What is ReddCoin?
ReddCoin is a Bitcoin-family cryptocurrency designed for tipping, social payments, and everyday transactions. It uses Proof-of-Stake Velocity (PoSV) — a consensus mechanism that rewards both the amount you hold and how actively you move it. The longer coins sit unused, the less they earn; this favours circulation over hoarding. The chain has been running since 2014, with the Proof-of-Work era ending at block 260,800.
The codebase descends from Bitcoin Core, so most of what you know about Bitcoin carries over — addresses, transactions, scripts, the P2P network, the JSON-RPC interface. The differences are called out where they matter: PoSV consensus, network parameters, address versions, and the ReddCoin-specific RPC calls. If a term in these docs isn't familiar, the Glossary cross-references every one.
Protocol Reference
How the ReddCoin protocol works — blocks, transactions, the P2P network, PoSV staking — plus the full JSON-RPC reference and worked examples.
User & Operator Guides
Hands-on guides for running a full node, setting up a wallet, configuring staking, and operating ReddCoin infrastructure.
Library API Reference
Auto-generated API docs for reddcoinjs-lib and the bitcore-*-redd library family. Built from source, so they never drift from the code.
Contribute
How to help shape ReddCoin — running staking nodes, working on Core or the libraries, improving these docs, translating, and joining the community.
Choose your path
Pick the entry point that matches what you're trying to do:
- Running a ReddCoin node, setting up a wallet, configuring staking. Start with the Operator Guides and the staking page. The guides cover system requirements, installation, initial block download, and PoSV configuration; the protocol page explains the consensus mechanism behind it.
- Writing code that talks to ReddCoin.
reddcoinjs-libcovers JavaScript and TypeScript. The JSON-RPC reference lists every call exposed byreddcoind, with parameters, return shapes, and curl examples. The Examples section ties calls together with end-to-end walkthroughs (raw transactions, payment processing, P2P messages). Bitcore-family libraries arrive in a later phase. - Understanding how the chain works under the hood. The Protocol Developer Guide walks through blocks, transactions, the P2P network, mining (historical), wallets, and PoSV. The Reference section gives the on-the-wire formats. Kimoto Gravity Well is worth a separate look if you're curious about difficulty retargeting.
- Helping shape the project. How to contribute covers running staking nodes, working on Core or the libraries, improving these docs, translating, testing release candidates, reporting bugs, and joining the community on Discord, Telegram, and X.
Looking up a specific term or symbol? The Glossary defines every concept used in the protocol docs; the Terms page registers every term-* cross-reference target. Both pages are designed to be linked into directly — the per-term anchors are stable.