This blockchain prototype is built to investigate the possibilities of blockchain for the high-frequency supplychain network. This blockchain prototype specializes in b2c/b2b online orders, flowing through the supplychain. The webshop creates an SKU and is able to create an unlimited amount of supply for that SKU. Then the webshop can send supply to other parties in the entire supplychain. Only parties who own supply can transfer it to another; the webshop stays in control of the SKU data and total supply.
Learn more about the Logistichain components, guidelines and design rationale in the documentation section. Please be aware that docs are being written at this time. Some docs might be empty, but existing docs are up-to-date.
The blockchain protocol is heavily based on bitcoin, but is built from scratch in C# with dotnet core 2.1. The blockchain network must handle atleast 200,000 transactions every day.
Download the repository files to your local file system and open up a command prompt in the src/ folder to execute the following commands:
dotnet restore
dotnet build -c release
dotnet publish -c release -r {supporting-platform}Now navigate to src/Logistichain.Node/bin/Release/netcoreapp2.0/{supporting-platform} and there you will find the executable, named Logistichain.Node. Run the executable.
Get familiar with the commands by doing some functional tests.
Docker is not yet supported.
This prototype contains a few bugs. All bugs will be reported in the Github issue tracker.
This prototype is capable of handling different 'actions' in transactions to register supplychain activities:
Every action costs a certain amount of fee (in tokens):
Every class which consists logic must have an interface, unless explicitly explained otherwise. Using interfaces allows design patterns to be implemented properly and it enhances testability and inversion of control. We also use method overloading instead of default parameters. When you contribute to this project, please read more about our code conventions.