Ixian Core

Ixian Core is the official SDK and foundation of the Ixian Platform. It provides the essential building blocks for decentralized, self-authenticated, post-quantum-secure communication and is the main component of all Ixian services and applications - including Ixian DLT, Ixian S2, Spixi, wallets, miners, and third-party applications.

With Ixian Core, developers can build secure-by-design applications without relying on third parties, central servers, or temporary trust systems.

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🚀 Why Ixian Platform?

The Ixian Platform redefines how devices and people connect: no passwords, no certificate authorities, no centralized bottlenecks. Instead, Ixian introduces cryptographic self-authentication, secure client discovery via cryptographic addresses, and post-quantum resilience, making it the foundation for future-ready communications and decentralized services.

Key Innovations

• 🧬 Self-authentication - Every user, device, or system proves its identity cryptographically
• 🌐 Presence-based Client Discovery - Lookup by cryptographic address, not IP or DNS, eliminating the need for SSL/TLS certificate authorities
• 🔒 Uncompromising Security - State-of-the-art AES and ChaCha20-Poly1305 dual encryption
• ⚛️ Post-Quantum Resilience - Hybrid RSA, ECDH, and ML-KEM (FIPS 203) key exchange ensures security well into the 2030s, 2040s, and beyond
• 🕊️ Massive Scalability (Starling) - Custom Starling presence scaling model enables efficient sector-based routing and effortless scaling to trillions of devices and IoT nodes
• ⛓️ Novel Consensus (PoCW) - Ixian's custom Proof of Collaborative Work rewards distributed validation through multi-signer consensus, combining security, fairness, and energy efficiency
• ♻️ Resilience by Design - Fully decentralized, fault-tolerant networking with no downtime or single points of failure
• 🌍 Human-Friendly Identities (IXI Names) - Register and use names like 'alice.ixi' to map to Ixian addresses, IPs, or metadata - decentralized and trustless, like DNS without central authorities

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🧩 Features of Ixian Core

Ixian Core provides reusable primitives and libraries for building dApps and infrastructure across the Ixian Platform:

• Client Discovery (Ixian Presence System)

  • Lookup by cryptographic address, not IP or DNS
  • Signed presence packets with timestamps + contact endpoints
  • Expiry + keep-alive cycle ensures accurate, fresh status
  • Backed by Ixian's sector-based model (Starling) for massive scalability

• IXI Names

  • Register human-friendly names (e.g., 'alice.ixi') for a chosen duration (like domain names)
  • Attach metadata such as Ixian addresses, IPs, service endpoints
  • Fully decentralized, no central registry

• Wallets & Addresses

  • IXI wallet generation and management
  • Address derivation and utilities

• Transactions & Blocks

  • Transaction creation, validation, and inclusion logic

  • Block structures, headers, and signatures

  • Primitives for Ixian's Proof of Collaborative Work (PoCW) consensus

    • Core provides hashing, signatures, and PoW validation tools

• Cryptography

  • AES and ChaCha20-Poly1305 dual encryption
  • Hybrid key exchange: RSA, ECDH, ML-KEM (PQC/post-quantum ready)
  • Hashing, key derivation, Base58 encoding

• Networking

  • Ixian P2P protocol primitives
  • Peer discovery and sector/relay architecture
  • JSON REST server for integration

• Streaming & Messaging

  • Encrypted messaging and streaming session support
  • Offline push messages
  • Building blocks for S2's presence-based communication layer

• Utilities

  • Logging and monitoring
  • Platform-specific helpers (Windows/Linux/Mobile)
  • Time synchronization

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📚 Documentation

• Developer Documentation: https://docs.ixian.io

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🔗 Related Repositories & Examples

• Ixian-Core - SDK and shared functionality
• Ixian-DLT - Blockchain ledger and consensus layer
• Ixian-S2 - Peer-to-peer streaming and messaging overlay
• Spixi - Secure messenger and wallet app
• Ixian-LiteWallet - Lightweight CLI wallet
• QuIXI - Quick integration toolkit for Ixian Platform

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🌱 Development Branches

• master - Stable, production-ready releases
• development - Active development, may contain unfinished features

For reproducible builds, always use the latest release tag on master.

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from developers, integrators, and builders.

1. Fork this repository
2. Create a feature branch ('feature/my-change')
3. Commit with clear, descriptive messages
4. Open a Pull Request for review

Join the community on Discord.

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🌍 Community & Links

• Website: www.ixian.io
• Docs: docs.ixian.io
• Discord: discord.gg/pdJNVhv
• Telegram: t.me/ixian_official_ENG
• Bitcointalk: Forum Thread
• GitHub: ixian-platform

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📜 License

Licensed under the MIT License.