Airbloc

Airbloc is user-oriented data exchange protocol which is designed to be scalable, transparent, and able to handle enterprise-grade massive data.

• User-Oriented: Every data on Airbloc is owned and controlled by user, and can be queried as a user profile.
• Privacy: Airbloc protects privacy through data encryption and privacy shield technology, with GDPR compliances.
• Decentralized: Airbloc does not require any central authorities. Instead, it uses Ethereum and its own cryptoeconomic protocol to handle data exchange in a decentralized manner.

For details, please check our technical whitepaper.

This repository contains an implementation of Airbloc client and node using Go.

Airbloc is under VERY ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT and should be treated as pre-alpha software. This means it is not meant to be run in production, its APIs are subject to change without warning.

Getting Started

Building from Source

Prerequisites

Go and Node is required to compile clients and smart contracts.

• Go == 1.11.5
• Node.JS >= 10.0

Build

 $ make all

If you see some errors related to header files on macOS, please install XCode Command Line Tools.

xcode-select --install

Running Airbloc

 $ airbloc

Running Airbloc Server

You may need to set up configurations before running Airbloc.

 $ airbloc server

Running Airbloc from Local Environment

Before launching Airbloc network on local, Make sure that:

• MongoDB is running on localhost:27017
• Ethereum node is running on localhost:8545

We recommend using Docker Compose to launch local environment. The setup can done in a command by:

$ docker-compose run start_dependencies

If you don't use Docker Compose and use your own Ethereum network, you may have to deploy Airbloc contracts manually. You can see guides on Contract Documentations.

After setting up environments, you can launch Airbloc server via:

 $ airbloc server

You can customize ports and other parameters by passing parameters.

 $ airbloc server --port 8080 --config /path/to/your/config.yml

Testing

Test files are located in test/ directory.

Unit Test

 $ make test

Local End-to-End (E2E) Testing

 $ docker-compose run start_dependencies; docker-compose run airbloc
 $ make test-e2e

Development

Regenerating Protobuf Binds

If you modify any Protobuf definitions in proto/, you should regenerate the protobuf binds.

 $ make generate-proto

Generating Python Protobuf Binds

 $ make generate-python-pb

The generated code will be located in build/gen.

License

The airbloc-go project is licensed under the Apache License v2.0, also included in our repository in the LICENSE file.