suhasagg/crescent

⛓️ Crescent Network, Expanding DeFi capabilities through InterBlockchain Technology 🌙

 

Expanding DeFi capabilities through InterBlockchain Technology

What is Crescent Network?

Crescent Network is a DeFi Hub in Cosmos ecosystem with a goal of empowering users’ digital assets for maximizing their financial returns while managing associated risks in the most efficient way by providing innovative and sophisticated DeFi products. In the base layer, Crescent core has the following unique characteristics.

• Hybrid DEX: a combination of Automated Market Maker (AMM) and Order Book models.
• Ranged Pool: next generation Automated Market Maker that increases capital efficiency. Liquidity is allocated within a predefined price range.
• Batch Execution : all deposits, withdrawals, and orders are accumulated in a batch and they are fairly executed at the same time.
• Novel DeFi products are on the way!

Installation

Use binaries

Download a pre-built binary for your operating system. You can find the latest binaries in this releases page.

Build from source

Step 1. Install Golang

Go version 1.18 or higher is required.

If you haven't already, install Go by following the installation guide in the official docs. Make sure that your GOPATH and GOBIN environment variables are properly set up.

Step 2. Get source code

Use git to retrieve Crescent Core from the official repository and checkout latest release, which will install the crescentd binary.

git clone https://github.com/crescent-network/crescent.git
cd crescent && git checkout release/v4.0.x
make install

Step 3. Verify your installation

Verify the commit hash to see if you have installed crescentd correctly.

crescentd version --long

Dependency

Crescent core uses a fork of cosmos-sdk and ibc-go. If you would like to know which ones customized from the original cosmos-sdk and ibc-go, please reference the release notes in the respective repository.

Requirement	Notes
cosmos-sdk (forked)	v1.1.4-sdk-0.45.10
ibc-go (forked)	v3.4.0-crescent-v4-2

Documentation

The documentation is available in docs directory. If you are a developer interested in technical specification, go to each x/{module}'s spec directory.

• Crescent Official Docs
• Swagger API Docs

Community

• Official Website
• Medium Blog
• Discord
• Telegram
• Twitter

Contributing

Crescent is a public and open-source blockchain protocol. We welcome contributions from everyone. If you are interested in contributing to Crescent Core, please review our CONTRIBUTING guide. Thank you to all those who have contributed to Crescent Core.

License

This software is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Read more about it here.