Welcome to Guardian!

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What is Guardian?

Guardian is a modern economic system based on cryptography and blockchain technology. The Guardian multi-chain blockchain platform with a unique parent - side chain architecture. The security of the whole network is provided by the parent Guardian blockchain while the interoperable side chains have all the rich functionality. This elegant design and access to hybrid user permissioning capabilities are the key to the flexibility necessary for a variety of use cases and opens the door towards mainstream adoption of blockchain technology. Not only that - Guardian is created with scalability in mind and solves many existing industry problems such as blockchain bloat, single token dependency and the need for easily customizable-yet-compatible blockchain solutions.

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With Guardian, you can manage and interact with:

• your assets
• your businesses
• your customers

in such a way that no trusted third parties are required anymore.

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Get it!

• pre-packaged - https://www.guardian.nordicenergy.io/
• dependencies:
• general - Java 8
• Ubuntu - http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/install-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-via-ppa.html
• Debian - http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-in-debian.html
• FreeBSD - pkg install openjdk8
• repository - https://github.com/nordicenergy/guardian-proof-of-stake-platform.git

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Run it!

• click on the Guardian icon, or start from the command line:
• Unix: ./start.sh
• Mac: ./run.command
• Window: run.bat
• wait for the JavaFX wallet window to open on platforms without JavaFX, open http://localhost:27876/ in a browser

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Compile it!

• if necessary with: ./compile.sh
• you need jdk-8 as well

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Improve it!

• we love pull requests
• we love issues (resolved ones actually ;-) )
• in any case, make sure you leave your ideas at GitHub
• assist others on the issue tracker
• review existing code and pull requests
• cf. coding guidelines in DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.md

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Troubleshooting the Guardian Software

• How to Stop the Guardian Server?

  • click on Guardian Stop icon, or run ./stop.sh
  • or if started from command line, ctrl+c or close the console window

• UI Errors or Stacktraces?

  • report on GitHub

• Permissions Denied?

  • no spaces and only latin characters in the path to the Guardian installation directory
  • known jetty issue

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Further Reading

• in this repository:

  • USERS-GUIDE.md
  • DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.md
  • OPERATORS-GUIDE.md

• in the wiki:

  • https://guardian.nordicenergy.io/docs/Getting_started

• on the forums:

  • https://forum.nordicenergy.co/ (under contruction)

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