Meter is the most decentralized and fasted Ethereum sidechain network with a native metastable gas currency

This is the first implementation written in golang.

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Getting the source
  • Dependency management
  • Building
• Running Meter
  • Sub-commands
• Docker
• Explorers
• Faucet
• RESTful API
• Acknowledgement
• Contributing

Meter requires Go 1.12+ and C compiler to build. To install Go, follow this link.

Clone the meter-pov repo:

git clone https://github.com/meterio/meter-pov.git
cd meter-pov

Simply run:

make dep

To manually install dependencies, choices are

• dep, Golang's official dependency management tool

  dep ensure -vendor-only
  

  (Note that to make dep work, you should put the source code at $GOPATH/src/github.com/dfinlab/meter)

• git submodule

  git submodule update --init
  

To build the main app meter, just run

make

You might encounter problems like this during make:

vendor/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto/secp256k1/curve.go:43:44: fatal error: libsecp256k1/include/secp256k1.h: No such file or directory
 #include "libsecp256k1/include/secp256k1.h"
                                            ^
compilation terminated.

Then solution will be like this:

go get github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
cp -r \
  "${GOPATH}/src/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto/secp256k1/libsecp256k1" \
  "vendor/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto/secp256k1/"

or build the full suite:

make all

If no error reported, all built executable binaries will appear in folder bin.

Connect to Meter's mainnet:

bin/meter --network main

Connect to VeChain's testnet:

bin/meter --network warringstakes

To find out usages of all command line options:

bin/meter -h

• --network value the network to join (main|test)
• --data-dir value directory for block-chain databases
• --beneficiary value address for block rewards
• --api-addr value API service listening address (default: "localhost:8669")
• --api-cors value comma separated list of domains from which to accept cross origin requests to API
• --verbosity value log verbosity (0-9) (default: 3)
• --max-peers value maximum number of P2P network peers (P2P network disabled if set to 0) (default: 25)
• --p2p-port value P2P network listening port (default: 11235)
• --nat value port mapping mechanism (any|none|upnp|pmp|extip:) (default: "none")
• --help, -h show help
• --version, -v print the version
• --force-last-kframe force the node to take nonce from last k-block, you don't need this when you start the node with genesis block
• --gen-kframe periodically generate k-block data
• --skip-signature-check skip the signature check (ONLY for debug)

• master-key import and export master key

# export master key to keystore
bin/meter master-key --export > keystore.json


# import master key from keystore
cat keystore.json | bin/meter master-key --import

Docker is one quick way for running a meter node:

docker run --network host --name meter -e NETWORK="main" -v /home/ubuntu/meter-main:/pos -d meterio/mainnet:latest

Do not forget to add the --api-addr 0.0.0.0:8669 flag if you want other containers and/or hosts to have access to the RESTful API. Meter binds to localhost by default and it will not accept requests outside the container itself without the flag.

The Dockerfile is designed to build the last release of the source code and will publish docker images to dockerhub by release, feel free to fork and build Dockerfile for your own purpose.

Awesome explorers built by the meter team:

• Testnet Explorer
• Mainnet Explorer

• Testnet Faucet
• Mainnet Faucet

Once meter started, online OpenAPI doc can be accessed in your browser. e.g. http://localhost:8669/ by default.

A Special shout out to following projects:

• Ethereum

• Swagger

Thanks you so much for considering to help out with the source code! We welcome contributions from anyone on the internet, and are grateful for even the smallest of fixes!

Please fork, fix, commit and send a pull request for the maintainers to review and merge into the main code base.

When you "Fork" the project, GitHub will make a copy of the project that is entirely yours; it lives in your namespace, and you can push to it.

Please check the following:

• Code must be adhere to the official Go Formatting guidelines.
• Get the branch up to date, by merging in any recent changes from the master branch.

• On the GitHub site, go to "Code". Then click the green "Compare and Review" button. Your branch is probably in the "Example Comparisons" list, so click on it. If not, select it for the "compare" branch.
• Make sure you are comparing your new branch to master. It probably won't be, since the front page is the latest release branch, rather than master now. So click the base branch and change it to master.
• Press Create Pull Request button.
• Give a brief title.
• Explain the major changes you are asking to be code reviewed. Often it is useful to open a second tab in your browser where you can look through the diff yourself to remind yourself of all the changes you have made.

Right now, only node mode is supported. solo mode is not supported anymore. The next few steps will show you how to setup a cluster with 2 nodes (named as node1 and node2)

1. prepare the binary and copy it to node1 and node2 (take a look at build instruction )
2. run the binary first with ./bin/meter --network test --verbosity 9
3. take a note on the enode id for node1, you could find it in log here:

INFO[03-30|10:53:15] start up                                 pkg=p2psrv self="enode://0f73e6fad8ee070940d50ad326067c096696865398843e09d837a11ae2006a1df8688d01e0bd93a4c2db4253e571a514fc6f7c03e16c0b588044fdd082c2a145@[::]:11235?discport=0"

The enode://xxxx@[::]:11235 part is the enode, replace the [::] part with actual ip of node1

4. now you need to prepare a config file named delegates.json, a sample file looks like this:

[
    {
        "address" : "a0da10fa4e8e810c4ef3f9a3cd8091a7b10e05fd",
        "pub_key" : "node1-pub-key",
        "voting_power" : "90",
        "network_addr" : {
            "id" : "1000",
            "ip" : "node1-ip",
            "port" : 8080,
            "name" : "nod1"
        },
        "accum" : "7689255112978"
    },
    {
        "address" : "d4be94fda23e12ee656b5123c9ac80bbf81971a5",
        "pub_key" : "node2-pub-key",
        "voting_power" : "100",
        "network_addr" : {
            "id" : "1001",
            "ip" : "node2-ip",
            "port" : 8080,
            "name" : "node2"
        },
        "accum" : "2057045235008"
    }
]

replace node1-ip with ip of node1 replace node1-pub-key with content from ~/.com.dfinlab.meter/public.key on node1 replace node2-ip with ip of node2 replace node2-pub-key with content from ~/.com.dfinlab.meter/public.key on node2

5. copy delegates.json on to node1 and node2, place it under ~/.com.dfinlab.meter/delegates.json

6. now you're ready to boot up

on node1, use ./bin/meter --network test --verbosity 9 on node2, use ./bin/meter --network test --verbosity 9 --peers [enode-id-of-node1]

7. if you see from the log that block has been generated with consensus, everything is up and running!

A sample log for commited block:

INFO[02-12|14:45:40]
===========================================================
Block commited at height 1
===========================================================
 pkg=consensus elapsedTime=707218 bestBlockHeight=1

Block(504 B){
BlockHeader: Header(0x0000055d29c1adde910544507f7b712370f2a91dcc4b34d21f3b696e4c10f515):
        Number:                 1
        ParentID:               0x0000055c3a8556200e83ac9fe80e0323de76f529edeb150613d2af5166dfc12d
        Timestamp:              1550011540
        Signer:                 0x7280d2f760ce59c5a2e0bb04eccdef45c6bb7d14
        Beneficiary:            0x7280d2f760ce59c5a2e0bb04eccdef45c6bb7d14
        BlockType:              2
        LastKBlockHieght:       0
        GasLimit:               10000000
        GasUsed:                0
        TotalScore:             1
        TxsRoot:                0x45b0cfc220ceec5b7c1c62c4d4193d38e4eba48e8815729ce75f9c0ab0e4c1c0
        StateRoot:              0x7d7cb8edd7a420953caad0a9a90583dd6fc6fc0a52235f2d801ee16d43a3f389
        ReceiptsRoot:   0x45b0cfc220ceec5b7c1c62c4d4193d38e4eba48e8815729ce75f9c0ab0e4c1c0
        Signature:              0xfca190d1e2388e52d290ec91777c3e4b2db7b6273ddfd27c344062d14355c92b56d69a2c5da2da39a69e43425c0fa5402928bb41315c0f87fe299bd7820e08db01,
Transactions: [],
KBlockData: {0 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 []},
CommitteeInfo: {[] [] []}
}

That's it. The next time, you won't need the --peers flag for node2 any more, since it's already stored in cache. Enjoy!

Meter is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, also included in LICENSE file in repository.