a great spot to ask questions about vince:

• vince Twitter
• vince Discord
• vince Telegram
• Official Website
• Official Dapp

Contributing

Looking for a good place to start contributing? Check out some good first issues.

Original codebase forked from EVMOS

For additional instructions, standards and style guides, please refer to the Contributing document.