Developer Update | February 14, 2025
Tari is the L1 protocol powered by you.
Proof of work, beautiful apps
anyone can use, and an
ingenious app platform to put all
of its power in your hands.
What is Tari?
Tari is a highly versatile blockchain protocol built in Rust. It is ultra-high performance, infinitely scalable, open source, and has unique confidentiality features that keep users safe and enable vast new use cases.
Built for Tinkerers
Tari Tinkerers will be able to build never-before-seen applications using Tari building blocks.
By using combinations of templates to create custom rulesets quickly and easily, tinkerers will be
able to unlock a new world of business possibilities while delivering stunningly beautiful user experiences.
Highly Useful
Tari has all the right ingredients to be the most useful protocol for digital assets on earth.
High performance, easy to integrate with, stable, well documented, open-source, secure, and private by default.
Dive into how it works.
First Principles Focused
Confidentiality is a prerequisite for useful applications.
No business wants everyone to know what every customer pays or who their best customers are. And no one wants every financial decision
to be a scarlet letter. Through supporting meaningful confidentiality features, Tari will meet users where they are, keep them safe, and enable vast new use cases.
Community Driven
The Tari community is comprised of many types of amazing collaborators.
Imagine a broad spectrum of brilliant creators, builders, advocates, and philosophers all working towards a single goal: to build the most useful decentralized platform that empowers anyone to create digitally scarce
things people love.
Want to join the party? Everyone is invited.
Learn More About the Tari Protocol and Ecosystem
RFC Docs
The Tari RFCs (request for comments) are the starting point for the Tari project. Ideas that start as discussions on IRC are formalized here before implementation by the Tari community. Have feedback about anything you see here? Please submit an issue on Github.
Tari Labs University
The goal for Tari Labs University (TLU) is to create the best free, open source educational resource for the many technologies that comprise blockchain systems. Current topics include Schnorr signatures, scriptless scripts, bulletproofs, pure-Rust elliptic curve cryptography, MimbleWimble, merged-mining, confidential assets, and more. Have feedback or think an explanation could be improved? Have ideas for new content? Please contribute to TLU on Github.
Tari Aurora
Download a community developed, reference-design mobile wallet app called Tari Aurora, to send and receive testnet Tari (tXTR). Using and contributing to Aurora is a great way to play with the Tari testnet and learn more about what makes Tari special.
Tari Base Node
Run a testnet base node to help test network stability, security, and mine testnet Tari (tXTR). Check out the Getting Started section to learn how to run a base node and start mining.
Frequently Asked Questions
Explore a wide variety of answers for common questions asked by the Tari community.
View the FAQMobile Wallet
Meet Tari Aurora. Aurora is a simple, beautiful Tari wallet developed by the Tari community.
Aurora is being developed as a reference-design. Creators and developers can use the Aurora libraries and codebase as a starting point for developing their own Tari wallets and applications. In its production-ready state, Aurora will be a fully functional Tari wallet focused on Tari as a digital currency.
Block Explorer
Dive into the current and historical state of the Tari blockchain through the block explorer. Tari has confidentiality features, so Tari users are kept safe. After all, you cannot use an online tool to look up someone's bank balance, can you?
Tari Block Explorer
Downloads
Run Minotari Suite
For more advanced users who want to configure the Minotari tool-suite (node, wallet, miners) exactly according to their tastes, download the Minotari Suite binaries.
Download Tari Suite
Get Involved
The Tari community is filled with amazing contributors who care about creating new ways to tell stories, and freedom enhancing software. Join us.
Contribute to Tari
- Contribute to the development of the Tari protocol
- Help the Tari community expand the content and reach of Tari Labs University (TLU). The goal for TLU is to become the best, free, open source resource for learning about the technologies that make up the Tari protocol
Join the Discussion
The Tari community exists on a growing number of platforms and planets.
Discord
The primary Tari community hangout
Substack
A curated weekly newsletter of protocol updates
Telegram
A slightly noisier place to discuss Tari
IRC #tari
Mirror of the Tari #dev discord channel
Announcements and fun
Conversations regarding privacy, cryptography, the Tari protocol, traditions, philosophy, and anything else that is of interest to the community
Get Started
Tari exists because creators, entrepreneurs, and developers want it to.
A goal of the Tari community is for developers of any skill level to be able to quickly build useful applications that leverage the Tari network and contribute to the Tari project.
The best way to get started is to start running a Tari node. A Tari node is the basic building block of the Tari blockchain and network. Nodes perform the critical functions of maintaining the ledger. Without nodes, there is
no network.
Why Run a Node
Every new node increases the size of the Tari network and contributes to network security. There are many things that you can do with the Tari base node client:
- Mine testnet Tari (tXTR)
- Transact using the CLI wallet
- Query and analyze chain data using your local copy of the ledger
- Build applications that leverage chain data, such as block explorers, analytics tools, and more
- Experiment with custom transaction types, and learn the fundamentals of how Tari works
How to Run Your Own Node
It’s incredibly easy to set up your own Tari base node. There are two ways to accomplish this:
- Download the binaries and follow the installation instructions on GitHub.
- Build your own set of binaries from the base node source code by following these instructions on the GitHub repo
Have questions? The Tari community prides itself on being open and inclusive. There are no dumb questions. The best places to engage with the Tari developer community are on IRC or Discord#dev.
Spending testnet Tari (tXTR)
What can you do with tXTR besides experimenting with transactions? You can “spend” your hard-earned, infinite supply, fake Tari on exclusive one-of-a-kind items in the TTL (Tari Testnet Limited) store*. Everything in the store is denominated in tXTR (and is therefore free) except for shipping costs. Check it out here and let folks know what you think on Discord or IRC.
* tXTR has no monetary value and cannot be exchanged for cash, cash equivalent, or other tokens or cryptocurrencies.
Spend tXTR on Real Exclusive Stuff
Visit the Store
Explore the Protocol
Read discussions, learn how it's built, and view our most recent updates to the Tari protocol.
Updates
The latest updates from developers contributing to the Tari protocol.
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Lessons
The Tari protocol is written entirely in Rust. The Tari community is a huge fan of Rust due to its performance characteristics and memory and thread safety guarantees. A great way to experiment with Tari libraries is to explore our lessons and dive into the code.
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Setting Up Your Development Environment
How to get your system setup to start working with Tari projects
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Protocol Discussions
Protocol discussions are an archive of public discussions that the Tari community has over various aspects of the protocol design space along with potential applications of the Tari blockchain. Subscribe to our newsletter to learn about our latest discussion topic and time.
View all Discussions
June 12, 2020
Tari Proof of Work Discussion
- What does the proof-of-work algorithm for Tari mainnet look like?
Make Tari Better
Tari will always be a work in progress.
The Tari community believes that it needs to continually improve and evolve to achieve its stated goal: to be the most useful decentralized platform that empowers anyone to create digitally scarce things people love. How does it improve? Because people choose to dedicate their time, creativity, and brilliance to working on the project.
Why Should You Consider Contributing to a Project like Tari?
Sharpen your skills
Sharpen your skills. Want to learn about distributed systems, cryptography, production Rust systems, web 3, decentralized finance, or digital assets? Contributing to the Tari project is a great way to improve your skills. The Tari community is open, inclusive, and helpful.
You want to use Tari in your application
Contributing to the Tari project is a great way to make a meaningful impact, advocate for features you think the community should consider, and fix bugs you find along the way.
You care about building useful things and solving real user problems
The Tari community believes that the world is out of balance. The internet is an incredible blessing for society, but there are tradeoffs. One of those tradeoffs is confidentiality. The only way to solve this imbalance is to build new layers of the internet that have meaningful confidentiality features and keep users safe. The Tari network will be such a layer. Want to learn more about the decisions the community has made so far? Please visit the Tari GitHub repos, and connect with us on Discord or IRC. The Tari community is low ego, doesn’t believe in not invented here syndrome, and believes that great ideas can come from anywhere. We’d love to hear your feedback and collaborate with you to make Tari the most useful protocol in the world.
What Makes Tari Unique?
What sets Tari apart is the Tari community's relentless drive to create a protocol that turns confidentiality features as an advantage to enable tinkerers and creators to build more useful applications. Through composable templates that make it easier for developers to create successful applications, beautiful user experience patterns, and reference designs that help developers obfuscate complexity, the Tari protocol is built for the real world.
Get Involved
Tari is an ecosystem of projects. Each project varies in complexity and sophistication. Some projects are easy to get started contributing to, and others have a meaningful learning curve. The common thread that runs through all Tari projects is that we (the Tari community) are united in making Tari useful, conducting ourselves in a low ego manner, and warmly welcoming everyone regardless of skill level or background. Projects that need your help and support:
Tari Aurora
Aurora is a native reference design wallet application for iOS and Android. The core of Aurora is lib_tariwallet, a highly efficient and extensible library written in Rust with C-bindings for JNI and Swift codebases. Contributing to Aurora is a great way to learn how Rust functions in mobile environments, and to how end users will interact with the Tari digital currency, and network in the future. Contribute to Tari Aurora wallet application for iOS and Android.
Tari Labs University
The goal for Tari Labs University (TLU) is to create the best free, open source educational resource for the many technologies that comprise blockchain systems. If you are interested in researching cryptography such as bulletproofs to scriptless scripts and blockchain technologies such as layer-2 scaling to merge mining, contributing to TLU is your calling.
Rust Tutorials
One of the newest editions to the Tari ecosystem, the Rust tutorials, enables developers to experiment with Tari Rust libraries in a browser environment without downloading anything. Try your hand at creating something new with the Tari Rust libraries and sharpen your Rust skills.
Tari Base Layer
The main Tari repository comprises all the main crates that make up the backbone of the Tari base Layer. It's all written in Rust and includes: the base node application, the blockchain consensus code and database, the Tari communications stack, and Tari wallet.
Bug Hunting
Found a bug? If it's a noncritical bug, please report it as a GitHub issue here. Thank you for helping to make the Tari project more robust, and reliable.
The Beginning of Your Journey
The Tari project is undergoing continuous evolution. As a result there are always issues to tackle and improvements to make. The Tari community makes an effort to maintain a number of open issues that are a good place to start for new contributors. These issues are labeled in Tari project repos as “good first issue” and are usually refreshed every few months. Have questions? Please feel free to ask any question you have in #tari-dev on Libera.Chat, or on Discord#dev.
Protocol Issues
Oftentimes new contributors start with documentation related issues that tend to be quick wins and help them understand the protocol in greater detail before moving towards test writing and focusing on core protocol code. But feel free to choose your own adventure
Once you’ve found an issue you wish to pursue, stop by #tari-dev on Libera.Chat and someone will assign you the issue in GitHub. Before you start, please read the project contributing guidelines which includes a style guide and a useful PR template. Thank you for your contributions to the Tari project. Together we can make useful freedom enhancing software that everyone wants to use.
Developer Community
The Tari community operates across various platforms, each with its own character and focus areas.
Discord
The primary Tari community hangout
Substack
A curated weekly newsletter of protocol updates
Telegram
A slightly noisier place to discuss Tari
IRC #tari
Mirror of the Tari #dev discord channel
Announcements and fun
Conversations regarding privacy, cryptography, the Tari protocol, traditions, philosophy, and anything else that is of interest to the community
Documentation
The Tari RFCs (request for comments) are the starting point for the Tari project. Ideas that start as discussions on IRC are formalized here before implementation by the Tari community.
Request For Comment Documentation
Check out the Tari RFC docs to dive into the features and functionality of the Tari ecosystem, and learn how the Tari community makes decisions.
RFC DocsTari for Creators
What is a Tari digital asset? It is a programmable canvas for telling stories.
It can be a legendary collectible like the sword of Excalibur, shrouded in a misty forest waiting for the right person to discover it and wield it in battle. Or it can be a coveted ticket that grants access to a sold-out concert, and then access to a personal message from an iconic artist. It can also be a token that represents the economic unit for a new virtual world.
A Tari digital asset can be truly digitally scarce. Someone can prove that they own it in a verifiable manner, and trust that it cannot be easily copied. They can be as secure in their ownership of an asset as they are about any material thing they possess. And a Tari digital asset can have rules that stay with it for as long as it matters. For example, every time an asset changes hands, the creator may choose to receive a fraction of the transaction. The Tari community is designing the Tari protocol to support all of these use cases and more.
How does Tari help creators?
- Create new, permanent revenue streams around your creations. For example, earn revenue every time your creation is transferred from one party to another
- Turn your creations into programmable, evolving keys that can unlock anything now or in the future. For example, a creation issued today can unlock access, an experience, or a new creation in the future
- Build deeper connections with your fans by enabling them to truly own your creations while retaining influence and opportunity via rulesets
- Create digital things that stand the test of time. As long as the Tari blockchain exists, records of your creation will persist
- Use creations issued on Tari in any application from games, to ticketing systems, to exchanges, and beyond. Tari is permissionless and open source.
Why use Tari?
- Purpose-built for creating digitally scarce things that people love
- Scalable to support many millions of users and many thousands of transactions per second
- Default-confidential to protect sensitive business data and that of your users.
- Well documented and easy to integrate with many commonly used platforms and technologies. All Tari software is opensource
- An inclusive community that cares deeply about each other, freedom, our world, and what you are creating
Learn More
The best place to start is by engaging with the Tari community on Discord or IRC. We would love to hear about what you are working on, and how Tari can best support you.