Node documentation for cheqd network

ℹ️ Overview

cheqd is a public self-sovereign identity (SSI) network for building secure 🔐 and private 🤫 self-sovereign identity systems on 💫. Our core vision is to add viable commercial models to decentralised digital 🆔

cheqd-node is the ledger/node component of the cheqd network tech stack, built using and .

▶️ Quick start for joining cheqd networks

Join our for help, questions, and support if you are looking to join our or .

Either the cheqd team, or one of your fellow node operators will be happy to offer some guidance.

✅ Mainnet

Getting started as a node operator on the cheqd network is as simple as...

1. Install of cheqd-node software (currently v3.x.x) on a hosting platform of your choice by .

2. Once you have acquired CHEQ tokens, .

If successfully configured, your node would become the latest validator on the cheqd mainnet. Welcome to the new digital ID revolution!

🚧 Testnet

Our is the easiest place for developers and node operators to get started if you're not quite ready yet to dive into building apps on our mainnet. To get started...

1. Install of cheqd-node software (currently v3.x.x) on a hosting platform of your choice by .

2. Acquire testnet CHEQ tokens through .

3. Once you have acquired CHEQ tokens, .

🧑‍💻 Using cheqd

Once installed, cheqd-node can be controlled using the .

📌 Currently supported functionality

• Basic token functionality for holding and transferring tokens to other accounts on the same network

• Creating, managing, and configuring accounts and keys on a cheqd node

• Staking and participating in public-permissionless governance

• Governance framework for public-permissionless self-sovereign identity networks

🛠 Developing & contributing to cheqd

cheqd-node is written in Go and built using Cosmos SDK. The explains a lot of the of how the cheqd network functions.

If you want to build a node from source or contribute to the code, please read our guide to .

Creating a local network

If you are building from source, or otherwise interested in running a local network, we have for development purposes.

🐞 Bug reports & 🤔 feature requests

If you notice anything not behaving how you expected, or would like to make a suggestion / request for a new feature, please create a and let us know.

💬 Community

Our is our primary chat channel for the open-source community, software developers, and node operators.

Please reach out to us there for discussions, help, and feedback on the project.

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