The official Dusk protocol node client and smart contract platform.

Unstable : No guarantees can be made regarding the API stability, the project is in development.

🖧 How to run a node

This README is for people who want to develop, test nodes locally, and contribute to the Rusk codebase.

For more information on running a node for main- or testnet, see our Node operator docs

📃 Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
  • Setup script
  • Rust Installation
• Build and Tests
• Run a local node for development
  • Spin up local node
    • Prepare modules
    • Run a node
    • Run an archive node
    • Run a prover node
• Contracts compilation
• Docker support

📝 Prerequisites

• Rust 1.71 nightly or higher
• GCC 13 or higher
• Clang 16 or higher

Setup script

We provide a setup script in the scripts folder that can take care of everything.

bash scripts/dev-setup.sh

Rust Installation

Rusk makes use of the nightly toolchain, make sure it is installed. Furthermore, to build the WASM contracts, wasm-pack is required.

To install and set the nightly toolchain, and install wasm-pack, run:

rustup toolchain install nightly
rustup default nightly
cargo install wasm-pack

🛠️ Build and Tests

To build rusk from source, make sure the prerequisites are met. Then you can simply run the following command to compile everything:

make

To run tests:

make test

That will also compile all the genesis contracts and its associated circuits. See also make help for all the available commands

💻 Run a local node for development

Spin up local node

Run a single full-node cluster with example state.

Prepare modules:

# Generate the keys used by the circuits
# Compile all the genesis contracts
# Copy example consensus.keys
make prepare-dev

Run a Node

# Launch a local ephemeral node
make run-dev

Run an Archive node

make run-dev-archive

Run a Prover Node

The node can be build as a prover only as follows:

cargo r --release --no-default-features --features prover -p rusk

This prover node will be accessible on https://localhost:8080. Apps like the rusk-wallet can be connected to it for quicker and more private local proving.

📜 Contracts compilation

Compile all the genesis contracts without running the server:

make contracts

Compile a specific genesis contract:

# generate the wasm for `transfer` contract
make wasm for=transfer

🐳 Docker support

It's also possible to run a local ephemeral node with Docker.

To build the Docker image with archive:

docker build -t rusk .

To build the Docker image without archive:

docker build -t rusk --build-arg CARGO_FEATURES="" .

To run Rusk inside a Docker container:

docker run -p 9000:9000/udp -p 8080:8080/tcp rusk

Port 9000 is used for Kadcast, port 8080 for the HTTP and GraphQL APIs.

License

The Rusk software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0.