The RChain platform architecture description provides a high-level blueprint to build a decentralized, economically sustainable public compute infrastructure. The RChain design is inspired by that of earlier blockchains; it unifies decades of research across the fields of concurrent and distributed computation, formal semantics, and programming language design. The RChain platform boasts a modular, end-to-end design that commits to correct-by-construction software and industrial extensibility.

This project uses Sphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/index.html) to build html that is published to Read the Docs. To run this documentation on your computer, you should do the following:

• Python 2.6 or later
• git

For OSX/Linux users (based on instructions here: https://read-the-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started.html)

• From command line: sudo pip install sphinx

For Windows users:

• http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/install.html#windows-install-python-and-sphinx

• git clone: https://github.com/rchain/architecture-docs.git

• In a terminal window, go to your architecture-docs directory.
• make html
• cd build/html
• open index.html (open in web browser)
• Tip: each time you run make html, just reload your browser to view changes