KatKoyn Core KatKoyn
winget install --id=KatKoyn.KatKoynCore -e KatKoyn is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and uses Scrypt instead of SHA-256 for the mining algorithm, much like Litecoin.
KatKoyn Core is a cryptocurrency platform designed to facilitate secure and efficient transactions using the Scrypt mining algorithm, similar to Litecoin but inspired by Bitcoin's framework. It serves as a decentralized digital currency solution for users seeking privacy, scalability, and ease of integration.
Key Features:
- Secure Transactions: Enables fast and private peer-to-peer transfers with robust cryptographic protection.
- Lightweight Design: Optimized for low-resource environments while maintaining high performance.
- Cross-Platform Compatibility: Supports multiple operating systems for seamless wallet access and management.
- Advanced Security: Built-in features like encrypted wallets, mining resistance to Sybil attacks, and staking capabilities ensure user funds remain protected.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for tech-savvy users, developers, and businesses looking to integrate a reliable cryptocurrency solution into their ecosystem. KatKoyn Core provides enhanced privacy, reduced transaction fees compared to Bitcoin, and supports both mining and staking for cost-effective participation in the network.
The software can be installed via winget, ensuring a straightforward setup process.
README
KatKoyn Core (KAT)
What is KatKoyn?
KatKoyn is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and uses Scrypt instead of SHA-256 for the mining algorithm, much like Litecoin.
License
KatKoyn Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development and contributions
Development is ongoing, and the development team, as well as other volunteers, can freely work in their own trees and submit pull requests when features or bug fixes are ready.
Version strategy
Version numbers are following major.minor.patch semantics.
Branches
There are 3 types of branches in this repository:
- master: Stable, contains the latest version of the latest major.minor release.
- maintenance: Stable, contains the latest version of previous releases, which are still under active maintenance. Format:
-maint - development: Unstable, contains new code for planned releases. Format:
-dev
Master and maintenance branches are exclusively mutable by release. Planned releases will always have a development branch and pull requests should be submitted against those. Maintenance branches are there for bug fixes only, please submit new features against the development branch with the highest version.
Contributions
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests of the RPC interface, written
in Python, that are run automatically on the build server.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
How to make katkoynd/katkoyn-cli/katkoyn-qt
The following are developer notes on how to build KatKoyn on your native platform. They are not complete guides, but include notes on the necessary libraries, compile flags, etc.
KatKoyn ports
RPC 33700 P2P 33701
debug.log
If the code is behaving strangely, take a look in the debug.log file in the data directory; error and debugging messages are written there.
The -debug=... command-line option controls debugging; running with just -debug will turn on all categories (and give you a very large debug.log file).
The Qt code routes qDebug() output to debug.log under category "qt": run with -debug=qt to see it.
testnet and regtest modes
Run with the -testnet option to run with "play KatKoyns" on the test network, if you are testing multi-machine code that needs to operate across the internet.
If you are testing something that can run on one machine, run with the -regtest option. In regression test mode, blocks can be created on-demand; see qa/rpc-tests/ for tests that run in -regtest mode.
DEBUG_LOCKORDER
KatKoyn Core is a multithreaded application, and deadlocks or other multithreading bugs can be very difficult to track down. Compiling with -DDEBUG_LOCKORDER (configure CXXFLAGS="-DDEBUG_LOCKORDER -g") inserts run-time checks to keep track of which locks are held, and adds warnings to the debug.log file if inconsistencies are detected.