Gerolamo

Cardano Node implementation in Typesript

Why?

1. Open core development to a wider spectrum of developers, with a considerable impact on the decentralization of Cardano

2. serve as a base to then extract the "runtime indipendent" code and have a passive node running in browsers

3. be the example project for future, purpose specific nodes, that don't require all the work that a full node does, some examples could be:

   • light weight node following only the tip of the chain (example usages: some mini-protocols servers or ad-hoc chain indexer saving blocks elsewhere)
   • node that only keeps the ledger state, for optimal UTxO queries
   • etc.