Ziya Smart Chain

This project could be seen as a simplified version of Ethereum blockchain

Project's goal

Create a PoW based, Ethereum like blockchain from scratch to deeply understand how they work

Features

Interpreter for OpCodes
Creating Blocks and Blockchain
Proof of Work
Mining and validating a Block
Networking, allow peers to interact. Send new blocks, transactions...
API to interact with the node via http calls
Creating Accounts and Smart Contract accounts
Creating and Validating Transactions
Global State to store both Smart Contracts' and accounts' state
Running code through making a transaction to a smart contract account
Storing and getting data from a smart contract's storage
Usage of gas and gasLimits

Used technologies

Typescript is used for developing both the blockchain
Node is used as runtime environment for typescript
Express is used to create an API to interact with the blockchain
PubNub is used to establish the network between different nodes