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RChain Architecture

The RChain platform architecture description provides a high-level blueprint to build a decentralized, economically sustainable public compute infrastructure. The RChain design is inspired by that of earlier blockchains; it unifies decades of research across the fields of concurrent and distributed computation, formal semantics, and programming language design. The RChain platform boasts a modular, end-to-end design that commits to correct-by-construction software and industrial extensibility.

GETTING STARTED

This project uses Sphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/index.html) to build html that is published to Read the Docs. To run this documentation on your computer, you should do the following:

Prerequisites

  • Python 2.6 or later
  • git

Install Sphinx, etc

For OSX/Linux users (based on instructions here: https://read-the-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started.html)

  • From command line: sudo pip install sphinx sphinxcontrib-bibtex

For Windows users:

Get source code

Build and view html

  • In a terminal window, go to your architecture-docs directory.
  • make html
  • cd build/html
  • open index.html (open in web browser)
  • Tip: each time you run make html, just reload your browser to view changes