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Floresta, a collection of crates to build lightweight, fast, and reliable Bitcoin nodes and wallets, powered by Utreexo, a novel accumulator to represent the Bitcoin UTXO set.
This project is layed out as a collection of crates, each implementing one functionality. They are all named floresta-*. The main crate is floresta, which is a meta-crate that depends on all the others. It is meant to be used as a dependency in other projects.
A Bitcoin node is composed of several components. You need some way to express the current network state, some way to communicate with other nodes, some way to store the blockchain, validate data you receive and interact with the user. The current network state (including the accumulator) is tracked by the floresta-chain crate. It doesn’t know where data comes from, it just tracks the state, exposing a simple API to update it. The chain is reactive, meaning that it will only update when new data is received.
The floresta-wire crate is responsible for communicating with other nodes. It is a simple node implementation that can connect to other nodes, send and receive messages, and handle the peer-to-peer protocol. It is not a full node, it doesn’t store the blockchain or validate data, it just sends and receives messages.
Floresta also provides a simple watch-only wallet and an electrum server implementation.
They are meant to be used in florestad, a full node implementation that uses all the
crates in this project.
You can find examples of how to use the crates in the examples directory.
Name
Floresta is the Portuguese word for forest. It is a reference to the Utreexo accumulator, which is a forest of Merkle trees. It’s pronounced /floˈɾɛstɐ/.
Re-exports
pub use floresta_chain as chain;pub use floresta_common as common;pub use floresta_electrum as electrum;pub use floresta_watch_only as wallet;pub use floresta_wire as wire;