The Neon Network -- E-coupons on Blockchain

• Author: Lee Ting Ting & Hu Yao Chieh
• Supervised by: Prof. HUI Pan & Dimitris Chatzopoulos from HKUST

Description

The Neon Network scaffolds a sustainable and scalable e-coupon market framework upon Ethereum network, facilitating secure value distribution gateways and non-falsifiability for e-coupons within the sophisticated networks of issuers and users. This paper presents a com- plete and generic solution to the emerging market needs of e-coupon on the blockchain, which entailed less manual costs and errors through providing non-falsifiable and non-repudiable coupon instances with the smart contract.

Demo

Tools Needed before you start

• bower: npm install -g bower
• testrpc: npm install -g ethereumjs-testrpc
• truffle: npm install -g truffle

• Description and relevant links for these tools can be found in the Technologies used section

Usage

• After cloning the repository, install the dependencies under this directory.
  

npm install

• Install the bower componenets
  

bower install

• Open testrpc in another terminal to create 10 distinct accounts for testing.
  

testrpc

• Compile and deploy our smart contracts:)
  

truffle migrate --reset

• Run our web app!
  

npm start

• Our application is running on http://localhost:8080

Additional Notes

• This repository is created as a minimized version (excluding the unit tests, etc.) from the original repository here.
  

The smart contract sorce code is deployed on rinkeby

• Testrpc has been taken by Truffle and thus has changed its name to ganache-cli. The above command can still work with its old features but not the lastest ones. More details please refer to their GitHub repo.

• We are using Truffle Box for bootstraping with Truffle as the fundamental framework.

Technologies used

• The Truffle Framework - A development framework for Ethereum with built-in smart contract compilation, deployment, and testing.
• Truffle Box - Helpful boilerplates with integration of web3 and webpack
• Web3 - API for communicating with Ethereum nodes through RPC calls
• Webpack - A module bundler for organizing JavaScript files for usage in a browser
• TestRPC - A Node.js based Ethereum client for testing and development, which gen- erates ten funded accounts for testing purposes.
• Solidity - Programming language for smart contracts
• Bootstrap3 DatePicker - A library for date and time selection
• Bower - Offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management

License

Licensed under the MIT License

🎉🎉 This is the end of README. Hope you like it:) All suggestions are welcomed, thanks!! 😉