INFRASTRUCTURE

ICN Technical Infrastructure

ICN is a substrate daemon built entirely in Rust. 16 specialized crates provide identity, trust, economics, governance, networking, and compute capabilities.

icnd - The ICN Daemon

Actor-based runtime on Tokio with 1,134+ tests

Crates

Binaries

Network Services

7777

QUIC P2P

Peer-to-peer mesh networking

5601

JSON-RPC

API for clients and tooling

9100

Prometheus

Metrics and monitoring

8080

Health Check

Liveness and readiness probes

Binaries

icnd — Main daemon binary. Runs the full ICN node.

icnctl — CLI for administration, identity management, and operations.

icn-console — Interactive REPL for development and debugging.

Core Crates

icn-core — Shared types and traits

icn-identity — DIDs and credentials

icn-trust — Web-of-participation

icn-ledger — Mutual credit ledger

icn-ccl — Contract language

icn-governance — Voting and proposals

icn-compute — Distributed compute

icn-storage — Data persistence

icn-network — P2P networking

icn-gossip — Trust-gated gossip

icn-api — REST gateway

icn-crypto — Cryptographic primitives

icn-utils — Shared utilities

icn-economics — Credit/mana system

icn-runtime — Actor supervisor

icn-testkit — Testing harness

Deployment

ICN is designed for self-hosted deployment. Each cooperative runs their own node(s), connecting to form a federated network.

# Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/InterCooperative-Network/icn
cd icn && cargo build --release

# Run the daemon
./target/release/icnd --config config.toml

GitHub Repository

InterCooperative-Network/icn

Visit this repository to explore the code, contribute, or track issues and development progress.