This repo contains most notably:
- Go code for interfacing with the drand networks through both HTTP and Gossipsub
- a client CLI tool to fetch and verify drand beacons from the various available sources in your terminal
- a gossipsub relay to relay drand beacons on gossipsub
Prior to drand V2 release, the drand client code lived in the drand/drand repo. Since its V2 release, the drand daemon code aims at being more minimalist and having as few dependencies as possible. Most notably this meant removing the libp2p code that was exclusively used for Gossip relays and Gossip client, and also trimming down the amount of HTTP-related code.
From now on, this repo is meant to provide the Go Client code to interact with drand, query drand beacons and verify them through either the HTTP or the Gossip relays.
Note that drand does not provide public gRPC endpoints since ~2020, therefore the gRPC client code has been moved to the internal package of the relays (to allow relays to directly interface with a working daemon using gRPC).
There are relatively few changes to the public APIs of the client code and simply using the drand/go-clients/http packages should be enough.
We recommend using go-doc to see the usage documentation and examples.
The Result interface now follows the Protobuf getter format:
Result.Round() -> Result.GetRound()
Result.Randomness() -> Result.GetRandomness()
Result.Signature() -> Result.GetSignature()
Result.PreviousSignature() -> Result.GetPreviousSignature()
meaning PublicRandResponse now satisfies directly the Result interface.
The HTTP client now returns a concrete type and doesn't need to be cast to a HTTP client to use e.g. SetUserAgent.
The client option WithVerifiedResult was renamed WithTrustedResult, to properly convey its function.
Note also that among other packages you might be using in the github.com/drand/drand/v2 packages,
the crypto.GetSchemeByIDWithDefault function was renamed crypto.GetSchemeByID;
and the Beacon struct now lives in the github.com/drand/drand/v2/common package rather than in the chain one.
This project is licensed using the Permissive License Stack which means that all contributions are available under the most permissive commonly-used licenses, and dependent projects can pick the license that best suits them.
Therefore, the project is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT terms:
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) 89