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ℹ️ Overview

cheqd is a public self-sovereign identity (SSI) network for building secure 🔐 and private 🤫 self-sovereign identity systems on Cosmos 💫. Our core vision is to add viable commercial models to decentralised digital 🆔

cheqd-node is the ledger/node component of the cheqd network tech stack, built using Cosmos SDK and Tendermint.

▶️ Quick start for joining cheqd networks

Join our cheqd Discord Server for help, questions, and support if you are looking to join our mainnet or testnet. Either the cheqd team, or one of your fellow node operators will be happy to offer some guidance.

✅ Mainnet

Getting started as a node operator on the cheqd network mainnet is as simple as...

  1. Install the latest stable release of cheqd-node software (currently v2.x.x) on a hosting platform of your choice by following the setup guide.
  2. Once you have acquired CHEQ tokens, promote your node to a validator

If successfully configured, your node would become the latest validator on the cheqd mainnet. Welcome to the new digital ID revolution!

🚧 Testnet

Our testnet is the easiest place for developers and node operators to get started if you're not quite ready yet to dive into building apps on our mainnet. To get started...

  1. Install the latest stable release of cheqd-node software (currently v2.x.x) on a hosting platform of your choice by following the setup guide.
  2. Acquire testnet CHEQ tokens through our testnet faucet.
  3. Once you have acquired CHEQ tokens, promote your node to a validator

🧑‍💻 Using cheqd

Once installed, cheqd-node can be controlled using the cheqd Cosmos CLI guide.

📌 Currently supported functionality

We plan on adding new functionality rapidly and on a regular basis and welcome feedback on our cheqd Discord server.

See our detailed Product Docs below for more information:

Product DocsDive into our product docs to learn more about cheqd Studio, Creds and our identity packages & SDKs, including Credo, Veramo, the Universal Resolver and Registrar.https://docs.cheqd.io/product

🛠 Developing & contributing to cheqd

cheqd-node is written in Go and built using Cosmos SDK. The Cosmos SDK Developer Guide explains a lot of the basic concepts of how the cheqd network functions.

If you want to build a node from source or contribute to the code, please read our guide to building and testing.

Creating a local network

If you are building from source, or otherwise interested in running a local network, we have instructions on how to set up a new network for development purposes.

🐞 Bug reports & 🤔 feature requests

If you notice anything not behaving how you expected, or would like to make a suggestion / request for a new feature, please create a new issue and let us know.

💬 Community

The cheqd Discord is our primary chat channel for the open-source community, software developers, and node operators.

Please reach out to us there for discussions, help, and feedback on the project.

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