Dragonchain

The Dragonchain blockchain platform encompasses the development of an internal blockchain platform that provides an secure foundation providing non-repudiation, an network wide common interface, cryptographic capabilities, and efficient distribution of data to the edge.

Dragonchain architecture represents a fast-paced emerging technology foundation for businesses with which to integrate and apply toward identified business problems and use cases. Businesses can develop and track assets more efficiently, deploy the use of cryptographic smart contracts within business workflows to increase efficiency across enterprise systems, and accelerate innovation.

This platform will allow ease of integration for real business applications. There is a growing need for simplified blockchain integration. The decentralized and singular approach to blockchain implementation is sometimes at odds with the real business need to protect information and control business processes. The Dragonchain blockchain platform seeks to solve these needs.

Project Goals

Ease of integration of existing systems
Ease of development for traditional engineers and coders unfamiliar with blockchain, distributed systems, and cryptography
Client server style and simple RESTful integration points for business integration
Simple architecture (flexible and usable for unforeseen applications)
Provide protection of business data by default
Allow business focused control of processes
Fixed length period blocks
Short/fast blocks
Currency agnostic blockchain (multicurrency support)
No base currency
Interoperability with other blockchains public and private
Adoption of standards as they become available (see W3C Blockchain Community Group blockchain standardization)

Quick Links

Support

Slack Team: Dragonchain Slack Team Slack Support Channel: #support Email: support@dragonchain.org

Maintainer

Joe Roets (j03) joe@dragonchain.org

Setup and Installation

Python Dependencies

Dragonchain utilized Python 2.7

To install Python library dependencies, run the following:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Code Generation

Message classes and RMI services are generated by thrift templates. If you have Apache Thrift installed you can regenerate these classes by using the gen_thrift setup command:

python setup.py gen_thrift

Keys

Signing Key Generation openssl ecparam -name secp224r1 -genkey -out <Dragonchain Home>/pki/sk.pem
Verifying Key Generation openssl ec -in sk.pem -pubout -out <Dragonchain Home>/pki/pk.pem

Execution

Transaction Service

python <Dragonchain Home>/blockchain/transaction_svc.py --private-key <Dragonchain Home>/pki/sk.pem --public-key <Dragonchain Home>/pki/pk.pem

Query Service

python <Dragonchain Home>/blockchain/query_svc.py --private-key <Dragonchain Home>/pki/sk.pem --public-key <Dragonchain Home>/pki/pk.pem

Blockchain Processor

python <Dragonchain Home>/blockchain/processing.py --private-key <Dragonchain Home>/pki/sk.pem --public-key <Dragonchain Home>/pki/pk.pem

--private-key (required - signing key for transaction service and processing module)
--public-key  (required)
--host        (defaults to localhost)
--port, -p    (defaults to 8080)
--phase       (required)

Configuration

Configuration within yaml files within configs directory.

Environment Variables

BLOCKCHAIN_DB_HOSTNAME = Hostname of the database instance (default localhost)

BLOCKCHAIN_DB_PORT = Port of the database server (default 5432)

BLOCKCHAIN_DB_USERNAME = Database username (default blocky)

BLOCKCHAIN_DB_PASSWORD = Database password (default None)

BLOCKCHAIN_DB_NAME = Blockchain database (default blockchain, also selects .yaml config and log file with same name)

Contribution

Dragonchain uses a standard Feature Branch Workflow.

All feature development should take place in Git branch dedicated to that feature. A feature branch should be named starting with the ticket ID followed by a dash and a short description.

Issues are tracked within Github: Dragonchain Issues

Formatting

Code should follow the PEP 8 Style Guide for Python code where possible.

Contributors

Joe Roets - Principal Architect / Vision
Eileen Quenin - Product Manager / Evangelist
Brandon Kite - Lead Developer
Dylan Yelton - Developer
Michael Bachtel - DevOps / Developer
Lucas Ontivero - Developer
Adam Bronfin - Developer / Reviewer
Benjamin Israelson - Developer / Reviewer
Forrest Fisher - Program Manager
Robbin Schill - Program Manager
Krassi Krustev - Developer
Rob Eickmann - iOS Developer
Sean Ochoa - DevOps / Sysadmin
Paul Sonier - Developer / Reviewer
Steve Owens - Reviewer
Mark LaPerriere - Reviewer
Kevin Duane - Reviewer
Chris Moore - Reviewer
Brian J Wilson - Architect

License

Copyright 2016 Disney Connected and Advanced Technologies

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "Apache License")
with the following modification; you may not use this file except in
compliance with the Apache License and the following modification to it:
Section 6. Trademarks. is deleted and replaced with:

     6. Trademarks. This License does not grant permission to use the trade
        names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the Licensor
        and its affiliates, except as required to comply with Section 4(c) of
        the License and to reproduce the content of the NOTICE file.

You may obtain a copy of the Apache License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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KIND, either express or implied. See the Apache License for the specific
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