Shimmerpp is intended to serve as a hub for developers interested in the Shimmer ecosystem. Its purpose is to create a community of C++ developers that use and trust the IOTA/Shimmer protocol. We are not interested in the speculative side of crypto and we are not associated with the Iota Foundation. We discourage investing in Shimmer and IOTA because that will be investing in the Iota Foundation and its pursuit of centralizing the development and protocol.

The community is open to all experience levels of C++ and all types of contributions. It is intended to create discussion and fill the gaps of the interested user or developer when interacting with Layer 1.

The idea

The idea around a Qt/C++ community in the Shimmer ecosystem comes from Eddy and was supported by a grant from the Tangle Community Treasury.

Contributing

All kinds of contributions are welcome. From documenting code to creating the most advanced algorithm for doing PoW. New content showcasing applications, new ideas, etc are welcome in the blog.

The main guidelines when contributing are

• Keep it simple.

• Code once deploy everywhere.

• Explain as much as you can.

• Make sure to acknowledge your work and ideas.

Main Components

The different base components for interacting with the Shimmer Layer 1 are

• Universal private key derivation from master private key

• Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys

• Checksummed base32 format addresses

• Proof-of-work as a means to rate-limit the network

• Ed25519 elliptic curve signature scheme

• Blocks and UTXOs

• Client to communicate with the REST API of the nodes

• Client to communicate with the Event API of the nodes

High-level Components

• Address Wallet

• Wallet

• Account

• Client Connection

Examples

• Output creation

• NFT Mint

• Buy Me A Coffee

• Air Drops