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Hornet

Free and Open-Sourced

Hornet and the INX plugins are free, open-sourced, and maintained by both the IOTA Foundation and the IOTA Community.

Hornet is a powerful, Shimmer node software written in Go. It is easy to install and runs on low-end devices. Hornet is a full-fledged software providing full node capabilities, including complete support for Stardust's latest features.

INX Plugins​

INX (IOTA Node Extension) plugins are Node extensions that communicate to the Node over gRPC. They can track ledger updates, check the node status, and more.

Available INX Plugins​

  • Indexer: Maintains its own database of structured, queryable data.
  • MQTT: Offers a list of topics clients can subscribe to, to receive the latest blocks and outputs attached on the tangle
  • PoI (Proof of Inclusion): Generates and verifies Proof-of-Inclusion of blocks in the Tangle
  • Participation: Enables on-tangle voting.
  • Coordinator: Coordinates the constant growth of the tangle by issuing milestones.
  • Faucet: Distributes test tokens to developers.
  • Dashboard: Provides an overview of your nodes health and allows you to manage peers and plugins.
  • Spammer: Generates transactions in the network thereby increasing reference and confirmation rates
  • Wasp: Runs the IOTA Smart Contracts protocol.
  • Chronicle: Listens to all blocks in the Tangle referenced by a milestone and stores them in a MongoDB database.
  • API Core v0: Provides historical tangle data from a hornet legacy database via IOTA legacy API.
  • API Core v1: Provides historical tangle data from a hornet chrysalis database via IOTA chrysalis API.
  • IRC Metadata: Enables to query the metadata of NFT following the IRC27 - IOTA NFT standards and native tokens following the IRC30 - Native Token Metadata Standard. Given a piece of data or transaction and the proof, you can verify whether it was included in the Tangle at any given time.