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BlinkTrade

BlinkTrade - Open Source Exchange Platform

How to install on Google Compute Engine

Get Started

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Build and Run

Download and install the pyblinktrade package from https://github.com/blinktrade/pyblinktrade

cd ~
cd pyblinktrade
chmod +x setup.py
sudo ./setup.py install

Download and install the frontend project from https://github.com/blinktrade/frontend.git

$ cd ./jsdev
$ ./build_release.sh  # Or ./build_release.bat [Windows]

$ ./apps/trade/main.py
$ ./apps/ws_gateway/main.py
$ ./apps/mailer/main.py

Applications - Trade

Matching engine and the core of the BitEx platform

Applications - Ws Gateway

The HTTP/WebSocket gateway is based on Tornado. It relays HTTP or websocket API requests to the trade engine in order to place orders or fetching market data.

Applications - Mailer

The mailing application... sends mail. To that end, it uses Mailchimp's transaction email solution, Mandrill.

E-mail templates are stored under the templates/ dir, and which template to use (and the data to fill it out) are supplied by listening on the zeromq socket.

Translating

cd ./jsdev/tools
$ python extract_messages.py  > /tmp/file_to_be_translated.xml

# translate the xml
$ cp /tmp/file_to_be_translated.xml  ./jsdev/translations/pt_BR.xtb

# edit the build_release.sh to include the translated version.
$ vi ./jsdev/build_release.sh

$ ./jsdev/build_release.sh  # recompile the application using the translated file

# translated the html static page
# vi ./static/statoshi_square.html

Why the name of the folder is Bitex ?

Bitex stands for Bitcoin EXchange and it was the first that we came up it name of our platform, by mid 2014 a company called bitex.la was formed in Argentina and we were forced to change our name, this source code it is not related in any form to bitex.la.

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request

License

Code released under the GNU GPL license.

Copyright 2014 BitEx, LTDA. BitEx is a trademark maintained by BitEx, LTDA.

VIOLATORS OF THE GNU GPL LICENSE WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW FREE SOFTWARE FOR FREE PEOPLE