Network

Creole Network is a peer-to-peer network, on which each participant gets a ‘Personal Information Store’ through which their ‘agents’ can exchange contact information via handshakes such as ‘join, ‘follow’, etc. DCN provides seamless people search to the participants across the network and also provides a low-code stack to developers for building user-centric social utility apps.

Architecture

The fundamental unit of the network is Account, whose actions are executed through their Agents. Each device of an Account is represented on the network as an Agent.

• These agents manage the “account-fs” of the account across devices and apps. It is designed to store personal information such as

  Profile, Contacts, Groups, Graphs, Calendar, Credentials and Notes

• Handshakes are protocols for exchanging personal information amongst agents. Social interactions such as ‘join a community’, ‘connect with a member’, ‘invite a friend’ etc. are modelled as Handshakes, through which agents exchange personal information over an encrypted messaging layer.
• People Search API is a special-purpose search engine for agents to query contacts & graphs stored in account-fs and in turn enable search, similarity, and recommendations.

MonoRepo overview

.
├── apps                    # Sample Applications built on the network
│   ├── rolodex/            # Implementation of a CRM app running live on testnet
│   └── ...
├── docs                    # Source repo for hosted Documentation
├── hub                     # Source repo for Decentralised Hub of the network
├── packages                # Packages to be used in building Hub and Apps
├── scripts                 # Scripts for admin activities
└── README.md

.
├── ...
├── packages/account-fs     # Core package to be used by every participant of the network
│   ├── agent               # Implementation of Agent of the network
│   │   ├── fs/             # Implementation of Account-fs storage (layer 1 from diagram)
│   │   ├── handshakes/     # Implementation of Handshake (layer 2 from the diagram)
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── people/             # Implementation of People Search API (layer 3 from the diagram)
│   ├── app.js              # Bootstrapping agent on an App server hosted in the cloud
│   ├── browser.js          # Bootstrapping an Account's Agent embedded in the browser
│   ├── hub.js              # Boostrapping network and storage for the Hub
│   └── ...                 # etc.
└── ...

Local setup

To bring up the 'rolodex' application, follow the below steps

• Run npm install at the project directory to install the dependencies.
• Run npm start -w hub at the project directory to bring up the hub.
• Run npm start -w rolodex 4000 at the project directory to bring up the rolodex application on port 4000. The application will be up on http://localhost:4000/

Currently, 'rolodex' requires the 'hub' to be up as well for it to work.

Major Dependencies

• 'Hub' requires Redis to run, the assumption is that redis will run on port 6379. One can refer the 'package.json' file of 'hub' for the appropriate redis version to be installed.

Start Building

• Read our Whitepaper
• Come join us on our Discord