VOIDChain - A simple and high-performant distributed ledger technology platform

Made For

• Polytechnic of Leiria
• VOID Software

Description

Implementation of a simple and high-performant distributed ledger technologies platform, VOIDChain, based on a popular Byzantine Fault-Tolerant state machine replication Java library, BFT-SMaRt. Development of an API REST service in conjunction with this application, which is available here.

Objective

• Investigating distributed ledger technologies, crypto coins and consensus algorithm concepts and relate that knowledge with BFT-SMaRt.
• Development of actors to populate the network, such as nodes and lightweight clients.
• Development of a client wallet for storing asymmetric keys and transactions.

Built With

• BFT-SMaRt - A high-performance Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication library
• BouncyCastle - A cryptography API provider
• AdoptOpenJDK v11 - Community driven provider for OpenJDK binaries
• IntelliJ IDEA - Java IDE
• bitcoinj - Java implementation of Bitcoin protocol
• Maven - Compilation Automation and dependency manager tool

Planning tools

• Trello - Web-based Kanban-style list-making application
• Microsoft Teams - Unified communication and collaboration platform
• GitKraken Timelines - Timeline maker for communicating project milestones & deadlines
• MindMeister - Online mind mapping application

Versioning

We used GitKraken for versioning.

Authors

• Pedro Galveias - Student Number: 2161966
• Pedro Moleiro - Student Number: 2171264