castanedadiego / aiken

Cardano Smart Contracts

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A modern smart contract platform for Cardano

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QuickStart

Prerequisites

For now you'll need rust installed, see rustup.

Getting started

In case you have fresh installation of rustup you might need to do:

rustup install stable

$ cargo install --git https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken.git

$ aiken --help

Alternatively nix builds are available via flakes.

How to use

For more information please see the user manual.

Roadmap

Aiken defines its roadmap using Github Milestones. The roadmap isn't set in stone, but gives a high-level overview of where the project is headed for.

Contributing

Want to contribute? See CONTRIBUTING.md to know how.

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Note

The name comes from Howard Aiken, an American physicist and a pioneer in computing.