# Welcome 👋 ![](https://4190243448-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LjowRZXgVHNIBVxEPec%2F-LzrL57zZV1NUi2M_fZC%2F-LzrLl-mnubOlzdTEDSK%2Fheader.png?alt=media\&token=22e18a34-30f3-451d-9622-7cff87b6d4c2) ## About The **X-Cash Foundation is an open-source, no-ICO blockchain project** launched in 2018 developing a privacy centered cryptocurrency inheriting from Monero and bringing new innovation in the privacy coin space. X-Cash main features are: * **FlexPrivacy - Private and public transactions on the same blockchain**\ Private by default, X-Cash's FlexPrivacy lets the user decide if he/she wants the transaction to be made public. * **Delegated-Proof-of-Private-Stake - X-Cash custom consensus designed for privacy coins**\ X-Cash consensus model gets rid of the decentralized yet unsustainable PoW consensus to propose its own variation of a DPoS with DBFT consensus. * **Sidechains - The next step in blockchain hosting**\ X-Cash will make it easy to create and host your own blockchain, while being able to profit from X-Cash's unique features. The document was written and aggregated by the X-Cash Foundation, the X-Cash development team and contributors. If you would like to learn more about contributing please the visit our [Github](https://github.com/X-CASH-official/) organization. ## Get Started Looking to use X-Cash but don't know where to start? Check our list of quick guides: | What are you looking for? | Description | | --------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **I want to connect to the network and create a node.** | X-Cash nodes interact with each other through a daemon. Check the daemon documentation - [xcashd](https://docs.xcash.foundation/applications/xcashd) to connect to the network. | | **I want to stake my XCASH.** | You can stake your XCASH towards a delegate and earn rewards depending on your vote. Check our our stake and voting section. | | **I want to become a delegate and start forging X-Cash.** | You want to be part of the limited delegates that have the power to forge the next block? Have a look a our set up a delegate node guide. | | **I want to create/open a wallet.** | Go to the CLI wallet documentation ([xcash-wallet-cli](https://docs.xcash.foundation/applications/xcash-wallet-cli)) to learn everything about the X-CASH wallet and the different commands. | | **How can I interact with the wallet or daemon?** |

You can interact with X-Cash with Remote Procedure Calls.
Have a look at xcash-daemon-rpc and xcash-wallet-rpc to learn more.

| | **I want to import a blockchain file.** | You can bootstrap your synchronization if you already have a RAW file of the blockchain. Check out the full documentation of [xcash-blockchain-import](https://docs.xcash.foundation/applications/xcash-blockchain-import) | | **I am looking for the API.** | Check out our API section. | ### Useful Links #### General links * [**X-Cash website** ](https://xcash.foundation)- The official website of the X-Cash project. * [**X-Cash official blog**](https://medium.com/x-cash) - Read about the latest development of X-Cash * [**X-Cash explorer** ](https://explorer.x-cash.org/Explorer)- See your ongoing transactions and explorer the X-CASH blockchain. * [**GitHub**](https://github.com/X-CASH-official) - The X-Cash source code and related repositories. * [**X-Network**](https://x-network.io) - Check everything about X-Cash related development from the founding team. * [**Help Center**](https://xcashteam.atlassian.net/servicedesk) - If you encounter a bug, or want to communicate on improvements. #### Community * [**Discord** ](https://discord.gg/4CAahnd)- Engage with the community, ask questions and talk with the team. * [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/home) - Follow us for weekly updates, contests and community polls. * [**Reddit**](https://www.reddit.com/r/xcash) - Join the Reddit community * [**Telegram**](https://t.me/xcashglobal) - Get the latest news and announcement of anything X-CASH related #### Technical Litterature * [**FlexPrivacy**](https://x-network.io/whitepaper/XCASH_Yellowpaper_Hybrid-tx.pdf) - Public and Private transactions on the X-Cash blockchain. * [**DPoPS**](https://x-network.io/whitepaper/XCASH_Yellowpaper_DPoPS.pdf) - Delegated Proof-of-Private-Stake, a DPoS implementation under X-Cash. ## Sources As a fork of Monero, most of the basic functions of X-Cash are already documented. These functions are transcribed from the official Monero documentation: * [**https://monerodocs.org/**](https://monerodocs.org/interacting/monerod-reference/) * [**https://web.getmonero.org/resources/developer-guides/**](https://web.getmonero.org/resources/developer-guides/daemon-rpc.html) * [**https://moneroexamples.github.io/**](https://moneroexamples.github.io/python-json-rpc/)