Scorex Lagonaki = Scorex + Permacoin + Simplest Transactions = Public Testnet

Scorex is fully open (open-sourced under public domain license) modular blockchain framework: https://github.com/ScorexProject/Scorex . Modular means you can swap a consensus or transactional part of a blockchain system or add a new p2p protocol as easy as possible. The project is supported by IOHK company (http://iohk.io/).

To prove that the framework is indeed modular we have implemented few modules: Proof-of-Stake consensus, Permacoin implementation, and simplest transactional module with just tokens transfers from one pubkey to another(the only one kind of transactional modules unfortunately).

Permacoin is a consensus protocol based on non-interactive Proof-of-Retrievability scheme for a static dataset. Paper is made by Miller/Shi/Juels/Katz/Parno: http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/permacoin.pdf .

We are launching first testnet release called Lagonaki. Lagonaki = Scorex + Permacoin + SimplestTransactions

Lagonaki Debian package and sources: https://github.com/ScorexProject/Lagonaki
Testnet seed node API is there: http://23.94.190.226:9081/

You can also run Lagonaki in a Docker(set wallet seed & wallet password in settings.json). Readme is in Scorex repository(you can temporarily run Lagonaki from there): https://github.com/ScorexProject/Scorex .

I'm filling wiki pages at the moment.

Please contribute by testing! We are also looking for contributors. In particular, it would be amazing to see Bitcoin and Ethereum-like transactional modules (possible by reusing BitcoinJ/EthereumJ code I guess). And please join developers maillist: https://groups.io/g/scorex-dev .