SHIFT Blocktime

Fixed at 50 seconds (average target 35-40 seconds)

SHIFT Blockreward

Static reward of 2 Shift per block.

Building SHIFT

For prerequisites and detailed build instructions please read the Installation Instructions on the wiki.

Building gshift requires both a Go and a C compiler. You can install them using your favourite package manager. Once the dependencies are installed, run

make gshift

Executables

Go Shift comes with several wrappers/executables found in the cmd directory:

• gshift Shift CLI (shift command line interface client)
• bootnode runs a bootstrap node for the Discovery Protocol
• shifttest test tool which runs with the tests suite: /path/to/test.json > shftest --test BlockTests --stdin.
• evm is a generic Shift Virtual Machine: evm -code 60ff60ff -gas 10000 -price 0 -dump. See -h for a detailed description.
• disasm disassembles EVM code: echo "6001" | disasm
• rlpdump prints RLP structures

Command line options

gshift can be configured via command line options, environment variables and config files.

To get the options available:

gshift help

WIKI (to be added on readthedocs)

Contribution

If you'd like to contribute to shift please fork, fix, commit and send a pull request. Commits who do not comply with the coding standards are ignored (use gofmt!). If you send pull requests make absolute sure that you commit on the develop branch and that you do not merge to master. Commits that are directly based on master are simply ignored.

See Developers' Guide for more details on configuring your environment, testing, and dependency management.