Farcaster is a cross-chain atomic swap protocol and implementation who allows to exchange Bitcoin and Monero in a peer-to-peer manner with anyone running a Farcaster node.
Our implementation is done in Rust 🦀 and uses electrum and monero nodes to interface with the blockchains. The easiest way to get started is to use our 🐋 Docker images, you can have a look how we create them here.
Have a look at the Node wiki to see how to install and run the node. 💡 You can even trade testnet coins on farcaster.dev to learn how it works!
If you have Rust and Docker installed on your machine you can run
# run a temporary Monero wallet RPC
docker run --rm -d -p 38083:38083 ghcr.io/farcaster-project/containers/monero-wallet-rpc:latest\
/usr/bin/monero-wallet-rpc --stagenet\
--disable-rpc-login --wallet-dir wallets\
--daemon-host stagenet.community.rino.io:38081\
--rpc-bind-ip 0.0.0.0 --rpc-bind-port 38083\
--confirm-external-bind
# install and launch your node
cargo install farcaster_node
farcasterdIn a new terminal you can now interact with your node through the cli with
swap-cli info
swap-cli take --help
Or check your browser at ui.farcaster.dev (First you need to activate grpc in your node config)
You are ready to take a deal!
If you want to know more about the specifications have a look at the 📜 RFCs and the Core library.
