Rust-native building blocks for the Cardano blockchain ecosystem

## Introduction Pallas is an expanding collection of modules that re-implements common Ouroboros / Cardano logic in native Rust. This crate doesn't provide any particular application, it is meant to be used as a base layer to facilitate the development of higher-level use-cases, such as explorers, wallets, etc (who knows, maybe even a full node in a far away future). ## Unboxing The repository is organized as a Cargo workspace. Each _Pallas_ "building block" lives in its own crate. The root `pallas` crate serves as an all-in-one dependency that re-exports all of the other modules in an hierarchically organized fashion, using Cargo `features` to tailor the setup for each use-case. As already explained, _Pallas_ aims at being an expanding set of components. The following tables describe the currently available crates, as well as the planned ones. ### Ouroboros Network | Crates | Description | | --------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [pallas-network](/pallas-network) | Network stack providing a multiplexer and mini-protocol implementations | ### Ouroboros Consensus | Crates | Description | | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | pallas-leadership | Implementation of the slot leadership selection algorithm | | pallas-selection | Implementation of the consensus chain-selection algorithm | ### Cardano Ledger | Crates | Description | | --------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [pallas-primitives](/pallas-primitives) | Ledger primitives and cbor codec for the different Cardano eras | | [pallas-traverse](/pallas-traverse) | Utilities to traverse over multi-era block data | | [pallas-addresses](/pallas-addresses) | Encode / decode Cardano addresses of any type | | pallas-ticking | Time passage implementation for consensus algorithm | | pallas-applying | Logic for validating and applying new blocks and txs to the chain state | | pallas-forecasting | Ledger forecasting algorithm to be used by the consensus layer | ### Shared | Crates | Description | | ------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | | [pallas-crypto](/pallas-crypto) | Shared Cryptographic primitives | | [pallas-codec](/pallas-codec) | Shared CBOR encoding / decoding using minicbor lib | | [pallas-math](/pallas-math) | Shared mathematics functions | ## Etymology > Pallas: (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare;