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gOuroboros is a powerful and versatile framework for building Go apps that interact with the Cardano blockchain. Quickly and easily write Go apps that communicate with Cardano nodes or manage blocks/transactions. Sync the blockchain from a local or remote node, query a local node for protocol parameters or UTxOs by address, and much more.

Leios in v0.179.0

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gOuroboros includes Leios as an experimental mini-protocol suite that is part of the CIP-0164 / Linear Leios work. In v0.179.0, the suite adds LeiosVotes, the new protocol with ID 20.

  • LeiosNotify handles block announcements and availability notifications.
  • LeiosFetch handles block and transaction retrieval.
  • LeiosVotes handles vote diffusion.

Learn more about the code documentation of gOuroboros here: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/blinklabs-io/gouroboros.

Leios is an experimental node to node protocol suite in gOuroboros. In v0.179.0, the suite adds LeiosVotes as protocol ID 20 as part of the CIP-0164 / Linear Leios work. LeiosNotify handles block announcements and availability notifications, LeiosFetch handles block and transaction retrieval, and LeiosVotes handles vote diffusion.

Leios is an experimental node to node protocol suite in gOuroboros. In v0.179.0, the suite adds LeiosVotes as protocol ID 20. The suite now splits responsibilities across LeiosNotify for block announcements and availability notifications, LeiosFetch for block and transaction retrieval, and LeiosVotes for vote diffusion as part of the CIP-0164 / Linear Leios work.