wallet-commander-cli

Wallet Commander CLI

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Introduction

The Wallet Commander is used for signing blockchain operations for 3rd party platforms.

For blockchains like Axie Infinity's Ronin network, it's not possible to deploy smart contracts to execute complex operations in a decentralized fashion.

In general, decentralized finance may require the processing of large amounts of data. This is inefficient to store on the blockchain; it is far more efficient to only derive a set of transactions to be executed.

With the rise in GameFi, investors are managing thousands of wallets and are required to sign many transactions with many private keys, which is cumbersome.

The Wallet Commander command line interface (CLI) enables 3rd party platforms to calculate a set of blockchain transactions which can be picked up and signed by the owner of the set of wallets.

This project is designed to be open for anyone to share and build on top of. Starting with Earn Alliance as the first approved platform to be pre-built into the CLI, the CLI should be flexible to accept commands from any Wallet Commander API server without the need to create a custom command.

How it Works

A platform may provide a Wallet Commander GraphQL API server which has a queue of blockchain operations they wish their customers to sign.

The wallet-commander CLI picks up commands and signs the requests on behalf of the platform.

The CLI will have access to locally stored private keys and (soon) a whitelist of operations that are allowed to be done with the keys.

Upon signing the operation, the transaction or error will be provided to the Wallet Commander GraphQL API server.

Depending on what was written, the server should then verify that the transaction has been successful, retry on failure or provide user feedback on the platform about the error.

Installation

The following instructions will enable you to install the CLI locally on your machine so you may process commands from a 3rd party platform.

Mac / Linux

Requirements

• Ensure unzip is installed on your linux machine. If you don't already have it, install it using sudo apt-get install -y unzip or a similar command depending on your linux distro.

Run the following installation script to install the wallet-commander CLI to its default location usr/local/bin

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/earn-alliance/wallet-commander-cli/main/install.sh | bash

Windows

Requirements

• Windows 7 SP1+ / Windows Server 2008+
• PowerShell 5 (or later, include PowerShell Core)
• PowerShell must be enabled for your user account e.g. Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
• Run PowerShell as Administrator to avoid any errors.

Run the following command from your PowerShell to install the wallet-commander CLI to its default location C:\Users\<user>\wallet-commander

Invoke-Expression (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/earn-alliance/wallet-commander-cli/main/install.ps1')

OR

iwr -useb raw.githubusercontent.com/earn-alliance/wallet-commander-cli/main/install.ps1 | iex

Note: You can also download the latest available release for your Operating System from releases and add it to your global PATH manually.

Usage

Currently, there is only one command available for the CLI.

wallet-commander start {platform-name} --client-id {client-id}

This starts processing all pending operations that the platform wishes you to sign.

When signing up for the platform, there should be a client-id available for you to enter. In the future, there will be a secret key pair required.

Current platform names that are supported:

• earn-alliance

Local Development

To contribute to developing this CLI, you need goland v1.17 or higher installed.

Regenerating Contracts

You must have abigen installed.

Mac Installation

brew tap ethereum/ethereum
brew install ethereum

Linux Installation

sudo apt-get install ethereum-unstable

Once abigen is installed, you can then run ./regenerate_contracts.sh which will apply all ./abis contracts into ./pkg/abi/. We use ABIs format for ease of customizing the smart contracts that we wish to call.

Contributing

Project Structure

Wallet Commander CLI follows the following temporary structure which will be refactored in the near future.

wallet-commander-cli
 |── internal
     ├── cli - all cli business logic and bootstrapping
     ├── config - basic configuration such as version for CLI
     ├── controller - business logic for signing wallet commands
     ├── log - functionality for bootstrapping logging
     ├── query - (refactor => store) all wallet commander graphql API queries reside here
     ├── server - (refactor => client) running executable that connects to wallet-commander server
     ├── store - all business logic for executing wallet commander graphql API queries
     ├── types - all structs for wallet-commander business logic
     └── vault - logic for loading private keys
 |── internal
      ├── abi - (refactor => go-axie-infinity-client) auto-generated blockchain smart contract clients
      ├── api - public wallet commander API structs
      ├── client (refactor => go-axie-infinity-client) client for on-chain and off-chain data for axie infinity
      ├── constants - (refactor => go-axie-client) constants used for client
      ├── store - (refactor => go-axie-client) in-memory JWT token store and future utils for caching API calls
      ├── types - (refactor => go-axie-client) client types
      └── wallet - (refactor => client) 3rd party developer created a 2nd client here for wallets

Needed Help

Listed below are urgent tasks required to get this client cleaned up for production use. More tasks to come.

• Whitelist functionality to block illegal transactions
• Refactor out all axie client related logic in pkg to a 3rd party repo go-axie-infinity-client
• Create functionality to target custom platform to consume events
• Document client and server API
• Check for CLI updates every 24 hours
• Environment variable options for CLI arguments --client-id { } OR ${CLIENT_ID}
• Server docker image
• Support dynamic private keys from 3rd party DB

Future

In the future, wallet-commander will have a public API where 3rd party platforms can escrow encrypted blockchain operations, which can be redeemed after paying a fee.

Initially the backend API server will be closed-source, but anyone may build their own backends or platforms and receive fees for enabling usage within the community.

Reach out to discuss more about the future of the project on Discord.