Ethereum Smart Contracts for the Circles
UBI system: A decentralised Universal Basic Income platform based on personal currencies.
There are several components:
This is derived from standard ERC20
implementations, with two main differences: The ability to mint UBI to the token owner, and the hubTransfer
function that allows transitive transfers. Token
contracts store the address of the Hub
that deployed them, and can only transact transitively with tokens from the same hub. Tokens have owners, which can be an external account or any kind of contract - in our deployment, they are Gnosis Safes
.
This is the location of system-wide variables and the trust graph. It has special permissions on all tokens that were deployed through it and have authorized it to perform transitive exchanges. All the parameters in a Hub
are immutable and it has no owner.
Illustrated here are some of the main available calls:
signup
method of theHub
deploys a Circles token- Safe or external accounts make trust connections within the hub with the trust method
- Users send transitive transactions with the hub, which has special permissions on tokens
npm i circles-contracts
Requires Node
version 12.
Requires Node version 12. You can change your node version to the tested version with nvm use
.
Install all required dependencies via npm install
.
npm test
will re-build the contracts / tests and run all of the tests in the test directory.
Tests are executed with the help of Truffle
and written in javascript using Mocha
with the Chai
assertion library.
When you run npm test
a new local blockchain will be started with ganache-cli (unless you already have one running). The contracts will be deployed and the javascript tests will make transactions to this chain.
Helper functions defined in test/helpers
provides functionality for more complicated tests such as: reading the event log, or checking for an EVM "revert / throw", or changing the blockstamp times.
Note that: We commit the build dir on purpose, because the rest of our stack pulls this repo in from npm and gets the abis from them.
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