Vennd is a general purpose digital vending machine. Send Bitcoins to the digital vending machine and it will send back the corresponding Counterparty token. Vennd can be configured as a gateway to enable trading on the Counterparty decentralized exchange for any Bitcoin compatible alt-coin.
Feel free to contact me jeremy@vennd.io on just about anything.
The components of Vennd:
- VenndNativeFollower - Application which connects to single bitcoind instance
- CounterpartyFollower - Application which connects to the Counterparty API. A single CounterpartyFollower instance can be configured to listen to multiple service addresses and assets
- PaymentProcessor - Application to process Bitcoin and Counterparty payments
- PaymentAuthorizer - TBA - Application to manually authorize payments
For more information on how Vennd can be used, head over to vennd.io.
- Bitcoind installed and blockchain synchronised with txindex=1 and Counterpartyd installed on Linux as per http://counterpartydocumentation.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html
- Alternatively, for development purposes, use the free counterpartyd server xcp-dev.vennd.io port 4000
Vennd was developed on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and is the preferred platform to run Vennd. However, Windows 7 or higher is also supported. The following are the recommended specifications for a server running Vennd:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (12.04 supported)
- 4 GB of RAM or higher, SSD with at least 128GB free space
- Groovy 1.89 or higher. Groovy 2.3 is recommended because of JSON parsing performance improvements. It is recommended to run Vennd with the --indy parameter to enable InvokeDynamic support (http://groovy.codehaus.org/InvokeDynamic+support).
- Oracle JDK 1.7 or higher
The Linux installation guide can be found at https://github.com/vennd/vennd/blob/master/doc/linux_install.md
Windows installation has not been tested. Pull requests would be gladly accepted for https://github.com/vennd/vennd/blob/master/doc/windows_install.md
A sample configuration to configure Vennd as gateway for your Bitcoin compatible alt-coin https://github.com/vennd/vennd/blob/master/doc/gateway_configuration_guide.md
A sample configuration to configure Vennd as a simple vending machine https://github.com/vennd/vennd/blob/master/doc/vendingmachine_configuration_guide.md