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What is DeFiChain?

DeFiChain’s primary vision is to enable decentralized finance with Bitcoin-grade security, strength and immutability. It's a blockchain dedicated to fast, intelligent and transparent financial services, accessible by everyone.

For more information:

• Visit the DeFiChain website
• Read our white-paper

Downloadable binaries are available from the GitHub Releases page.

NOTE: master branch is a development branch and is not suitable for production. Please download tagged releases or compile from the release tags.

Bitcoin Core

DeFiChain is a fork on Bitcoin Core from commit 7d6f63c – which is slightly after v0.18.1 of Bitcoin Core.

DeFiChain has done significant modifications from Bitcoin Core, for instance:

• Moving from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake
• Masternode model
• Community fund support
• Bitcoin blockchain block anchoring
• Increased decentralized financial transaction and opcode support, etc.
• Configuration defaults (mainnet ports: 8555/4, testnet ports: 18555/4, changi ports: 20554/4, devnet ports: 21554/4, regnet ports: 19555/4 etc)

Merges from upstream (Bitcoin Core) will be done selectively if it applies to the improved functionality and security of DeFiChain.

Quick Start

• Running a node
• Running a node with docker
• Running a masternode
• Building from scratch

License

DeFiChain is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Development Process

The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be completely stable. Tags are created regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of DeFiChain.

The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Questions?

Pull requests are warmly welcomed.

Reach us at engineering@defichain.com for any questions or collaborations.