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IMPORTANT

THIS IS NOT A PRODUCTION BUILD, THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND A DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR QUANTUM ONE DAO. THE QUANTUMONE.NETWORK DOMAIN HAS CHANGED TO QUANTUMONE.IO. EXISTING REFERENCES TO QUANTUMONE.NETWORK ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF BEING CLEANED UP. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT BCC CHAIN AND ECOSYSTEM DEMO WAS BUILT BY ONE PERSON - GITHUB USER RMOUREY26 - AND LARGELY UNCHANGED SINCE JANUARY 2022.

PRESENTLY THE BCC CHAIN IS COMPRISED OF ROUGHLY 7K OF 'NEW' HASKELL BLOCKCHAIN CODE AND INTEGRATED WITH A MODIFIED FORK OF CARDANO INCLUDING BYRON THROUGH ALONZO ERAS. ADDITIONAL FEATURES INCLUDE - VESTED AND VESTED DELEGATE KEY ROLES AND OPTIONAL GENESIS PARAMETERS - VEST MULTIPLE PROTOCOL PARAMETER - 2ND METADATA POINTER - REDUCED NUMBER OF PROTOCOL VERSIONS TO 2

Why? The original idea was to create an alternative reward structure where genesis delegates and vested delegates could co-exist and receive different reward %. Vested Delegates could be anything from bond holders, angel investors, to charity groups, and more. The Sentry protocol version could further secure and differentiate Vested Delegate reward mechanisms from Genesis and traditional staking delegates, VestedMultiples, and or other functional representation of chain time via changing and entropic chain data. Additional logic must be implemented in order to realize alternate reward payouts.

WHAT WORKS? - Testchain Initiation - Cole to Aurum era transition voting transactions 1-3. -- Transaction 4 throws an error which seems to he due to the need for additional logic handling the reduction in the number of protocols down to 2.

WHATS THE GOAL? - THIS ALL BEGAN AS A REQUIREMENT FROM A CLIENT WHO WANTED A FORK OF CARDANO. AND 5 MONTHS LATER, THIS IS WHAT I EMDED UP CREATING OUTSIDE OF THE REQUIREMENT. I WONDERED IF IT WAS POSSIBLE TO SIGNIFICANTLY MODIFY CARDANO AND CREATE A NEW CHAIN AND OR PRIVATE VERSIONS OF CARDANO ITSELF. THIS EXPERIENCE AND DEMO ECOSYSTEM WILL ACT AS A LEARNING TOOL WHILE BUILDING NEW SOLUTIONS ON CARDANO AND DURING R&D OF QUANTUM ONE. PLEASE NOTE, QUANTUM ONE WILL NOT BECOME A FORK OF CARDANO!

API Documentation

The API documentation is published here.

The documentation is built with each push, but is only published from master branch. In order to test if the documentation is working, build the documentation locally with ./scripts/haddocs.sh and open haddocks/index.html in the browser.

bcc-node Overview

** Compile, build and, run bcc-node and BCC ecosystem using Cabal and GHC on Nixos, Linux or WSL2. The quick build method using Ubuntu 20.04 is the most efficient way to test the Bcc-Chain. NixOs and other Linux distros may require some tinkering.**

Integration of the ledger, consensus, networking and node shell repositories.

Logging is provided as a feature by the node shell to the other packages.

• The bcc-node is the top level for the node and aggregates the other components from other packages: consensus, ledger and networking, with configuration, CLI, logging and monitoring.
• The node no longer incorporates wallet or explorer functionality. The wallet backend and explorer backend are separate components that run in separate external processes that communicate with the node via local IPC.

Network Configuration, Genesis and Topology Files - THIS LINK IS NOT VALID. =================================================

The latest supported networks can be found at https://hydra.quantumone.network/job/Bcc/bcc-node/bcc-deployment/latest-finished/download/1/index.html

Quick Build Ubuntu 20.04 (Other distros will build with tinkering)

sudo apt-get update -y

sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install git jq bc make automake rsync htop curl build-essential pkg-config libffi-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev libtinfo-dev libsystemd-dev zlib1g-dev make g++ wget libncursesw5 libtool autoconf -y

mkdir $HOME/git
cd $HOME/git
git clone https://github.com/The-Blockchain-Company/libsodium
cd libsodium
git checkout 66f017f1
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Debian OS: extra lib linking may be required

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libsodium.so.23.3.0 /usr/lib/libsodium.so.23

AWS Linux CentOS: clearing the lib cache may be required.

sudo ldconfig

Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu: extra lib linking may be required

sudo apt-get install libnuma-dev

Install Cabal & dependencies

sudo apt-get -y install pkg-config libgmp-dev libssl-dev libtinfo-dev libsystemd-dev zlib1g-dev build-essential curl libgmp-dev libffi-dev libncurses-dev libtinfo5

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://get-ghcup.haskell.org | sh

Respond 'NO' to install Haskell-Language-Server (HLS) Respond 'Yes' to automatically add required PATH variable to .bashrc

cd $HOME
source .bashrc
ghcup upgrade
ghcup install cabal 3.4.0.0
ghcup set cabal 3.4.0.0

Install GHC

ghcup install ghc 8.10.4
ghcup set ghc 8.10.4

echo PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" >> $HOME/.bashrc
echo export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> $HOME/.bashrc
echo export NODE_HOME=$HOME/bcc-my-node >> $HOME/.bashrc
echo export NODE_CONFIG=mainnet>> $HOME/.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc

TestNet guidance - to set to testnet rather then mainnet...

echo export NODE_CONFIG=testnet>> $HOME/.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc

and wherever you see

'--mainnet'

in the CLI command instructions, replace it with

'--testnet-magic 1097911063'

Update Cabal and Verify Install

cabal update
cabal --version
ghc --version

Cabal version should be 3.4.0.0 and ghc should be 8.10.4

** re: code block below --> FYI git fetch not necessary, git checkout releases not necessary nor will it work as there are no github releases as of yet, will update readme when release pushed **

cd $HOME/git
git clone https://github.com/The-Blockchain-Company/bcc-node.git
cd Bcc-node
git fetch --all --recurse-submodules --tags
git checkout $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/The-Blockchain-Company/bcc-node/releases/latest | jq -r .tag_name)

cabal configure -O0 -w ghc-8.10.4

echo -e "package bcc-crypto-optimum\n flags: -external-libsodium-vrf" > cabal.project.local
sed -i $HOME/.cabal/config -e "s/overwrite-policy:/overwrite-policy: always/g"
rm -rf $HOME/git/bcc-node/dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.10.4 to reset previous build folder
cabal build all

Copy Node and CLI files to bin

sudo cp $(find $HOME/git/bcc-node/dist-newstyle/build -type f -name "bcc-cli") /usr/local/bin/bcc-cli

sudo cp $(find $HOME/git/bcc-node/dist-newstyle/build -type f -name "bcc-node") /usr/local/bin/bcc-node

Test Versioning with

bcc-cli --version 
bcc-node --version

Additional build methods -========================

Docker image - ============

You can pull the docker image with the latest version of bcc-node from here.

docker pull tbco/bcc-node

Additional documentation for building the node will be available soon.

Linux Executable - Soon available at hydra.quantumone.network ==================

You can download the latest version of bcc-node and bcc-cli:

• linux
• win64
• macos

Windows Executable - NOT AVAILABLE ==================

Download

You can download here.

Instructions

The download includes bcc-node.exe and a .dll. To run the node with bcc-node run you need to reference a few files and directories as arguments. These can be copied from the bcc-node repo into the executables directory. The command to run the node on mainnet looks like this:

bcc-node.exe run --topology ./mainnet-topology.json --database-path ./state --port 3001 --config ./configuration-mainnet.yaml --socket-path \\.\pipe\bcc-node

bcc-node

This refers to the client that is used for running a node.

The general synopsis is as follows:

Usage: bcc-node run [--topology FILEPATH] [--database-path FILEPATH]
                        [--socket-path FILEPATH]
                        [--cole-delegation-certificate FILEPATH]
                        [--cole-signing-key FILEPATH]
                        [--sophie-kes-key FILEPATH]
                        [--sophie-vrf-key FILEPATH]
                        [--sophie-operational-certificate FILEPATH]
                        [--host-addr IPV4-ADDRESS]
                        [--host-ipv6-addr IPV6-ADDRESS]
                        [--port PORT]
                        [--config NODE-CONFIGURATION] [--validate-db]
  Run the node.

• --topology - Filepath to a topology file describing which peers the node should connect to.
• --database-path - Path to the blockchain database.
• --cole-delegation-certificate - Optional path to the Cole delegation certificate. The delegation certificate allows the delegator (the issuer of said certificate) to give his/her own block signing rights to somebody else (the delegatee). The delegatee can then sign blocks on behalf of the delegator.
• --cole-signing-key - Optional path to the Cole signing key.
• --sophie-signing-key - Optional path to the Sophie signing key.
• --sophie-kes-key - Optional path to the Sophie KES signing key.
• --sophie-vrf-key - Optional path to the Sophie VRF signing key.
• --sophie-operational-certificate - Optional path to the Sophie operational certificate.
• --socket-path - Path to the socket file.
• --host-addr - Optionally specify your node's IPv4 address.
• --host-ipv6-addr - Optionally specify your node's IPv6 address.
• --port - Specify which port to assign to the node.
• --config - Specify the filepath to the config .yaml file. This file is responsible for all the other node's required settings. See examples in configuration (e.g. config-0.yaml).
• --validate-db - Flag to revalidate all on-disk database files

Configuration .yaml files

The --config flag points to a .yaml file that is responsible to configuring the logging & other important settings for the node. E.g. see the Cole mainnet configuration in this configuration.yaml. Some of the more important settings are as follows:

• Protocol: RealPBFT -- Protocol the node will execute
• RequiresNetworkMagic: RequiresNoMagic -- Used to distinguish between mainnet (RequiresNoMagic) and testnets (RequiresMagic)

Logging

Logs are output to the logs/ dir.

Profiling & statistics

Profiling data and RTS run stats are stored in the profile/ dir.

Please see scripts/README.md for how to obtain profiling information using the scripts.

Scripts

Please see scripts/README.md for information on the various scripts.

bcc-cli

A CLI utility to support a variety of key material operations (genesis, migration, pretty-printing..) for different system generations. Usage documentation can be found at bcc-cli/README.md.

The general synopsis is as follows:

Usage: bcc-cli (Era based commands | Cole specific commands | Miscellaneous commands)

> NOTE: the exact invocation command depends on the environment. If you have only built bcc-cli, without installing it, then you have to prepend cabal run -- before bcc-cli. We henceforth assume that the necessary environment-specific adjustment has been made, so we only mention bcc-cli.

The subcommands are subdivided in groups, and their full list can be seen in the output of bcc-cli --help.

All subcommands have help available. For example:

cabal run -- bcc-cli -- cole key migrate-delegate-key-from --help

bcc-cli -- cole key migrate-delegate-key-from
Usage: bcc-cli cole key migrate-delegate-key-from --from FILEPATH
                                                       --to FILEPATH
  Migrate a delegate key from an older version.


Available options:
  --cole-legacy-formats   Cole/bcc-sl formats and compatibility
  --cole-formats          Cole era formats and compatibility
  --from FILEPATH          Signing key file to migrate.
  --to FILEPATH            Non-existent file to write the signing key to.
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Genesis operations

Generation

The Cole genesis generation operations will create a directory that contains:

• genesis.json: The genesis JSON file itself.
• avvm-seed.*.seed: Bcc Voucher Vending Machine seeds (secret). Affected by --avvm-entry-count and --avvm-entry-balance.
• delegate-keys.*.key: Delegate private keys. Affected by: --n-delegate-addresses.
• delegation-cert.*.json: Delegation certificates. Affected by: --n-delegate-addresses.
• genesis-keys.*.key: Genesis stake private keys. Affected by: --n-delegate-addresses, --total-balance.
• poor-keys.*.key: Non-delegate private keys with genesis UTxO. Affected by: --n-poor-addresses, --total-balance.

More details on the Cole Genesis JSON file can be found in docs/reference/cole-genesis.md

Cole genesis delegation and related concepts are described in detail in:

https://hydra.tbco.io/job/Bcc/bcc-ledger-specs/coleLedgerSpec/latest/download-by-type/doc-pdf/ledger-spec

The canned scripts/benchmarking/genesis.sh example provides a nice set of defaults and illustrates available options.

Key operations

Note that key operations do not support password-protected keys.

Signing key generation & verification key extraction

Signing keys can be generated using the keygen subcommand.

Extracting a verification key out of the signing key is performed by the to-verification subcommand.

Delegate key migration

In order to continue using a delegate key from the Cole Legacy era in the new implementation, it needs to be migrated over, which is done by the migrate-delegate-key-from subcommand:

$ cabal v2-run -- bcc-cli cole key migrate-delegate-key-from
        --from key0.sk --to key0Converted.sk

Signing key queries

One can gather information about a signing key's properties through the signing-key-public and signing-key-address subcommands (the latter requires the network magic):

$ cabal v2-run -- bcc-cli cole key signing-key-public --cole-formats --secret key0.sk

public key hash: a2b1af0df8ca764876a45608fae36cf04400ed9f413de2e37d92ce04
public key: sc4pa1pAriXO7IzMpByKo4cG90HCFD465Iad284uDYz06dHCqBwMHRukReQ90+TA/vQpj4L1YNaLHI7DS0Z2Vg==

$ cabal v2-run -- bcc-cli signing-key-address --cole-formats --secret key0.pbft --testnet-magic 42

2cWKMJemoBakxhXgZSsMteLP9TUvz7owHyEYbUDwKRLsw2UGDrG93gPqmpv1D9ohWNddx
VerKey address with root e5a3807d99a1807c3f161a1558bcbc45de8392e049682df01809c488, attributes: AddrAttributes { derivation path: {} }

Transactions

Creation

Transactions can be created via the issue-genesis-utxo-expenditure & issue-utxo-expenditure commands.

The easiest way to create a transaction is via the scripts/benchmarking/issue-genesis-utxo-expenditure.sh script as follows:

./scripts/benchmarking/issue-genesis-utxo-expenditure.sh transaction_file

NB: This by default creates a transaction based on configuration/defaults/liveview/config-0.yaml

If you do not have a genesis_file you can run scripts/benchmarking/genesis.sh which will create an example genesis_file for you. The script scripts/benchmarking/issue-genesis-utxo-expenditure.sh has defaults for all the requirements of the issue-genesis-utxo-expenditure command.

Submission

The submit-tx subcommand provides the option of submitting a pre-signed transaction, in its raw wire format (see GenTx for Cole transactions).

The canned scripts/benchmarking/submit-tx.sh script will submit the supplied transaction to a testnet launched by scripts/benchmarking/sophie-testnet-liveview.sh script.

Issuing UTxO expenditure (genesis and regular)

To make a transaction spending UTxO, you can either use the:

• issue-genesis-utxo-expenditure, for genesis UTxO
• issue-utxo-expenditure, for normal UTxO

subcommands directly, or, again use canned scripts that will make transactions tailored for the aforementioned testnet cluster:

• scripts/benchmarking/issue-genesis-utxo-expenditure.sh.
• scripts/benchmarking/issue-utxo-expenditure.sh.

The script requires the target file name to write the transaction to, input TxId (for normal UTxO), and optionally allows specifying the source txin output index, source and target signing keys and entropic value to send.

The target address defaults to the 1-st richman key (configuration/delegate-keys.001.key) of the testnet, and entropic amount is almost the entirety of its funds.

Local node queries

You can query the tip of your local node via the get-tip command as follows

1. Open tmux
2. Run cabal build bcc-node
3. Run ./scripts/lite/sophie-testnet.sh example
4. Run ``export BCC_NODE_SOCKET_PATH=/bcc-node/example/socket/node-1-socket
5. cabal exec bcc-cli -- get-tip --testnet-magic 42

You will see output from stdout in this format:

Current tip:
Block hash: 4ab21a10e1b25e39
Slot: 6
Block number: 5

Update proposals

Update proposal creation

A Cole update proposal can be created as follows:

bcc-cli -- cole governance
               create-update-proposal
                 (--mainnet | --testnet-magic NATURAL)
                 --signing-key FILEPATH
                 --protocol-version-major WORD16
                 --protocol-version-sentry WORD16
                 --application-name STRING
                 --software-version-num WORD32
                 --system-tag STRING
                 --installer-hash HASH
                 --filepath FILEPATH
               ..

The mandatory arguments are --mainnet | --testnet-magic, signing-key, protocol-version-major, protocol-version-sentry, application-name, software-version-num, system-tag, installer-hash and filepath.

The remaining arguments are optional parameters you want to update in your update proposal.

You can also check your proposal's validity using the validate-cbor command. See: Validate CBOR files.

See the Cole specification for more details on update proposals.

Update proposal submission

You can submit your proposal using the submit-update-proposal command.

Example:

bcc-cli -- cole governance
            submit-update-proposal
            --config configuration/defaults/mainnet/configuration.yaml
            (--mainnet | --testnet-magic NATURAL)
            --filepath my-update-proposal

See the Cole specification for more deatils on update proposals.

Update proposal voting

You can create and submit cole update proposal votes with the create-proposal-vote & submit-proposal-vote commands. The following are two example commands:

Cole vote creation:

cabal exec bcc-cli -- cole governance create-proposal-vote
                       (--mainnet | --testnet-magic NATURAL)
                       --signing-key configuration/defaults/liveview/genesis/delegate-keys.000.key
                       --proposal-filepath ProtocolUpdateProposalFile
                       --vote-yes
                       --output-filepath UpdateProposalVoteFile

Cole vote submission:

cabal exec bcc-cli -- cole governance submit-proposal-vote
                       (--mainnet | --testnet-magic NATURAL)
                       --filepath UpdateProposalVoteFile

Development

GHCID

run ghcid with: ghcid -c "cabal repl exe:bcc-node --reorder-goals"

Haskell Language Server

When using Haskell Langague Server with Visual Studio Code, you may find that HLINT annotations are ignored<haskell/haskell-language-server#638>.

To work around this, you may run the script ./scripts/reconfigure-hlint.sh to generate a .hlint.yaml file with HLINT ignore rules derived from the source code.

Testing

bcc-node is essentially a container which implements several components such networking, consensus, and storage. These components have individual test coverage. The node goes through integration and release testing by Devops/QA while automated CLI tests are ongoing alongside development.

Developers on bcc-node can launch their own testnets or run the chairman tests locally.

Chairman tests

Debugging

Pretty printing CBOR encoded files

It may be useful to print the on chain representations of blocks, delegation certificates, txs and update proposals. There are two commands that do this (for any cbor encoded file):

To pretty print as CBOR: cabal exec bcc-cli -- pretty-print-cbor --filepath CBOREncodedFile

Validate CBOR files

You can validate Cole era blocks, delegation certificates, txs and update proposals with the validate-cbor command.

cabal exec bcc-cli -- validate-cbor --cole-block 21600 --filepath CBOREncodedColeBlockFile

Native Tokens

Native tokens is a new feature that enables the transacting of multi-assets on Bcc. Native tokens are now supported on mainnet and users can transact with bcc, and an unlimited number of user-defined (custom) tokens natively.

To help you get started we have compiled a handy list of resources: #TODO

Bcc Forum discussion

Documentation for native tokens

You can also read more about native tokens and how they compare to bcc and ERC20. Browse native tokens created on the Bcc blockchain and see their transactions in an interactive dashboard that allows filtering and searching: nativetokens.da.iogservices.io.