[Vds] is Based on Bitcoin's code, it intends to offer a far higher standard of privacy through a sophisticated zero-knowledge proving scheme that preserves confidentiality of transaction metadata. Technical details are available

This software is the Vds client. It downloads and stores the entire history of Vds 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 in doc/security-warnings.md.

Vds is unfinished and highly experimental. Use at your own risk.

This OpenSource version is for trading only.

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 time period. The automatic feature is based on block height and can be explicitly disabled.

We have a guide for joining the main Vds network:

Participation in the Vds project is subject to a Code of Conduct.

Build Vds along with most dependencies from source by running ./vcutil/build.sh. Currently only Linux is officially supported.

For license information see the file COPYING.