Decentralised financial instruments in a protocol build on top of the Bitcoin blockchain

Counterparty is a protocol for the creation and use of decentralised financial instruments such as asset exchanges, contracts for difference and dividend payments.

The contents of this repository, counterpartyd, constitute the reference implementation of the protocol.

The Counterparty documentation may be found at http://counterparty.rtd.org.

• Python 3
• Python 3 packages: SQLite3, Requests, AppDirs, Colorama, PrettyTable
• Bitcoind

• Make sure that you are running Bitcoind (or another compatible Bitcoin client) locally and with transaction indexing and the JSON‐RPC interface enabled (options -txindex and -server).
  • Right now, Counterparty should only be used on testnet, for which the command‐line option -testnet should given too.
• Run python3 counterpartyd.py in one terminal.
• In another terminal, run any of counterparty’s other functions (e.g. python3 counterpartyd.py send or python3 counterpartyd.py order).
• Test with py.test test.py.