Mainnet Preview 2

Stegos creates cutting-edge technology that keeps your secrets safe from prying eyes so you feel empowered and secure.

This is a second Preview release of upcoming Stegos mainnet. We declare the feature freeze with this release - no new features are planned until the upcoming mainnet release. Of course, some minor improvements and bug fixes will be made until the final mainnet release.

New in Stegos v0.9:

• Node has been split into two binaries: a full node daemon (stegosd) and a command-line client (stegos).
• Persistent history of transactions has been added to wallet (see show history command).
• Payment Certificates have been introduced in wallet - an (optional) way for a sender to prove to arbitrary third-parties that he made a particular payment.
• Switched to Base58 for external representation of wallet public keys (addresses) to provide more user-friendly encoding of addresses.
• Introduced the ability to set arbitrary fee amount for transactions, to increase chances of transaction to be included in the nearest block.
• Introduced API tokens for authorizing WebSockets API usage, even for localhost.
• Provided the ability for the user to change wallet password.
• Strengthen the security of the node’s docker image.

See previous releases and the project plan for additional information.

Upgrading from Mainnet Preview 1 is not supported - please start from a clean directory without old databases and keys.

Installation

Starting from this release, two components of Stegos Platform are provided:

• stegosd - Stegos Full Node Daemon.
• stegos - Stegos Command-Line Client.

Running Node

Download and run Stegos Node.

Linux 64-bit:

curl -L https://github.com/stegos/stegos/releases/download/v0.9/stegosd-linux-x64 -o stegosd
chmod a+x stegosd
./stegosd

macOS 64-bit:

curl -L https://github.com/stegos/stegos/releases/download/v0.9/stegosd-macos-x64 -o stegosd
chmod a+x stegosd
./stegosd

On the first start, the node will create a new wallet. Please create a strong password and save it in a safe place. This password is used locally to encrypt your data on the disk. There is no password recovery mechanism.

The following files and directories will be created:

• wallet.pkey - Wallet Public Key (Address) in Base58 format
• wallet.skey - Wallet Secret Key.
• network.pkey - Network Public Key in HEX format
• network.skey - Network Secret Key.
• data/chain/ - Blockchain Database.
• data/wallet/ - Wallet Database.
• api_token.txt - API Token need to connect to Node API.

After creation of a new wallet, the node will start synchronizing with the network and print a lot of INFO messages with debugging information regarding synchronization status.

Connecting to Node

Download and run a command-line client.

Linux 64-bit:

curl -L https://github.com/stegos/stegos/releases/download/v0.9/stegos-linux-x64 -o stegos
chmod a+x stegos
./stegos

macOS 64-bit:

curl -L https://github.com/stegos/stegos/releases/download/v0.9/stegos-macos-x64 -o stegos
chmod a+x stegos
./stegos

The command-line client will try to connect to local node and print stegos> prompt. To get help enter help command at the prompt. By default, the client reads API token from api_token.txt file in the current directory and tries to connect to default (127.0.0.1:3145) Node address. Please see stegos --help to override these options.

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