Pulsar - CometBFT-based Blockchain

Pulsar is a blockchain implementation based on CometBFT consensus engine.

Prerequisites

• Go 1.22 or higher
• Make

Quick Start

Build

make build

Initialize Node

make init

Start Node

make start

Reset (Clean all data)

make reset

Fresh Start (Reset + Init + Start)

make fresh

Architecture

The project follows a modular architecture inspired by Cosmos SDK:

• abci/ - ABCI application implementation
• cmd/pulsard/ - Node CLI commands
• build/ - Compiled binaries

Development

Install Dependencies

make deps

Run Tests

make test

Configuration

The node stores its configuration and data in ~/.pulsar/ by default:

• config/ - Configuration files
• data/ - Blockchain data

You can specify a custom home directory:

./build/pulsard init my-node --home /custom/path
./build/pulsard start --home /custom/path