CCF Sample Banking application

This is a CCF sample application of a bank consortium.

Quickstart

The quickest way to build and run the sample application is to checkout this repository locally in its development container by clicking:

All dependencies will be automatically installed (takes ~2 mins on first checkout).

Alternatively, if your organisation supports it, you can checkout this repository in a Github codespace:

Use case

A bank system that can be run by multiple banks is required.

What the application does

This application provides a REST API with the following endpoints:

• PUT /app/account/{user_id}/{account_name}
  • Create account for a bank account holder
  • It can be called by banks (members in CCF terminology)
  • Status code for successful calls: 204
• POST /app/deposit/{user_id}/{account_name}
  • Deposit money
  • It can be called by banks (members in CCF terminology)
  • Example request body: { "value" : 100 }
  • Status code for successful calls: 204
• GET /app/balance/{account_name}
  • Check balance
  • It can be called by bank account holders (users in CCF terminology)
  • Example response: Status code 200 with body { "balance" : 100 }
• POST /app/transfer/{account_name}
  • Transfer money from an account to another account
  • It can be called by bank account holders (users in CCF terminology)
  • Example request body: { value : 100, user_id_to: 'userA' , account_name_to: 'accountA' }
  • Status code for successful calls: 204

Why "Deposit money" API (POST /app/deposit/{user_id}/{account_name}) can't be called by users not members?

In real life, it's normal that users can deposit money through an ATM at their own will. So it might be unintuitive that users can't call the endpoint. However if we allow users, they could deposit any amount of money with no actual money. If you want implement an ATM, the deposit procedure would be:

1. User puts actual money into an ATM.
2. The ATM counts the money.
3. The ATM calls "Deposit money" API as the bank.

Why CCF?

There are multiple reasons that you want to use CCF for a banking consortium.

• The ledger generated by CCF is tamper-proof, it cannot be modified after having been produced; it is immutable. Even users without a full copy of the ledger, holding their transaction receipts, are protected.
• Users can use transaction receipts with application claim as proof of transferring money even without online access to the system.
• Banks don't have to trust each other. A majority of the banks need to agree to make changes on the application with the default constitution.
• Banks and users don't have to trust node operators.

Demo

You can use the demo to understand a typical scenario.

Scenario in the demo

In this scenario, the bank consortium has 3 banks as CCF members. Scenario is the following:

1. Banks add 2 users (user0, user1) using CCF's governance mechanism (See The CCF document for the details).
2. A bank creates an account for each user.
3. A bank deposit 100 to the user0's account
4. user0 transfers 40 to the user1's account.
5. user0 and user1 check their balance. The result should be 60 and 40 respectively.

sequenceDiagram
    title Diagram of adding user in the demo
    participant Member 0
    participant Member 1
    participant Member 2
    participant CCF Network

    Member 0->>+CCF Network: Propose set_user to create User 0
    CCF Network-->>Member 0: Proposal ID
    Member 1->>+CCF Network: Vote for Proposal ID
    CCF Network-->>Member 1: State: Open
    Member 2->>+CCF Network: Vote for Proposal ID
    CCF Network-->>Member 2: State: Accepted

    Note over CCF Network: Add User 0

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sequenceDiagram
    title Diagram of the bank usage in the demo
    participant Member 0
    participant User 0
    participant User 1
    participant CCF Network

    Member 0->>+CCF Network: Create an account for User 0
    Member 0->>+CCF Network: Create an account for User 1
    Member 0->>+CCF Network: Deposit 100 to the User 0's account

    Note over CCF Network: User 0: 100
    Note over CCF Network: User 1: 0

    User 0->>+CCF Network: Transfer 40 to the User 1's account

    Note over CCF Network: User 0: 60
    Note over CCF Network: User 1: 40

    User 0->>+CCF Network: Check balance
    CCF Network-->>User 0: Balance: 60

    User 1->>+CCF Network: Check balance
    CCF Network-->>User 1: Balance: 40

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How to run the demo

make start-host

# In another terminal
make demo

How to run the tests

The banking application also has a suite of tests that run in a sandbox; please ensure you do not have an existing sandbox running.

make test

Interact with the sandbox manually

You can always run the sandbox yourself: -

# The dev container would have installed your npm packages for you

npm run build # Transpile the TypeScript code to JavaScript and copy the output to `dist` directory

initial_number_of_banks=3
initial_number_of_users=2
/opt/ccf_virtual/bin/sandbox.sh --js-app-bundle ./dist/ --initial-member-count $initial_number_of_banks --initial-user-count $initial_number_of_users

You can find example commands to use against the application in ./demo.sh.

Creating a container image for manually dispatch a CCF Network

make build-virtual # to generate a virtual CCF Network
make build-enclave # to generate a enclave CCF Network

Both make targets execute the same script: build_image.sh. This script expects virtual|enclave as parameters, and the differentiation between which image to generate and config files to use is done through the argument passed to it.

The script performs the following:

• create a workspace/docker_certificates folder to store the needed certificates
• copy the configuration files for the images ../config/cchost_config_{setupType}_js.json
• generate member0 certificates (needed to start CCF network)
• Build the container image
• remove the config files' copies

From this point, you can run your image and start governance actions on your CCF network.