Cosmos-Cash

What is Cosmos Cash

Cosmos Cash is a research project that aims to develop a protocol that provides features typical of electronic money, adopting the blockchain technology as underlying infrastructure, and thus leading to a digital asset to be applied within the payment industry.

Please read the full report for more information.

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What's in this repository

This repository hosts a Cosmos Cash proof-of-concept application built on Cosmos SDK that stores data in a key/value store and is secured using a Proof Of Authority consensus algorithm.

The goal of the application is to re-define how an electric money institution works by leveraging the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint.

How to install the application

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1. Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:allinbits/cosmos-cash-poc.git

2. Install the binaries (poad, poacli)

cd cosmos-cash-poc
make install

3. Ensure binaries are available and for testing purposes set the keyring to be test

poad -h
poacli -h
poacli config keyring-backend test

How to initialize the application

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1. Initialize the genesis file ($HOME/.poad/config/genesis.json)

poad init --chain-id=cash cash

2. Create a key for the first validator

poacli keys add validator

3. Add the validator that was created in the step 2 as the first validator and assign them 1000000000 cash coins

poad add-genesis-account $(poacli keys show validator -a) 1000000000cash,1000000000stake

4. Generate a initial CreateValidator transaction to allow other applications in the network to sync when they join

poad gentx --name validator --keyring-backend test

5. Put the previously generated transaction in the correct location to allow the application to start correctly

poad collect-gentxs

6. Start the applicaton 🎉

poad start

7. Run commands outlined in the Makefile

cat Makefile | grep create-

How to run a localnet

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1. Build the dockerfile

docker build -t 388991194029.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/allinbits-dev/cosmos-cash-poa .

2. Run the localnet

make localnet-start

3. Set up the consensus

make localnet-consensus

4. Create issuer data

make localnet-distribute-tokens

4. Create user data

make localnet-users

How to run the webui (run localnet commands for seed data)

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1. Go to the vue folder

cd vue

2. Start the web server

yarn serve

3. Check the website in the browser

localhost:8080