aergo

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Aergo - Distributed Trust at Scale

Official Chain Software of Aergo Protocol

We are developing the most practical and powerful platform for blockchain businesses. This will be a huge challenge. There are 4 main ideologies regarding this project.

1. Developer-friendly
2. Guaranteed performance
3. Scalable architecture
4. Connect with the world

You can see the current testnet via aergoscan service: aergoscan

Roadmaps

beginning: Skeleton (31, July, 2018)

• Platform framework
• Stub consensus(dpos without voting)
• Account model
• Mempool
• Networking - p2p/protocol
• Cmd aergocli/aergosvr
• Simple client API
• Smart contract will not be released - you can see the prototype in coinstack3sp2

1st: Aergo Alpha (31, Oct, 2018)

• Consensus - BFT-dPOS (election not integrated)
  • We provide BFT by solving various problems that may occur in dpos.
• Aergo SQL smart contract (Lua-jit)
  • It is a powerful smart contract language providing DB function.
• Client - Ship
  • Client framework and development environment
  • Provides a package management and testing environment similar to NPM.
• Client SDK
  • heraj (java)
  • herajs (javascript)
  • herapy (python)
• Browser Wallet (1~2 weeks later)
  • Chrome Extension provides a coin transfer wallet.
• Sub Project
  • Litetree
    • Improved SQLite is used to provide DB functionality in a block chain.
    • Provides higher performance through LMDB.
  • Sparse Merkle Tree
    • Provides fast, space-saving sparse merkle tree.
  • Pre-Testnet
    • Launch the pre-testnet to monitor operation environment.
    • We provide https://aergoscan.io.

2nd: Aergo Testnet (28, Dec, 2018)

• BFT-dPOS with Voting
  • The pre-test net has the function of agreeing blocks among the set BPs. TestNet has a function to select BP through voting.
• Named Account
  • For user's convenience, Named Account function that can be accessed based on Name rather than Address is provided.
• Expanded Aergo Lua
  • The Aergo Lua feature has been extended for more convenient development.
• Advanced Client Framework
  • Provides a wallet interface that interacts with keystore and manages nonce.
  • Provides the ability to make smart contracts through interface calls.
  • Provides a contract library to issue tokens based on Aergo.
• Hub Enterprise
  • Enterprise customers view management and monitoring of their networks as a prerequisite.
  • We provide Hub Enterprise control solution to solve this problem.
• Merkle Bridge Verification
  • StateTrie Merkle proof verifications and delegated token transfers are now implemented in the merkle-bridge.
• Various Smart Contract Examples
  • Provide some standard smart contracts
• TestNet
  • Launch the Test Network to provide network for community and experment
  • We provide https://aergoscan.io.

3rd: Aergo Mainnet (planned in March, 2019)

• Parallelism (inter-contract)
• Simple branching (2WP or simple Plasma)

4th: Aergo World Launch (planned in 4Q, 2019)

• Orchestration with Aergo Horde
• Service with Aergo Hub
• Advanced performance features

5th: Aergo Future

• Will be updated

Key thoughts of the architecture

MVP based, Forward compatibility, Iteration

Information

Server port usages

Usage	Port
gRPC	7845
P2P	7846

Installation

Prerequisites

• Go1.10 or higher - https://golang.org/dl
• Glide - https://github.com/Masterminds/glide
• Proto Buffers - https://github.com/google/protobuf
• CMake 3.0.0 or higher - https://cmake.org

Build

Building from Source

Contribution

Following Golang conventions TBD

License

All code is licensed under the MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).