# <img src="src/resources/svg_rg_2_crop.png" width="9%" height="9%"> Redgold
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[Website](https://redgold.io) |
[Contributing](https://dev.docs.redgold.io/contribute/guide) |
[Dev Setup](https://dev.docs.redgold.io/contribute/dev-setup) |
[Whitepaper](https://dev.docs.redgold.io/whitepaper/whitepaper) |
[Run A Node](docs/run_a_node.md) |
[Security Procedures](docs/security_procedures.md)
Redgold or "philosophical gold", is intended as an ideological opposite of BlackRock. It is a
decentralized, open-source, peer-to-peer platform
designed to act as a financial data and computation layer for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The primary product
intention is focused around ETFs & Portfolio target models, and finance, but the platform is designed to be general purpose
as a decentralized data lake and SQL compute engine.
It is inspired heavily by Spark and pandas like data transformations on conventional
parquet data lakes, with the key distinguishing factor being the ability to support multi-tenant compute with
arbitrary secure UDFs compiled by anyone. WASM executors are used for secure remote code execution to chain together
transforms operating on SQL-like data loading functions as inputs. Protobuf is used for relational algebra descriptors
and for raw signature operations. Arrow is used as a cross-memory format for WASM invocations, with sqlite
tables for frequent access and parquet tables for long-lived data indexes. All operations are translated to work
with Kademlia distances. [ACCEPT](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.05236.pdf) consensus protocol is the most similar
to the demonstrated primary optimization technique. For a full technical description and motivation of this project
please refer above to the [whitepaper](https://dev.docs.redgold.io/whitepaper/whitepaper).
* This project is in experimental development and is not a production release / not yet on mainnet