The Loopring relay contains two parts: The Relay and Miner. The Relay is the service for wallet to broadcast orders to the ipfs network. The Miner found ring from the unmatched order. It can act as one or both of them:
THIS REPOSITORY HAS BEEN DEPRECATED. PLEASE USE OUR relay-cluster INSTEAD
The relay needs a full ethereum node in order to run. See ethererum documentation for details:
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Building-Ethereum
Mysql is the backing datastore. It needs to be installed, and the database needs to be configured as in relay/config/relay.toml
Orders are collected and broadcast through the ipfs network. See ipfs documentation for details:
https://ipfs.io/docs/install/
Install govendor to manage external golang packages
go get -u github.com/kardianos/govendor
build from source: The environment variables: $GOROOT and $GOPATH must be set.
> go get -u github.com/Loopring/relay
> cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/Loopring/relay
> make relay
> build/bin/relay --mode=relay
- step 1: You must have an eth account to sign and submit ring. Run
accountto create or import it.
> build/bin/relay account --help
- step 2: You must modify the config file. Set
miner.minerto the eth account which can be found inkeystore-dir. Then, you can run as follow.
> build/bin/relay --mode=miner --unlocks $mineraddress --passwords $passwords
reference
https://hub.docker.com/r/loopring/relay