Provenance is a distributed, proof of stake blockchain designed for the financial services industry.

For more information about Provenance Inc visit https://provenance.io

The Provenance app is the core blockchain application for running a node on the Provenance Network. The node software is based on the open source Tendermint consensus engine combined with the Cosmos SDK and custom modules to support apis for financial services. Figure is the first and primary user of the Provenance Blockchain.

The Provenance networks are based on work from the private Figure Technologies blockchain launched in 2018.

The Provenance Blockchain is based on Cosmos, the sdk introduction is a useful starting point.

Developers can use a local checkout and the make targets make run and make localnet-start to run a local development network.

Note: Requires Go 1.16+

There are two active public Provenance networks, testnet and mainnet.