There are two examples of blockchain systems built on top of Scorex at the moment.
The first one is the simplest proof-of-stake cryptocurrency with an account-based transactional model and everything stored in memory. It can be found under the src/main/scala/examples/curvepos folder.
The second one is Twinscoin, explained in more detail below.
Twinscoin is a hybrid Proof-of-Work(PoW) and Proof-of-Stake(PoS) cryptocurrency with 1:1 correspondence between PoW and PoS blocks. The main goal is to protect the hybrid chain against majority of hashing power being adversarial.
The main points of the implementation are:
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The use of the Twinscoin consensus protocol
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A Bitcoin-like transactional model with a transaction having multiple inputs and outputs. However, there are no Bitcoin-like scripts.
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Persistence done by using the IODB versioned key-value database
To run, you need to have Java8 and SBT (Scala Build Tool) installed.
In the terminal, run sbt, and then type the following commands in the SBT shell:
> project examples> runMain examples.hybrid.HybridApp src/main/resources/settings.conf
This will create and run a node with the given settings. To create and run more nodes, repeat the steps above using the other setting files (e.g. settings2.conf, settings3.conf, ...) in the src/main/resources/ folder.
Note to MacOS users: The 127.0.0.X loopback addresses (for X > 1) are disabled by default in MacOS. Therefore, the creation of nodes with settingsX.conf (for X > 1) fails. To prevent the failure, enable the addresses.
You can interact with the nodes you created through a web browser. For the node created with settings.conf, visit localhost:9085.
TODO: Add instructions about how to perform a transaction through wallet/transfer.