Bywise Fullnode

Bywise is an enterprise-grade permissioned Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Blockchain for developing solutions and applications. Its modular and versatile design suits a wide range of industry use cases. It offers a unique approach to consensus that enables performance at scale while preserving privacy.

Setup

Installation

1. Install NodeJS v20 or newer, Install project dependencies:

npm install
npm run build

2. Create your wallet:

node dist/index.js -new-wallet

2. Make a copy of .env.examples and rename the copy to .env:

cp .env.example .env

3. Update the environment variables in .env. You will need the following:

PORT=8080
NODES="http://localhost:8081,http://localhost:8082,http://localhost:8083"
HOST="http://localhost:8080"
SEED="_____________YOUR_SEED______________"
TOKEN="__________RANDOM_STRING____________"

Key	Description
PORT	The http server port.
NODES	List of servers that the node will try to connect to. If your network does not already have other nodes, just leave it empty.
HOST	Public server address.
SEED	seed generated in the previous step.
TOKEN	A string of random characters for generating authentication encryption.

Running

1. Create your local chain:

node dist/index.js -new-chain local

2. Run node:

node dist/index.js -log -chain local.json -start