Block Banter 🗣️🦜

Block Banter is a simple full stack app built in Go that fetches ERC20 transfer event data and visualises it in a directed graph in the browser.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Running the Project

To run the project locally, use Docker Compose:

docker-compose up

Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:9000 to view the graph.

Note: it might take some time for your PostgreSQL table to fill up with data but once there are a few blocks worth of data ingested the graph starts to look interesting.

Demo video

Usage

Once the project is running, you can access the API to generate and retrieve proofs.

Contributing

I'm learning how to build Go projects, so any feedback is appreciated. Contributions are welcome too so please open an issue or submit a pull request for any improvements or bug fixes.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE-MIT file for details.

TODO

Backend

• Refactor the app into a layered architecture? (api, background, database, models, etc.)
• Pull balance for each address in the chart and display it in a heatmap style.
• Get dApp names for common addresses and display them in the chart.
• Introduce messaging with grpc and protobuf to communicate between the different components.
• Use websockets to communicate with the frontend instead of polling the api.
• Write tests for the different components.
• Kubernetes deployment.

Frontend

• Deal with large set of data - introduce block range selection (slider perhaps) (rethink backend and api).
• Deal with multiple transactions between the same addresses.
• Fix strange re-rendering force that is pushing nodes away from the center.