MoonBite Core is the reference full node. It checks every transaction, enforces every rule, and takes nobody's word for anything — ours included. Run it and you stop trusting; you start verifying.
MoonBite Core is the software that decides what the MoonBite network actually is. It's built on the Litecoin codebase, itself a descendant of Bitcoin Core, so it inherits decades of peer-reviewed cryptographic engineering.
MoonBite Core forks from Litecoin Core, which forks from Bitcoin Core. The consensus rules, the cryptography, the peer protocol — all of it has been hammered on across years of live mainnet.
Every MBITE parameter lives in this code: the 10 MBITE genesis reward, the halving every 1,650,000 blocks, the 2-minute block target, the ~33,000,000 MBITE cap. The software is the spec.
Every line of consensus-critical code is public. Read it, build it yourself, run it — no need to trust a binary handed to you by anyone, the MoonBite team included.
Run MoonBite Core and you're a participant in the network, not a spectator watching someone else's screen.
Your node runs every transaction in every block against the full ruleset: signatures, script, supply schedule, double-spend protection. Nothing gets through unchecked.
Your node passes valid blocks and transactions on to everyone else. More nodes means faster propagation and a tougher mesh — harder to silence, harder to split.
MoonBite Core exposes a JSON-RPC API on localhost. Wallets, miners, and your own tools use it to read chain state, broadcast transactions, and query address history.
Every unspent output since genesis lives in a local database. When MBITE lands in your wallet, your node already knows. It never has to ask someone else's server.
No node anywhere — not even one the MoonBite developers run — can mint coins beyond the schedule. Try it, and your node rejects the block flat out.
The block explorer on this site reads from a MoonBite Core node over RPC. Run your own and you can pull the same data without leaning on this service at all.
Every node you trust instead of running yourself is a point of trust. Trust stacks up. Your own node takes the whole layer away.
Point your wallet at your own node and your transaction history and balances never leave your machine. A stranger's node sees every address you ask about.
A hostile or hacked public node can feed you a fake chain tip. Your own node checks the proof-of-work itself. A crafted answer doesn't fool it.
Every extra full node raises the cost of a partition or eclipse attack. Running one is the most direct thing you can do for decentralisation.
If an upgrade ever gets contentious, the nodes that reject it are a real signal. Full-node operators are the final check on protocol changes. No miner or developer can override them.
Once you have the daemon binary (see the download notes), a node is one command away. The RPC then waits for you on localhost.
# start moonbited on the live mainnet moonbited \ -daemon \ -rpcuser=rpcuser \ -rpcpassword=rpcpass # watch it sync moonbite-cli getblockchaininfo # or add -testnet to either command to run testnet instead
# chain tip via the web API curl https://moonbite.org/api/blockchain/info # response { "status": "success", "height": 4210, "tip_hash": "0000…", "total_money_coins": 42100 }
Step-by-step for Linux, macOS, and Windows — from downloading the binary to opening the right firewall port.
Read the guide →Pre-built binaries for the node daemon (moonbited) and the CLI tool (moonbite-cli), each with a SHA-256 checksum.
Clone the repo and follow the build steps in the README. Compiling it yourself is the most trustless path there is.
Node source repository →Browse the live testnet chain — the same data your node produces, in a web view.
Open explorer →The full REST docs: every endpoint, every parameter, an example response for each, ready to build on.
API reference →For people who want to run a relay node without mining. Less hardware, same sovereignty.
Full node guide →