merkle-proofs

Python library allowing creation of Merkle trees and output receipts in a format consistent with the chainpoint v2 standard.

Also allows validation of a Merkle receipt.

This was developed in support of the Blockchain Certificates project. It supports only a subset of the Chainpoint v2 standard.

Using the pypi package

The most common way to use this is to add the latest cert-verifier pypi package to your project dependencies.

Running the CLI locally

1. Ensure you have an python environment. Recommendations

2. Git clone the repository and change to the directory

   git clone https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/merkle-proofs.git && cd merkle-proofs

3. Run merkle-proofs setup

   pip install .

Unit tests

This project uses tox to validate against several python environments.

1. Ensure you have an python environment. Recommendations

2. Run tests

   ./run_tests.sh
   

   Contact

Contact info@blockcerts.org with questions