Koto is fork of Zcash which is an implementation of the "Zerocash" protocol. Based on Bitcoin's code, Zcash intends to offer a far higher standard of privacy through a sophisticated zero-knowledge proving scheme that preserves confidentiality of transaction metadata. More technical details are available in our Protocol Specification.
This software is the Koto client. It downloads and stores the entire history of Koto transactions; depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process could take a day or more once the blockchain has reached a significant size.
See important security warnings on the Security Information page.
Koto is experimental and a work-in-progress. Use at your own risk.
This release is considered deprecated 16 weeks after the release day. There is an automatic deprecation shutdown feature which will halt the node some time after this 16-week period. The automatic feature is based on block height.
Please see our user guide for joining the main Koto network.
- 📘 See the documentation at the Koto Wiki for help and more information.
- 📨 Ask for help on the Koto forum.
- 💬 Join our community on Discord
Participation in the Koto project is subject to a Code of Conduct.
Build Koto along with most dependencies from source by running the following command:
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)
For license information see the file COPYING.