Particl Desktop

"Particl is an open source project that aims to restore the balance of privacy on the internet."

Table of Contents

• About
  • Download
• Contribute
• Getting started
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Development
  • Packaging
• Troubleshooting
• Licence

About

Particl Desktop is our feature-rich flagship client, recommended for most users for interacting with Particl network.

We provide a decentralized privacy platform with a suite of tools to enhance your online privacy:

• An anonymous cryptocurrency – send and receive the PART cryptocurrency without revealing the transaction history
• End-to-end encrypted messaging – communicate in a secure and decentralized manner without revealing your IP address
• A private marketplace – buy and sell goods without leaving a trace (WIP on market branch)
• Community governance – anyone can submit proposals to Particl network via decentralized voting & governance (WIP on market branch)

This repository is the user interface that works in combination with our particl-core.

Download

Contribute

For contributing to Particl Desktop, please read our Contributing Guidelines first.

Join us in #particl-dev:matrix.org on Riot for more info and/or assistance.

Getting started

Requirements

• Node.js® 6.4—7.10
• git
• yarn

Installation

git clone https://github.com/particl/particl-desktop
cd particl-desktop
yarn install

Development

Note: most recent development happens on market branch

1. Run ng serve to start the dev server and keep it running
2. In another terminal window, run yarn run start:electron:dev -testnet --devtools to start Particl Desktop on testnet (daemon will be updated and launched automatically)
   • -testnet – for running on testnet (omit for running the client on mainnet)
   • -reindex – reindexes the blockchain (in case you're stuck)
   • --devtools – automatically opens Developer Tools on client launch

Interact with particl-core daemon

You can directly interact with the daemon ran by the Electron version.

./particl-cli -testnet getblockchaininfo

Packaging

Windows-only requirements

Building for Windows requires the 32-bit libraries to be available:

sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
sudo apt-get install g++-multilib

Packaging commands

• yarn run package:win – Windows
• yarn run package:mac – macOS
• yarn run package:linux – Linux

Troubleshooting

Development issues

Blockchain syncing stuck

Restart the app with -reindex flag:

yarn run start:electron:dev -testnet --devtools -reindex

Marketplace fails to load

Delete marketplace database folder and restart app:

• Windows: %appdata%\particl-market\testnet\
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Particl/particl-market/testnet/
• Linux: ~/.particl-market/testnet/

Other issues

See our Particl Wiki for most common problems or join #particlhelp:matrix.org on Riot for community help.

Licence

Particl Desktop is released under GNU General Public License v2.0.