🌌 AetherWave Blockchain Messenger Network

A secure and decentralized peer-to-peer messaging system built on blockchain technology. Send encrypted messages across a distributed network while maintaining transparency and integrity through blockchain verification.

✨ Features

This project demonstrates a basic blockchain-based messaging system with the following features:

• Distributed blockchain for message storage
• Encrypted messaging using AES-256
• Peer-to-peer network with gossip-based peer discovery
• Proof-of-work consensus mechanism

The system is split into four main components:

• blockchain.go: Core blockchain implementation
• crypto.go: Encryption/decryption utilities
• node.go: P2P networking and peer discovery
• main.go: Application entry point and demonstration

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Go 1.18 or higher
• Basic understanding of blockchain concepts
• Basic knowledge of Go programming

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:freeeakn/AetherWave.git
cd AetherWave

2. Ensure you have Go installed:

go version

3. Run the application:

make

🖥️ Usage

The current implementation runs a simple demonstration:

Creates a blockchain Adds sample encrypted messages between "Danya" and "Asur" Prints the blockchain contents and decrypted messages Starts a P2P network with three nodes

go run ./src -address="localhost:port" -name="Danya"

go run ./src -address="localhost:port" -peer="<ip of another peer>:port" -name="Asur" -key="KeyOfAnotherPeer"

Project structure

src/
├── blockchain.go    # Blockchain implementation
├── crypto.go        # Encryption utilities
├── node.go          # Networking and peer discovery
└── main.go          # Main application
README.md            # This file

Features

Blockchain

1. Stores messages as transactions
2. Implements proof-of-work mining
3. Verifies chain integrity

Encryption

1. AES-256 encryption for messages
2. Secure key generation

Networking

1. TCP-based P2P communication
2. Gossip-based peer discovery
3. Periodic peer list broadcasting

Extending the Project

Potential improvements:

1. Add persistent storage
2. Implement proper key management
3. Add user authentication
4. Enhance consensus mechanism
5. Add message broadcasting
6. Implement a user interface
7. Error handling
8. Message validation
9. Proper network synchronization
10. Message threading

🤝 Contributing

Fork the repository Create a feature branch Submit a pull request with your changes

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

📡 From AetherWave team with love

freeeakn Routybor