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Tari DAN implementation

This is where you can find the cutting edge development of the Tari smart contract layer - the Digital Assets Network, or DAN.

You can read about the technical specifications of the DAN in the RFCs.

If you're looking for the core Tari base layer code, it's an this repository

Tari DAN Validator node

See the dedicated README for installation and running guides.

Tari DAN CLI

A CLI tool to help manage accounts, templates, VNs and transactions on the DAN.

Tari DAN web-gui

A very basic web-gui for interacting with VNS.

See the dedicated README for installation and running guides.

Running and testing a validator

NOTE: This repo is heavily under development, so these instructions may change without notice.

First thing you need is to run a Tari base node, Tari console wallet and most likely tor. You will also need to run a Tari miner to mine some blocks. You should use the feature-dan branch and igor network for now.

A validator node can be started using:

cargo run --bin tari_validator_node -- --network igor

You may find it useful to run multiple validator nodes, in which case, create a subfolder for each one and add the -b <folder> to run it in that folder

Example

cd vn1 
cargo run --bin tari_validator_node -- -b . --network igor

// other terminal 
cd vn2
cargo run --bin tari_validator_node -- -b . --network igor

Registering the VN

The validator node web ui can be found at http://localhost:5000. When you open it, you can click on Register VN to register it. Alternatively, register using the cli:

cargo run --bin tari_validator_node_cli -- vn register

You'll need to mine a number of blocks, but after that the vn should have a shard key and show up as registered on the web ui

Running the Tari Dan Wallet Daemon

To be able to use the Tari Dan Wallet CLI communicate with the running validator node, one needs to set up a tari dan wallet daemon, as follows:

cargo run --bin tari_dan_wallet_daemon -- -b .

The wallet daemon will listen to wallet requests and submit it to the running VN. Notice that, each VN running should have its own wallet daemon.

Creating a template

The easiest way to create a template is with the template at https://github.com/tari-project/wasm-template

cargo generate https://github.com/tari-project/wasm-template.git

Install the wasm32-unknown-unknown target with rustup

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

In the directory you created run:

cd package
cargo wasm-build

Upload the WASM file created in package/target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release to an HTTP server (or IPFS).

After editing the project, you can deploy the project using the validator_node_cli:

cargo run --bin tari_validator_node_cli -- templates publish 

(See help on tari_validator_node_cli for more details)

Once the template is registered on the base layer and sufficiently mined, you should see it in the templates table of the global_storage.sqlite file under data/validator. The compiled_code column should contain binary data and the status column should be Active.

Get airdropped base layer (Mino)Tari tokens to pay for fees

Before the user can start submitting transactions to the network, it has to obtain base layer (Mino)Tari tokens to pay for fees. At the moment, the simplest way to do so is to request an airdrop of (free test) tokens from the network itself. In order to do so, the user should first create an account, using the tari wallet client, as follows:

    cargo run --bin tari_dan_wallet_cli -- accounts create --account-name <USER_ACCOUNT_NAME>

After the user has created an account, it can request an airdrop via the command

    cargo run --bin tari_dan_wallet_cli -- accounts faucet --account-name <USER_ACCOUNT_NAME> --amount <AMOUNT> --fee <FEE_AMOUNT>

Notice that for the DAN wallet cli to execute successfully, the user must have a wallet daemon connected to a validator node (see the above).

Claiming L1 burn Tari on the DAN

L1 Minotari coins are able to be burnt and claimed, the user may convert (1:1) these to Tari coins on the layer-2 network. This process is fairly complex and manual at the time of writing, but is planned to improve in the future. The first step is to burn Minotari base layer funds making sure to include a claim public key. A private claim key must be known to claim the funds on the layer-2 Tari network. Burning yields the following data:

{
    "transaction_id": <transaction_id>,
    "is_success": <IS_SUCCESS>,
    "failure_message": <FAILURE_MESSAGE>,
    "commitment": <COMMITMENT>,
    "ownership_proof": <OWNERSHIP_PROOF>,
    "rangeproof": <RANGEPROOF>
}

The user must create an account on the Tari network using the accounts create wallet CLI command prior to claiming. See the previous section for details on creating an account. The public key of this account should be used as the claim public key when burning funds.

the user can then claim burn Tari on the second layer, as follows: create a new .json file, with path <JSON_FILE_TO_RETRIEVE_BURN_TARI>

{
    "claim_public_key": <CLAIM_PUBLIC_KEY>,
    "transaction_id": <TRANSACTION_ID>,
    "commitment": <COMMITMENT>,
    "ownership_proof": <OWNERSHIP_PROOF>,
    "rangeproof": <RANGEPROOF>
}

then run the command

cargo run --bin tari_dan_wallet_cli -- accounts claim-burn --account <ACCOUNT_NAME> --json <JSON_FILE_TO_RETRIEVE_BURN_TARI> --fee <FEE>

Calling a function

With the templated registered we can invoke a function by using the tari_dan_wallet_cli.

Next we can get a list of templates

cargo run --bin tari_validator_node_cli -- templates list

To be entitled to pay for network fees, the user will have to claim burn Tari, see the previous section. Finally, call the function (In this case we'll be calling the new function on the example Counter template)

cargo run --bin tari_dan_wallet_cli -- transactions submit --wait-for-result call-function <template_address> new 

Debugging Hotstuff

The first thing that you may want to check is the ingoing and outgoing messages from your node. These messages are logged to a sqlite database under data/peer_db/message_log.sqlite to confirm that messages are being sent and received.

If messages are being received, the Hotstuff data can be viewed in the state.db under the data/validator_node folder.

Each submitted transaction should create a payload, so the payload_id is useful to filter the other tables.

If the transaction was successful, there should be some data in the substates table with the created_by_payload_id or the deleted_by_payload_id equal to the payload_id.