SafeStake

What is it?

A decentralised application on the Ethereum blockchain allowing investors to stake poker players for a share of the winnings.

A trustless alternative to forum-based staking, SafeStake uses escrow smart contracts to eliminate the trust-based risk taken on by an investor when staking a poker player.

Usage Requirements

In its current state, SafeStake requires users wanting to make use of its staking features to have the Metamask browser extension available on their browser.

To run SafeStake locally:

Requirements

1. Ganache
2. Metamask
3. truffle - npm install -g truffle

Steps

1. Launch local Ganache blockchain
2. npm install in top-level directory
3. truffle compile && truffle migrate in top-level directory to compile and deploy the smart contracts to the local blockchain
4. cd client && npm start to start the local web server
5. Add a new network to Metamask - select "Custom RPC" from the networks dropdown, set the URL to http://127.0.0.1:7545/ and the chain ID to 1337 (the Ganache defaults)
6. Import an account listed in the Ganache workspace into metamask by copying over the private key.
7. Connect to the site!