Cuprate, a modular Monero node written in Rust.
See the code
An alternative Monero node implementation.
(work-in-progress)
Cuprate is an effort to create an alternative Monero node implementation in Rust.
It is able to independently validate Monero consensus rules, providing a layer of security and redundancy for the Monero network.
See https://user.cuprate.org for more details.
Cuprate is currently a work-in-progress; documentation will be changing/unfinished.
Cuprate maintains various documentation books:
| Book | Description |
|---|---|
| Monero's protocol book | Documents the Monero protocol |
| Cuprate's user book | Practical user-guide for using cuprated |
To build Cuprate from source code, see https://user.cuprate.org/getting-started/source.html.
For a detailed list of all crates, see: https://architecture.cuprate.org/appendix/crates.html.
For crate (library) documentation, see: https://doc.cuprate.org. This site holds documentation for Cuprate's crates and all dependencies. All Cuprate crates start with cuprate_, for example: cuprate_database.
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Cuprate has a responsible vulnerability disclosure policy, see SECURITY.md.
The binaries/ directory is licensed under AGPL-3.0, everything else is licensed under MIT.
See LICENSE for more details.
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Cuprate, a modular Monero node written in Rust.
See the code
An alternative Monero node implementation.
(work-in-progress)
Cuprate is an effort to create an alternative Monero node implementation in Rust.
It is able to independently validate Monero consensus rules, providing a layer of security and redundancy for the Monero network.
See https://user.cuprate.org for more details.
Cuprate is currently a work-in-progress; documentation will be changing/unfinished.
Cuprate maintains various documentation books:
| Book | Description |
|---|---|
| Monero's protocol book | Documents the Monero protocol |
| Cuprate's user book | Practical user-guide for using cuprated |
To build Cuprate from source code, see https://user.cuprate.org/getting-started/source.html.
For a detailed list of all crates, see: https://architecture.cuprate.org/appendix/crates.html.
For crate (library) documentation, see: https://doc.cuprate.org. This site holds documentation for Cuprate's crates and all dependencies. All Cuprate crates start with cuprate_, for example: cuprate_database.
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Cuprate has a responsible vulnerability disclosure policy, see SECURITY.md.
The binaries/ directory is licensed under AGPL-3.0, everything else is licensed under MIT.
See LICENSE for more details.
608 followers · starred Aug 2026
49 followers · starred Aug 2026
117 followers · starred Jun 2023
14 followers · starred Sep 2026
