Blockcore Hub

Your portal into your decentralized digital life

The Blockcore Hub is the one-stop-app that citizens, merchants and others can get an overview of everything related to their data on the blockchain and related decentralized services. It is additionally a full features wallet app that supports multiple cryptocurrencies, such as City Coin (CITY), Bitcoin (BTC) and Stratis (STRAT).

Running the Blockcore Hub allows you to participate in staking of your coins, and help support the global network.

💿 Installation

You'll find the latest releases on the releases tab. Make sure you pick the latest release.

Auto Updates

Blockcore Hub have built in support for updates. They are not installed automatically, but you as a user are in control. On each startup, Blockcore Hub will check for a new version. Additionally if you have been running Blockcore Hub for a long time, you can perform a manual update check in the menu.

When an update is available, there will appear an icon on the menu. Click this icon, to see update information and perform a download and installation.

Windows

For Windows, we decided to only support 64-bit installations of Windows. If you are running a 32-bit installation, please let us know by reporting an issue to survey the market demand.

Simply download the latest win-x64.exe file from the releases page and run the installer. You might need to approve installation of unsigned installer. This will only be required until we have a signed release available.

Linux

For Linux, we decided to use the new AppImage installer format. This is included in a lot of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu.

Download the latest linux-x86_64.AppImage from the releases page.

Open a terminal, navigate to the download folder and make the .AppImage an executeable with the following command:

$ chmod a+x Blockcore.*.AppImage

Then you can simply run the installer:

$ ./Blockcore.*.AppImage

Mac

Mobile (Android/iOS)

Support for running Blockcore Hub on mobile devices is currently under development. To build and run the mobile version, you need to do the following.

Development environment

Make sure you have Node.JS install, and open a console promåt and navigate to the root of the repo.

# Install the packages if you have not yet.
npm install

Install tooling

# Run the script that will install tooling and add platforms. It installs Cordova globally, and add support for android, ios and browser.
npm run mobile-setup

Run with debug enabled

npm start

Build to mobile

Normally the "npm start" will build to the dist folder and launch Electron on the desktop. For mobile running, we do currently not have an auto-reload development setup. It's a manual build and run.

# This will build the Angular code and output to the mobile/www folder.
npm run mobile-build

# This will launch the web browser, or you can use "mobile-android" or "mobile-ios".
npm run mobile-browser

Blockchain Node

You have two options to run a node during development. Either you can start one manually and choose the option Manual from the mode selection on startup. The other option is to choose Custom and pick Blockcore.MultiNode.dll or Blockcore.MultiNode.exe.

Download the latest multinode from here: https://github.com/block-core/blockcore-nodes/releases

See example for local development:

Contribution

If you're interested in being a contributor and want to get involved in development of Blockcore and Blockcore Hub, get started by reading these:

License

MIT @ Blockcore
MIT @ City Chain Foundation
MIT @ Stratisplatform

psavva / blockcore-hub