Project Aurum

Aurum is a proprietary UIC ACM blockchain project. The current planned use case is a token to be exchanged among students.

Motivation

To create a working blockchain and learn about the technology behind it. SIG Blockchain Developers use software engineering techniques to construct a complex, collaborative, and efficient product.

Build status

Tech/framework used

Built with

• Golang
• Docker

Features

Aurum Phase One is a centralized private blockchain that provides users with the ability to exchange tokens with each other. Future support for decentralizing Aurum will be implemented once the network grows to a sustainable level for decentralization.

Installation

under development

API Reference

under development

Tests

Run go test -v at project root.

Docker

To build an image of the producer:

• change current directory to project_aurum/producer
• run docker build -t aurum_producer:0.1 .

To run an instance of the producer:

• docker run -p 13131:13131 aurum_producer:0.1

To run the compose file:

• docker-compose run --service-ports prod Or
• docker-compose up prod

How to use?

under development

Contribute

If you would like to contribute, please comment on an issue you'd like to take on. Then, make a branch based on dev. Once you've completed the issue make a pull request from your branch to dev. If you have any questions simply ask in a comment on the issue.

Credits

• First and foremost a big thank you to everyone who has worked on the SIG Blockchain team, both past and present.
• Thank you to the Association of Computing Machinery UIC Chapter, for providing the support that SIG Blockchain has needed to thrive.
• Shoutout to calvinmorett for providing us with the awesome Aurum logo.

License

MIT License

• See the LICENSE file for details.