Loopring Relay 【DEPRECATED]

The Loopring relay contains two parts: The Relay and Miner. The Relay is the service for wallet to broadcast orders to the ipfs network. The Miner found ring from the unmatched order. It can act as one or both of them:

THIS REPOSITORY HAS BEEN DEPRECATED. PLEASE USE OUR relay-cluster INSTEAD

SETUP

Ethereum

The relay needs a full ethereum node in order to run. See ethererum documentation for details:
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Building-Ethereum

MySQL

Mysql is the backing datastore. It needs to be installed, and the database needs to be configured as in relay/config/relay.toml

IPFS

Orders are collected and broadcast through the ipfs network. See ipfs documentation for details:
https://ipfs.io/docs/install/

GOVENDOR

Install govendor to manage external golang packages

go get -u github.com/kardianos/govendor

INSTALL

build from source: The environment variables: $GOROOT and $GOPATH must be set.

> go get -u github.com/Loopring/relay
> cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/Loopring/relay
> make relay

RUN

> build/bin/relay --mode=relay

RUN AS MINER

step 1: You must have an eth account to sign and submit ring. Run account to create or import it.

> build/bin/relay account --help

step 2: You must modify the config file. Set miner.miner to the eth account which can be found in keystore-dir. Then, you can run as follow.

> build/bin/relay  --mode=miner --unlocks $mineraddress --passwords $passwords

DOCKER

reference
https://hub.docker.com/r/loopring/relay

LoopringSecondary/relay