Distributed Cryptocurrency Exchange

University Project for "Distributed Systems and Middleware Technologies" course (MSc Computer Engineering @ University of Pisa). Implementation of a Distributed Cryptocurrency Exchange using Erlang and ReactJs.

Overview

The application consists of a distributed cryptocurrency exchange composed by the following nodes:

• The Nginx server to host the frontend webapp
• The Nginx load balancer between clients and backend
• Three Coin Nodes that handle client requests and provide the service
• The Main Server that creates and handles the cluster of nodes

A user of the application can perform the follwing actions:

• Login/Logout
• Visualize a list of all assets associated with their market value
• Choose an asset and visualize its market value history
• Place buy and sell orders at current market value
• Place buy and sell orders at a desired market value
• Cancel pending orders
• Add money and assets to his/her wallet
• Visualize owned assets and available balance
• Visualize pending orders and transaction history

Getting Started

In order to deploy the project, Docker Compose is used. The deployed application can be accessed at url http://localhost.

Create and run containers:

docker compose -p distributed-cryptocurrency-exchange up -d --build

Stop and remove containers:

docker compose -p distributed-cryptocurrency-exchange down

Project Architecture

Distributed-Crypocurrency-Exchange
├── docs
└── src
    ├── backend
    │   ├── coin_node
    │   ├── load_balancer
    │   └── mian_server    
    ├── frontend
    └── docker-compose.yaml

Authors

• Biagio Cornacchia, b.cornacchia@studenti.unipi.it
• Gianluca Gemini, g.gemini@studenti.unipi.it
• Matteo Abaterusso, m.abaterusso@studenti.unipi.it