What is Achain?

Achain is a decentralized blockchain based on BTS1.0, which integrates lua virtual machine-based smart contracts. It is also a software platform designed to help coordinate voluntary free market operations amongst a set of social actors.

Achain is making efforts to build up a high-performance decentralized enterprise blockchain platform to develop business blockchain applications, to eliminate cognitive fear of enterprises facing blockchain technology or corresponding applications, and to make the blockchain visualized and configurable.

Replicas of the state machine are kept consistent using the Result Delegated Proof-of-Stake distributed consensus protocol.

For more information about Achain, please read the whitepaper:

• Achain White Paper.

Supported Operating Systems

Achain currently supports the following operating systems:

1. Windows 7 and higher
2. CentOS / RHEL / Oracle Linux 7.2.1511 / 7.3.1611 / 7.4
3. Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10
4. MacOS Darwin 10.13
5. Fedora 27 / 25

Building Achain

Different platforms have different build instructions:

• Windows
• Linux

How to deploy a private chain

• deploy private chain

Integration instructions for exchanges

• Achain-Exchange

How to use the RPC API

• RPC API

Contributing

The source code can always be found at the Achain GitHub Repository.

• master - official Achain releases are tagged from here; this should only change for a new release
• storage_optimization - Testing which version is better for smart contracts

Technical documentation is available at the Achain GitHub Wiki.

Support

Bugs can be reported directly to the Achain Issue Tracker.

Technical support can be obtained via the AchainTalk Technical Support Forum.

License

The Achain project is licensed under the MIT license.