stargate-sg1

Scaling without gimmicks

... A Stargate is a server side application that listens for incoming transactions on one chain and sends a complimentary transaction on the other chain.

https://medium.com/@DontPanicBurns/the-blockchain-stargate-366a7a72822e

This prototype app brings the above cited idea to life, made Very Simple ™️ by using

• etclabscore/multi-geth,
• etclabscore/jade-service-runner, and
• etclabscore/ethereum-json-rpc-specification.

The typescript application you'll find in src/ is a proof of concept that will:

• Install multi-geth
• Boot goerli and sync
• Boot kotti and sync
• Listen for transactions to "our" address on either chain
• Make a complimentary transaction (transposing sender and recipient) on the opposite chain

For would-be hackers and tinkerers

This is just a proof of concept. It's currently configured around using the test networks Goerli and Kotti as examples, but you can easily configure the app to use any chains you want. You can use private chains. You can use mainnets. You can use any combination of these. The Stargate document talks mostly about a theoretical mainnet::CompanyNet framework, but, as above, it doesn't depend on that kind of relationship.

Along these lines, described is a system where one value is stargated for another at an arbitrary <2:1> ratio. This is arbitrary. You can get as fancy as you want; keeping in mind the Stargate mechanism is essentially the bones of a crypto currency exchange app. If you want, you can also get fancy experimenting with stargating more than just value; contracts, data, logs -- the universe is yours to wormhole between at will.

Currently the code assumes that there are only 2 clients, representing a gate at its simplest. Swap some function signatures and data structures in here, extend the service runner, and you'll be well on your way to arbitrating an n-sided gate.

Develop/Run

• Put a valid Ethereum-* key in ./keystore/. For example, you can use

$ mkdir -p keystore && geth --keystore ./keystore account new`

• Load this address with value on the chains you want it to be able send value on. Faucets are good for this, eg. http://kottifaucet.me/ and https://faucet.goerli.mudit.blog/ Exchanges will also work. Note that when we're working with Ethereum-* chains, we're able to reuse the same account. This is a nice-to-have for this app, but can, with some tinkering, be adjusted to accommodate using keys from a variety of species of chains and account specs.

• If you're interested in customizing the signer and/or its rules and config (eg. currently clef), check out the ./clef-*sh scripts, ./rules.js and the logic in ./src/txsigner.tx.

• Run:

<Terminal 0> $ jade-service-runner
<Terminal 1> $ ./clef-start.sh 5 # Goerli chain id
# => Read the http port that will automatically assigned to this clef process.
<Terminal 2> $ ./clef-start.sh 6 # Kotti chain id
# => Read the http port that will automatically assigned to this clef process.
<Terminal 3> $ npm run start <Goerli HTTP Clef port> <Kotti HTTP Clef port>

You should see something like this:

Installing multi-geth v1.9.2
multi-geth 1.9.2 installed ok? true
Setting up client: goerli2
Setting up client: kotti2
Command did set by args: goerli signer port= 43365 kotti signer port= 46675
Exec finished without errors
: kotti latest block 1458358 block.txsN 0 bal 1000042
@ kotti No managed transaction found. Returning.
: goerli latest block 1555942 block.txsN 3 bal 1000042
...
: goerli latest block 1556026 block.txsN 0 bal 2460940000000000000
@ goerli No managed transaction found. Returning.
: kotti latest block 1458443 block.txsN 0 bal 102074119980000000000
@ kotti No managed transaction found. Returning.
: goerli latest block 1556027 block.txsN 1 bal 2460940000000000000
<- goerli from 0x525615ef00c36da45cf3b1d73947af4da51634bc value 0
-> kotti corresponding write tx {
  from: '0xf215e98b4f0c749fe9b78d0d4fa97ac7c9a4fe11',
  to: '0x525615ef00c36da45cf3b1d73947af4da51634bc',
  value: '0x0',
  nonce: '0x152',
  gas: '0x5208',
  gasPrice: '0xdf8475800'
}
-> kotti signed write tx 0xf866820152850df847580082520894525615ef00c36da45cf3b1d73947af4da51634bc80802fa019c14ccb8d07f85087bf12d44030bbaef56d9d47c3aa2ec5a9ac3cfe5d00e138a0535b77fe28b2f2465cb55ffcca68f8a058817f905a7697456bdbe26ce18a954f
-> kotti posted write tx.hash: 0x64306800debebc57b38c35d854a17681a93f88cf436717e38777391bfd80cc78

Contributing

How to contribute, build and release are outlined in CONTRIBUTING.md, BUILDING.md and RELEASING.md respectively. Commits in this repository follow the CONVENTIONAL_COMMITS.md specification.