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* Expose priv validators for use in testing * Generalize block header validation test past height 1 * Remove ineffectual assignment * Remove redundant SaveState call * Reorder comment for clarity * Use the block executor ApplyBlock function instead of implementing a stripped-down version of it * Remove commented-out code * Remove unnecessary test The required tests already appear to be implemented (implicitly) through the TestValidateBlockHeader test. * Allow for catching of specific error types during TestValidateBlockCommit * Make return error testable * Clean up and add TestValidateBlockCommit code * Fix formatting * Extract function to create a new mock test app * Update comment for clarity * Fix comment * Add skeleton code for evidence-related test * Allow for addressing priv val by address * Generalize test beyond a single validator * Generalize TestValidateBlockEvidence past first height * Reorder code to clearly separate tests and utility code * Use a common constant for stop height for testing in state/validation_test.go * Refactor errors to resemble existing conventions * Fix formatting * Extract common helper functions Having the tests littered with helper functions makes them less easily readable imho, so I've pulled them out into a separate file. This also makes it easier to see what helper functions are available during testing, so we minimize the chance of duplication when writing new tests. * Remove unused parameter * Remove unused parameters * Add field keys * Remove unused height constant * Fix typo * Fix incorrect return error * Add field keys * Use separate package for tests This refactors all of the state package's tests into a state_test package, so as to keep any usage of the state package's internal methods explicit. Any internal methods/constants used by tests are now explicitly exported in state/export_test.go * Refactor: extract helper function to make, validate, execute and commit a block * Rename state function to makeState * Remove redundant constant for number of validators * Refactor mock evidence registration into TestMain * Remove extraneous nVals variable * Replace function-level TODOs with file-level TODO and explanation * Remove extraneous comment * Fix linting issues brought up by GolangCI (pulled in from latest merge from develop)
Tendermint
Byzantine-Fault Tolerant State Machines. Or Blockchain, for short.
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Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state transition machine - written in any programming language - and securely replicates it on many machines.
For protocol details, see the specification.
For detailed analysis of the consensus protocol, including safety and liveness proofs, see our recent paper, "The latest gossip on BFT consensus".
Releases
NOTE: The master branch is now an active development branch (starting with v0.32). Please, do not depend on it and
use releases instead.
Tendermint is being used in production in both private and public environments, most notably the blockchains of the Cosmos Network. However, we are still making breaking changes to the protocol and the APIs and have not yet released v1.0. See below for more details about versioning.
In any case, if you intend to run Tendermint in production, please contact us and join the chat.
Security
To report a security vulnerability, see our bug bounty program
For examples of the kinds of bugs we're looking for, see SECURITY.md
Minimum requirements
| Requirement | Notes |
|---|---|
| Go version | Go1.11.4 or higher |
Documentation
Complete documentation can be found on the website.
Install
See the install instructions
Quick Start
- Single node
- Local cluster using docker-compose
- Remote cluster using terraform and ansible
- Join the Cosmos testnet
Contributing
Please abide by the Code of Conduct in all interactions, and the contributing guidelines when submitting code.
Join the larger community on the forum and the chat.
To learn more about the structure of the software, watch the Developer Sessions and read some Architectural Decision Records.
Learn more by reading the code and comparing it to the specification.
Versioning
Semantic Versioning
Tendermint uses Semantic Versioning to determine when and how the version changes. According to SemVer, anything in the public API can change at any time before version 1.0.0
To provide some stability to Tendermint users in these 0.X.X days, the MINOR version is used to signal breaking changes across a subset of the total public API. This subset includes all interfaces exposed to other processes (cli, rpc, p2p, etc.), but does not include the in-process Go APIs.
That said, breaking changes in the following packages will be documented in the CHANGELOG even if they don't lead to MINOR version bumps:
- crypto
- types
- rpc/client
- config
- node
- libs
- bech32
- common
- db
- errors
- log
Exported objects in these packages that are not covered by the versioning scheme
are explicitly marked by // UNSTABLE in their go doc comment and may change at any
time without notice. Functions, types, and values in any other package may also change at any time.
Upgrades
In an effort to avoid accumulating technical debt prior to 1.0.0, we do not guarantee that breaking changes (ie. bumps in the MINOR version) will work with existing tendermint blockchains. In these cases you will have to start a new blockchain, or write something custom to get the old data into the new chain.
However, any bump in the PATCH version should be compatible with existing histories (if not please open an issue).
For more information on upgrading, see UPGRADING.md
Resources
Tendermint Core
For details about the blockchain data structures and the p2p protocols, see the Tendermint specification.
For details on using the software, see the documentation which is also hosted at: https://tendermint.com/docs/
Tools
Benchmarking and monitoring is provided by tm-bench and tm-monitor, respectively.
Their code is found here and these binaries need to be built seperately.
Additional documentation is found here.
Sub-projects
Applications
- Cosmos SDK; a cryptocurrency application framework
- Ethermint; Ethereum on Tendermint
- Many more