Replaces the upstream README (PyPI badges, upstream docs links) with the fork notes plus a short 'Running' section. FORK.md is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
plm-electrumx
Licence: MIT
Original Author: Neil Booth
Upstream Maintainers: The Electrum developers
Language: Python (>= 3.10)
plm-electrumx is an Electrum protocol server for Palladium (PLM), the coin of
palladiumcore. It is a fork of
spesmilo/electrumx that supports Palladium only.
It connects to your Palladium full node and indexes the blockchain, allowing efficient querying of
the history of arbitrary addresses.
Running
Requirements: Python >= 3.10, a synced Palladium node with server=1 and txindex=1 (no pruning),
and one of the DB engines (pip install ".[leveldb]" or pip install ".[rocksdb]").
pip install ".[rocksdb]"
DB_ENGINE=rocksdb DB_DIRECTORY=/path/to/db \
DAEMON_URL=http://rpcuser:rpcpassword@127.0.0.1:2332/ \
SERVICES=tcp://:50001 electrumx_server
COIN defaults to Palladium and NET to mainnet (testnet and regtest are also available).
All settings are environment variables, documented in docs/environment.rst; docs/HOWTO.rst
describes a full installation.
Fork notes
Starting point
The first commit of this repository is an unmodified snapshot of upstream
spesmilo/electrumx at commit
280cb339aa158e099eb936033eecd15719770651
("Merge pull request #389 from SomberNight/202607_release_2_0", upstream release 2.0.0, 3 July 2026).
The upstream history itself is not included. All Palladium-specific changes are in the commits after it:
git log --reverse
Updating from upstream
There is no common git history with upstream, so git merge does not work. Apply the upstream
changes since the snapshot as a patch instead:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx.git # once
git fetch upstream
git log 280cb33..upstream/master --oneline # what changed upstream
git diff 280cb33 upstream/master | git apply --3way
Conflicts in files this fork deleted (see below) are resolved by keeping them deleted. After an update,
replace 280cb33 above with the new upstream commit that was applied.
Removed from upstream
All other coins: their classes in coins.py, their transaction deserializers (lib/tx.py,
tx_dash.py, tx_axe.py), the session/daemon/block-processor subclasses only they used, their
tests and fixtures, and the altcoin pip extras. Bitcoin was folded into Palladium.
When merging upstream, resolve modify/delete conflicts on these files by keeping them deleted.
Palladium specifics
- Palladium Core is based on Bitcoin Core 0.19. It has no
getindexinfo,txospenderindexorsubmitpackage, so the daemon version/index checks are disabled forCOIN=Palladium, andblockchain.outpoint.subscribeandblockchain.transaction.broadcast_packagereturn a daemon error to clients. - The daemon must run with
txindex=1. - Same genesis blocks as Bitcoin (mainnet, testnet3, regtest), 80-byte headers, sha256d PoW, segwit.
- Parameters were taken from
src/chainparams.cppandsrc/chainparamsbase.cppof palladiumcore.
License
MIT, see LICENCE. The original copyright notices of ElectrumX are kept.