Kulupu

Kulupu is a pure (no pre-mine, no gadget) proof-of-work blockchain built on the Substrate framework, with support of on-chain governance and online upgrades. It uses ASIC-resistant mining algorithm of RandomX.

Status

The network was launched in September 2019. The first hard fork, code-named Slag Ravine happened in December 2019, at era 0 block 100,000. The second hard fork, code-named Swamp Bottom happened at era 0 block 320,000 on 6th May 2020.

The current Kulupu blockchain enabled Substrate's balances and governance pallet modules. Smart contract is a planned but not yet enabled feature, due to stability concerns.

Run

You can use the binary build at Kulupu's releases page.

Build

Prerequisites

Clone this repo and update the submodules:

git clone https://github.com/kulupu/kulupu
cd kulupu
git submodule update --init --recursive

Install Rust and required tools:

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env
./scripts/init.sh

Install necessary dependencies. On Ubuntu, run the following:

sudo apt install -y cmake pkg-config libssl-dev git gcc build-essential clang libclang-dev

Full Node

cargo run --release

Transition from Era 0

If you previously run Era 0 full node, please purge the current block storage before continue.

cargo run --release -- purge-chain

Mining

Import or generate a mining key

Kulupu implements signed mining. To mine Kulupu blocks, you have to have the coinbase private key stored in the mining software, as a new signature is produced for every new nonce. We refer to the private key for signed mining as the mining key.

The eaiest way to get a mining key is to generate a new one using the generate-mining-key command:

cargo run --release -- generate-mining-key

Keep your secret seed in a secure place.

Alternatively, you can also import an existing private key as the mining key, using the import-mining-key command:

cargo run --release -- import-mining-key "<secret seed>"

Pass author argument to node for mining

Remember either the public key or the address, and pass it to node for mining. For example:

cargo run --release -- --validator --author 0x7e946b7dd192307b4538d664ead95474062ac3738e04b5f3084998b76bc5122d

Proof of Work Parameters

• Algorithm: RandomX
• Block time: 60 seconds
• Total issurance: Governed on-chain, expected to be no more than 210 million KLP.
• No premine

Disclaimer

This project is a side project by Wei Tang, and is not endorsed by Parity Technologies.