fatd

This repo contains the Golang reference implementation of the Factom Asset Tokens protocol. This repo provides two executables for interacting with FAT chains, as well as several Golang packages for use by external programs.

fatd - Factom Asset Token Daemon - Alpha

A daemon written in Golang that discovers new Factom Asset Tokens chains and maintains their current state. The daemon provides a JSON-RPC 2.0 API for accessing data about token chains.

fat-cli

A CLI for creating new FAT chains, as well as exploring and making transactions on existing FAT chains. See the output from fat-cli --help for more information.

Development Status

This implementation is now at a v1.0 release, which means that the public APIs, both Golang and the JSON-RPC endpoint are version locked. This also means that we believe the code to be stable and secure. That being said, the FAT system and really the entire blockchain industry is experimental.

Please help us improve the code and the protocol by trying to break things and reporting bugs! Thank you!

Binaries

Pre-compiled binaries for Linux, Windows, and Mac x86_64 systems can be found on the releases page. However, building from source is very easy on most platforms.

Install with Docker 🐳

Build the Docker image:

$ docker build -t fatd github.com/Factom-Asset-Tokens/fatd

Create a volume for the fatd database:

$ docker volume create fatd_db

Run fatd:

$ docker run -d --name=fatd --network=host -v "fatd_db:/fatd.db" fatd [fatd options]

Building From Source

Build Dependencies

This project uses SQLite3 which uses CGo to compile and statically link the SQLite3 C libraries to the fatd Golang binary. CGo requires that GCC be available on your system.

The following dependencies are required to build fatd and fat-cli.

• Golang 1.13 or later. The latest official release of Golang is always recommended.
• GNU GCC is used by CGo to link to the SQLite3 shared libraries.
• Git is used to clone the project and is used by go build to pull some dependencies.
• GNU Bash is used by a small script which determines a build version number.
• GNU Make is used to execute build commands.

How To Build

Ensure that Go Modules are enabled by cloning this project outside of your GOPATH.

$ git clone https://github.com/Factom-Asset-Tokens/fatd.git
$ cd fatd
$ make

You should now see the fatd and fat-cli binaries for your platform in the current directory.

You can also build binaries for all platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac):

$ make distribution

Installing

You can install and run the fatd and fat-cli binaries from anywhere, so you may select where you wish to install these on your system.

However, be aware that fatd will look for a directory named fatd.db in the current working directory and will create it if it does not exist. So if you start fatd from a new location then you will likely want to point it to use an existing database using the -dbpath flag.

CLI completion

If you are using Bash or Zsh with completion you can install CLI completion for fatd and fat-cli using the -installcompletion flag on each command.

$ fatd -installcompletion
Install completion for fatd? y
Installing...
Done!
$ fat-cli --installcompletion
Install completion for fat-cli? y
Installing...
Done!

This only adds lines to your .bash_profile or Zsh equivalent. So you must restart your shell or source your .bash_profile for the completion to take effect.

This only needs to be performed once and does not need to be repeated again when fatd or fat-cli is updated.

Getting started

The Daemon needs a connection to factomd's API. This defaults to http://localhost:8088 and can be specified with -s.

Start the daemon from the command line:

INFO Fatd Version: v0.6.0.r110.g73bdb76            pkg=main
INFO Loading chain databases from /home/aslevy/.fatd/mainnet/...  pkg=engine
INFO State engine started.                         pkg=main
INFO Listening on :8078...                         pkg=srv
INFO JSON RPC API server started.                  pkg=main
INFO Factom Asset Token Daemon started.            pkg=main
INFO Searching for new FAT chains from block 163181 to 215642...  pkg=engine
INFO Tracking new FAT chain: b54c4310530dc4dd361101644fa55cb10aec561e7874a7b786ea3b66f2c6fdfb  pkg=engine
INFO Syncing...                                    chain=b54c4310530dc4dd361101644fa55cb10aec561e7874a7b786ea3b66f2c6fdfb
INFO Synced.                                       chain=b54c4310530dc4dd361101644fa55cb10aec561e7874a7b786ea3b66f2c6fdfb

At this point fatd has synced the first ever created FAT chain on mainnet, which is for testing purposes. It is continuing to scan for all valid FAT chains so it can track them.

If you know the chain id of a FAT chain you are interested in, you can fast sync it by using the -whitelist flag.

The daemon can be stopped and restarted and syncing will resume from the latest point. By default the database directory is ~/.fatd/. It can be specified with -dbdir.

Once the JSON RPC API is started, fat-cli can be used to query about synced chains, transactions and balances.

For a complete an up-to-date list of flags & options please see fatd -h and fat-cli -h.

Create a chain, make transactions

Interact with the FAT daemon RPC from the command line

Token Initialization & Transaction Walk Through

RPC API Documentation

Default http://localhost:8078/v1

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md