Acropolis

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Acropolis is not production-ready. Do not use it to manage funds, produce blocks, submit transactions, or operate a blockchain node.

Acropolis is a safe local-first Rust scaffold for Cardano node and cardano-node development. The project is authored by Trevor Knott and Knott Dynamics.

Safety

The default command prints a local startup plan.
Mainnet contact is blocked.
Default paths do not dial peers, fetch remote data, serve interfaces, or mutate node state.
Production ledger, sync, forging, storage, and peer-to-peer behavior are incomplete.
Live testnet behavior requires an explicit opt-in and remains strictly bounded.
Published package contents are restricted by an explicit Cargo allowlist.

Local Capabilities

Startup and shutdown planning.
Offline network profile reporting.
Bounded local Cardano configuration, topology, and peer snapshot inspection.
Deterministic Cardano network protocol vectors and in-memory conformance checks.
Local observability and safety reports.
An optional tui dashboard.

Safe Commands

cargo fmt --check
cargo check --offline
cargo test --offline
cargo run --offline -- plan
cargo run --offline -- status
cargo run --offline -- networks
cargo run --offline -- testnet-plan --network testnet
cargo run --offline -- testnet-conformance
cargo run --offline -- testnet-readiness
cargo check --offline --features tui --examples
cargo test --offline --features tui

Construction Preview

cargo install acropolis
acropolis status

This installs the local reporting scaffold only. It does not install a production Cardano node.

The testnet-probe and testnet-handshake-probe commands can open one explicitly authorized public-testnet connection. The handshake probe writes one Cardano proposal frame and reads one bounded response frame. Both commands reject mainnet, DNS hostnames, non-default ports, retries, and timeouts above five seconds.

Publication

The crate is published as acropolis with these discovery terms: Acropolis, Cardano, Cardano node, cardano-node, blockchain, and node.