DERO Quick Start Guide

Documented for humans, shipped as an API for agents. Encrypted balances, private DVM-BASIC smart contracts, and an on-chain web, with a supply anyone can recompute for themselves.

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Mainnet since 201718s blocksPoW20,890,694 hard capencrypted balances

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For developers

Build on DERO

Write DVM-BASIC smart contracts and drive the chain over JSON-RPC.

DVM smart contractsDaemon & wallet RPC API
For auditors

Verify the chain

Recompute the supply offline and inspect the transaction proof system.

Protocol integrityVerify the supply
For AI agents

Read the chain and docs

A hosted MCP server and a Markdown mirror of every page.

MCP serverllms.txt
Total supply · estimate
Total DERO supply, live estimate derived from the emission schedule

Deterministic from block height — recompute from the schedule →  ·  supply public, balances encrypted.

What DERO gives you

Homomorphic encryption
Balances are stored as homomorphic commitments; sender, receiver, and amount are hidden inside a ring of accounts.
Privacy model →
DVM-BASIC contracts
A deterministic on-chain VM. Contract calls execute inside encrypted transactions, so state changes settle without exposing the caller.
Smart contracts →
RPC API
One JSON-RPC surface spans the daemon and the wallet, so nodes, wallets, and integrations share the same call shape.
RPC API →
TELA
Application code and assets are stored on-chain and served directly from it — no origin server to host or trust.
TELA platform →
XSWD
A permissioned WebSocket bridge between apps and wallets. The wallet approves each method the app is allowed to call.
XSWD protocol →

Don't trust, verify

Private by math, not policy

Balances and amounts are hidden with homomorphic encryption and ring signatures — enforced by cryptographic proofs anyone can check, not a privacy promise you have to trust.

Privacy overview →

Six bound proofs per transaction

Each transaction carries six cryptographic proofs bound to a single challenge hash. Forging any one invalidates the binding, so the whole transaction is rejected.

Protocol integrity →

Built for AI agents

Hosted MCP server
mcp.derod.org/mcpnpx dero-mcp-server
Query chain state and docs from any MCP client, hosted or run locally.
Machine-readable docs
/llms.txt<any-page-url>.md
An index of every documentation surface, plus a Markdown mirror of each page.

Quickstart

Run the simulator and query the daemon
# 1 — start a local chain (22 pre-funded wallets, auto-mines)
./simulator

# 2 — query the daemon over JSON-RPC
curl http://127.0.0.1:20000/json_rpc -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"DERO.GetInfo"}'

Next: deploy a DVM-BASIC contract →

Build on the ecosystem: TELA (on-chain web) · Hologram (wallet + browser + explorer) · DeroPay / DeroAuth (accept & sign in with DERO).