DBXChain

Build Status:

master | develop
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• Getting Started
• Support
• Using the API
• Accessing restricted API's
• FAQ
• License

DBXChain Core is the DBXChain blockchain implementation and command-line interface. DBX Chain is developed based on graphene, namely the project of Bitshares. We have made our own consensus mechanism, aka D-DPoS, in brief a contribution-based and relatively randomized super-node election mechanism, in order to avoid ballot rigging and improve security. Also, we have implemented our own virtual machine (which is not included in Bitshares) for smart contracts, which is also compatible with Solidarity, the most popular Ethereum smart contract language. The web wallet is DBXChain UI.

NOTE: The official DBXChain git repository location, default branch, and submodule remotes were recently changed. Existing repositories can be updated with the following steps:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/dbxone/dbxchain.git
git checkout master
git remote set-head origin --auto
git pull
git submodule sync --recursive
git submodule update --init --recursive

Getting Started

Build instructions and additional documentation are available in the wiki.

We recommend building on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and the build dependencies may be installed with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install autoconf cmake git libboost-all-dev libssl-dev g++ libcurl4-openssl-dev

To build after all dependencies are installed:

git clone https://github.com/dbxone/dbxchain.git
cd dbxchain
git checkout <LATEST_RELEASE_TAG>
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo .
make

NOTE: DBXChain requires an OpenSSL version in the 1.0.x series. OpenSSL 1.1.0 and newer are NOT supported. If your system OpenSSL version is newer, then you will need to manually provide an older version of OpenSSL and specify it to CMake using -DOPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR, -DOPENSSL_SSL_LIBRARY, and -DOPENSSL_CRYPTO_LIBRARY.

NOTE: DBXChain requires a Boost version in the range [1.57, 1.63]. Versions earlier than 1.57 or newer than 1.63 are NOT supported. If your system Boost version is newer, then you will need to manually build an older version of Boost and specify it to CMake using DBOOST_ROOT.

After building, the witness node can be launched with:

./programs/witness_node/witness_node

The node will automatically create a data directory including a config file. It may take several hours to fully synchronize the blockchain. After syncing, you can exit the node using Ctrl+C and setup the command-line wallet by editing witness_node_data_dir/config.ini as follows:

rpc-endpoint = 127.0.0.1:8090

NOTE: By default the witness node will start in reduced memory ram mode by using some of the commands detailed in Memory reduction for nodes. In order to run a full node with all the account history you need to remove partial-operations and max-ops-per-account from your config file. Please note that currently(2017-12-23) a full node need 54GB of RAM to operate and required memory is growing fast.

After starting the witness node again, in a separate terminal you can run:

./programs/cli_wallet/cli_wallet

Set your inital password:

>>> set_password <PASSWORD>
>>> unlock <PASSWORD>

To import your initial balance:

>>> import_balance <ACCOUNT NAME> [<WIF_KEY>] true

If you send private keys over this connection, rpc-endpoint should be bound to localhost for security.

Use help to see all available wallet commands. Source definition and listing of all commands is available here.

Support

DBXChain Core bugs can be reported directly to the issue tracker.

DBXChain UI bugs should be reported to the UI issue tracker

Up to date online Doxygen documentation can be found at Doxygen

Using the API

We provide several different API's. Each API has its own ID. When running witness_node, initially two API's are available: API 0 provides read-only access to the database, while API 1 is used to login and gain access to additional, restricted API's.

Here is an example using wscat package from npm for websockets:

$ npm install -g wscat
$ wscat -c ws://127.0.0.1:8090
> {"id":1, "method":"call", "params":[0,"get_accounts",[["1.2.0"]]]}
< {"id":1,"result":[{"id":"1.2.0","annotations":[],"membership_expiration_date":"1969-12-31T23:59:59","registrar":"1.2.0","referrer":"1.2.0","lifetime_referrer":"1.2.0","network_fee_percentage":2000,"lifetime_referrer_fee_percentage":8000,"referrer_rewards_percentage":0,"name":"committee-account","owner":{"weight_threshold":1,"account_auths":[],"key_auths":[],"address_auths":[]},"active":{"weight_threshold":6,"account_auths":[["1.2.5",1],["1.2.6",1],["1.2.7",1],["1.2.8",1],["1.2.9",1],["1.2.10",1],["1.2.11",1],["1.2.12",1],["1.2.13",1],["1.2.14",1]],"key_auths":[],"address_auths":[]},"options":{"memo_key":"GPH1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm","voting_account":"1.2.0","num_witness":0,"num_committee":0,"votes":[],"extensions":[]},"statistics":"2.7.0","whitelisting_accounts":[],"blacklisting_accounts":[]}]}

We can do the same thing using an HTTP client such as curl for API's which do not require login or other session state:

$ curl --data '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "call", "params": [0, "get_accounts", [["1.2.0"]]], "id": 1}' http://127.0.0.1:8090/rpc
{"id":1,"result":[{"id":"1.2.0","annotations":[],"membership_expiration_date":"1969-12-31T23:59:59","registrar":"1.2.0","referrer":"1.2.0","lifetime_referrer":"1.2.0","network_fee_percentage":2000,"lifetime_referrer_fee_percentage":8000,"referrer_rewards_percentage":0,"name":"committee-account","owner":{"weight_threshold":1,"account_auths":[],"key_auths":[],"address_auths":[]},"active":{"weight_threshold":6,"account_auths":[["1.2.5",1],["1.2.6",1],["1.2.7",1],["1.2.8",1],["1.2.9",1],["1.2.10",1],["1.2.11",1],["1.2.12",1],["1.2.13",1],["1.2.14",1]],"key_auths":[],"address_auths":[]},"options":{"memo_key":"GPH1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm","voting_account":"1.2.0","num_witness":0,"num_committee":0,"votes":[],"extensions":[]},"statistics":"2.7.0","whitelisting_accounts":[],"blacklisting_accounts":[]}]}

API 0 is accessible using regular JSON-RPC:

$ curl --data '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "get_accounts", "params": [["1.2.0"]], "id": 1}' http://127.0.0.1:8090/rpc

Accessing restricted API's

You can restrict API's to particular users by specifying an api-access file in config.ini or by using the --api-access /full/path/to/api-access.json startup node command. Here is an example api-access file which allows user bytemaster with password supersecret to access four different API's, while allowing any other user to access the three public API's necessary to use the wallet:

{
   "permission_map" :
   [
      [
         "bytemaster",
         {
            "password_hash_b64" : "9e9GF7ooXVb9k4BoSfNIPTelXeGOZ5DrgOYMj94elaY=",
            "password_salt_b64" : "INDdM6iCi/8=",
            "allowed_apis" : ["database_api", "network_broadcast_api", "history_api", "network_node_api"]
         }
      ],
      [
         "*",
         {
            "password_hash_b64" : "*",
            "password_salt_b64" : "*",
            "allowed_apis" : ["database_api", "network_broadcast_api", "history_api"]
         }
      ]
   ]
}

Passwords are stored in base64 as salted sha256 hashes. A simple Python script, saltpass.py is avaliable to obtain hash and salt values from a password. A single asterisk "*" may be specified as username or password hash to accept any value.

With the above configuration, here is an example of how to call add_node from the network_node API:

{"id":1, "method":"call", "params":[1,"login",["bytemaster", "supersecret"]]}
{"id":2, "method":"call", "params":[1,"network_node",[]]}
{"id":3, "method":"call", "params":[2,"add_node",["127.0.0.1:9090"]]}

Note, the call to network_node is necessary to obtain the correct API identifier for the network API. It is not guaranteed that the network API identifier will always be 2.

Since the network_node API requires login, it is only accessible over the websocket RPC. Our doxygen documentation contains the most up-to-date information about API's for the witness node and the wallet. If you want information which is not available from an API, it might be available from the database; it is fairly simple to write API methods to expose database methods.

FAQ

• Is there a way to generate help with parameter names and method descriptions?

  Yes. Documentation of the code base, including APIs, can be generated using Doxygen. Simply run doxygen in this directory.

  If both Doxygen and perl are available in your build environment, the CLI wallet's help