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How Dassie works, how to run a node and use its wallet, how to build an app on it, and how it is built. Pick the door that fits you, or search.

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Newest release

Dassie 0.4.0

A node's place in the network now follows the core it works out from the signed link states, not just whether it has a hostname. Every node starts in the periphery, a node with a hostname too, and becomes a core node once its uplinks have checked it: how long it has been in good standing, its heartbeats and its clock, and that it answers at its URL over QUIC and over HTTPS with a publicly issued certificate. The bootstrap nodes are core from the start. A node being promoted is paid beneath its core peers until it has been core for a while, and keeps taking packets at those addresses afterwards.

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  • Start here

    What Dassie is, which setup fits you, a first node and a first payment.

  • Concepts

    How Dassie works, in plain words. Each page links to the spec for the full reasons.

  • Use your wallet

    The owner's tasks in the web wallet, one page each, in the order a new owner meets them.

  • Desktop app

    Your node in a window on your own computer: no server, no domain.

  • Run a node

    For a server's operator: install, configure, watch, update, back up.

  • Run network services

    Roles beyond a node: hub validators and founders, market makers, front doors.

  • Build on Dassie

    For app developers: pay and get paid through a node with standard Interledger tools.

  • Reference

    Facts to look up: commands, variables, files, schemes and releases, checked against the code.

  • Project

    How Dassie is built and looks, and where to get help.

A kopje of granite blocks against the sun, in veld grass; one dassie climbs its slab, one keeps lookout on top inside the sun, and one sleeps on the next rock; on a wide screen, a pair sits on a kopje to the left