Inspiration

Last two years I have been aware of some problems that appeared when using the decentralized technologies, and some of them are:

• lack of privacy when interacting with services (how infura manages my privacy? is etherscan tracking my web interactions). Can they know my accounts?

• trusting in centralized services... are public JSON-RPC providers answering the correct data? data visualization of my transactions in XXX is ok?

• trusting only in the browser*... what about a malware that modifies the browser content, this really scares me a lot.

So, those services are really important but is also important to have other options, less centralized.

DAppNode (https://dappnode.io/, just got an EFC and Aragon grants) is a community Linux distro with a container-manager for decentralized applications, and it comes with the possibility to easy install a different kind of full nodes and develop applications that use these nodes, among other interesting options. So, developing an application for it seems to have a lot of sense.

What it does

The application is a server that continuously scans for dappnode-installed full nodes (for the moment only ethereum nodes). In this configuration, you can specify:

• the blockchains installed,
• accounts/smartcontracts to monitor
• define flexible rules about when get notified

When it occurs, you will be notified via Telegram (or another DAppNode installed messaging agent).

Here is an example of a configuration file:

# configuration file
networks:
    ethmain:
        type: ethereum
        url: ws://my.ethchain.dnp.dappnode.eth:8546 

accounts:
    # simple account monitor, from or to
    0x137d9174d3bd00f2153dcc0fe7af712d3876a71e:
        network : ethmain

alerts:
    # scan smartcontract action
    createSiringAuction:
        network : ethmain
        rule: (to == '0x06012c8cf97bead5deae237070f9587f8e7a266d' && data =~ '0xf7d8c883')
        message: KryptoKittiy createSiringAuction called with gas {{ .gasprice }}
    
    # check events in all transactions if there’s my account in the 0x6e81… topic of the 0x7d13… contract
    deepanalisys:
        network : ethmain
        rule: (log_0x7d1335Af903ff256823c9AA2d4a5aaA41E054335_0x6e812926864597b1b871e35c4b24bd297ec1e96c871c41b9d7d3deb47bbe751c =~ '137d9174d3bd00f2153dcc0fe7af712d3876a71e')
            message: Somebody made me a transfer 

notifications:
    telegramusername: adriamb

Telegram sends a notification like:

alert: Generic 0x137d9174d3bd00f2153dcc0fe7af712d3876a71e account modified http://my.gotoma.dnp.adriamb.eth:8080/b/ethmain/tx/0x8d3eb7670582df8e08ece5cda026fbb2bc4a1f5c7a93633744009249397ab399

The http://my.gotoma.dnp.adriamb.eth:8080/... is a .eth domain that can be accessed via DAppNode VPN integrated ENS resolution, there you can see more information about the transaction done using the data from your full node, not from an external-centralized service.