How the network works

In a peer-to-peer network, each participant can connect to several others without a required central server. Nodes exchange messages, relay transactions, and propagate blocks they consider valid.

• Peers discover one another and maintain connections.
• Transactions are broadcast to connected nodes.
• Blocks are propagated after validation under network rules.
• Each node locally applies the rules it knows.

Full node

Maintains a copy of network data and verifies applicable rules. Final requirements will be published with the official release.

Read-only node

Provides read access to public data. It must never expose an administrative interface or sensitive RPC to the Internet.

Peer

Another network participant with which a node exchanges messages.

Operating a node is not required to browse this website. The official website is independent of the network and remains available even when no nodes can be reached.

• No active-node count is shown until a reliable public source is available.
• No chain-height statistics are simulated.
• Network status will be shown as “unavailable” until the public API is connected.

A node intended to remain online should run on a dedicated, updated, monitored machine. Wallet secrets must never be stored on this type of server.