blockchain-ts

blockchain

Fully fledged PoW blockchain implementation in TypeScript.

Features/Setup

• Proof of Work (similar to Bitcoin's Hashcash)
• Consensus (similar to Bitcoin's longest chain)
• Implemented Node P2P communication via HTTP/S (register, transaction, blocks)
• Addresses in RSA PEM 1024/2048 easily swapable with e.g. elliptic curves
• Transaction SHA256 signature validation
• SHA256 Block Hashes
• All node operations are call-able via HTTP API
• Chain backed to disk in nodes via SQLite3 easily swapable with a different backend

Use

Prepare

Requires Node.js > 8.x.x and yarn (npm i -g yarn).

yarn

Start

yarn start

Test

3 Node Network E2E Tests

P2P Protocol

yarn test:p2p

Consensus Algorithm

yarn test:consensus

HTTP Node API

Client Facing

• GET /api/address/new blocking operation

• POST /api/address/transactions/:address - {address}

• POST /api/address/balance/:address - {address}

• GET /api/blocks/last

• POST /api/transaction/sign - {transaction, address, privateKey} test endpoint

• POST /api/transactions/new - {sender, recipient, amount, payload, timestamp, signature}

Operations (trigger)

• GET /api/mine blocking operation
• GET /api/nodes/resolve

P2P Node Protocol

• POST /api/nodes/register - {nodes}
• GET /api/peer/chain p2p node endpoint
• POST /api/peer/transaction - {transaction} p2p node endpoint
• POST /api/peer/block - {block} p2p node endpoint

License

Apache License 2.0

Further Scaling Oppertunities

• During conflict resolvation the servering node streams TransferInterface to the fetching client node, but currently the client node does not stream insert the blockchain.
• Currently the blockchain validation function is based on a full in memory process, to scale further this needs to either be chunked/streamed or based on a db process.
• The balance of a sender should be checked when a transaction is made and when such a transaction is received by another node via peer communcation (requires a single function call)
• Additional hardening might be needed in case of blocks that are mined at the exact same time
• Addresses should be switched to elliptic curves to generate and sign faster
• SQLite3 should be switched with a more scaleable database
• Nodes should constantly extend their known nodes, by asking for other registered nodes (easily implemented)

Changelog

1.1.0

• updated dependencies
• fixed issues with breaking changes of dependencies