Lisk pool distribution software

This software is created by lisk delegate "dakk", please consider a small donation if you use this software:

• "2324852447570841050L" for lisk
• "7725849364280821971S" for shift
• "AZAXtswaWS4v8eYMzJRjpd5pN3wMBj8Rmk" for ark
• "8691988869124917015R" for rise

Configuration

Fork this repo; edit config.json and modify the first lines with your settings:

• pubkey: your delegate pubkey
• address: your delegate address
• percentage: percentage to distribute
• secret: your secret
• secondsecret: your second secret or null if disabled
• node: the lisk node where you get forging info
• nodepay: the lisk node used for payments
• minpayout: the minimum amount for a payout
• coin: the name of the coin (LISK, ARK, SHIFT, RISE, KAPU, OXY or whatever you want)
• skip: a list of address to skip
• donations: a list of object (address: amount) for send static amount every payout
• donationspercentage: a list of object (address: percentage) for send static percentage every payout
• logfile: file where you want to write pending and sent amounts
• feededuct: true if you want to subtract fees from user payouts

Now edit docs/index.html and customize the webpage.

Finally edit poollogs_example.json and put in lastpayout the unixtimestamp of your last payout or the date of pool starting; then move poollogs_example.json to poollogs.json.

Private pool

If you want to run a private pool, you need to edit config.json and:

• private: set to true
• whitelist: put a list of address you wish to include

Ark & Kapu

If you are using this software on ark, you should edit pollogs_example_ark.json and put:

• lastpayout: the unixtimestamp of your last payout or the date of pool starting
• lastforged: the forged amount recorded in your last payout or the forged amount of pool starting

then move poollogs_example_ark.json to poollogs.json.

Also, replace docs/index.html with docs/index.ark.html

Running it

First clone the lisk-pool repository and install requests:

git clone https://github.com/dakk/lisk-pool

cd lisk-pool

apt-get install python3-pip

pip3 install requests

Lisk

If you are using lisk, you need to install lisk commander:

npm install --global --production lisk-commander@2.2.3

Rise

If you are using rise you need to dpos-api-fallback:

git clone https://github.com/vekexasia/dpos-api-fallback
cd dpos-api-fallback
npm install
npm run package

Then start it:

python3 liskpool.py

or if you want to use another config file:

python3 liskpool.py -c config2.json

It produces a file "payments.sh" with all payments shell commands. Run this file with:

bash payments.sh

The payments will be broadcasted (every 10 seconds). At the end you can move your generated poollogs.json to docs/poollogs.json and send the update to your git repo.

To display the pool frontend, enable docs-site on github repository settings.

Batch mode

The script is also runnable by cron using the -y argument:

python3 liskpool.py -y

There is also a 'batch.sh' file which run liskpool, then payments.sh and copy the poollogs.json in the docs folder.

Avoid vote hoppers

In some DPOS, some voters switch their voting weight from one delegate to another for receiving payout from multiple pools. A solution for that is the following flow:

1. Run liskpool.py every hour with --min-payout=1000000 (a very high minpayout, so no payouts will be done but the pending will be updated)
2. Run liskpool.py normally to broadcast the payments

Command line usage

usage: liskpool.py [-h] [-c config.json] [-y] [--min-payout MINPAYOUT]

DPOS delegate pool script

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c config.json        set a config file (default: config.json)
  -y                    automatic yes for log saving (default: no)
  --min-payout MINPAYOUT
                        override the minpayout value from config file

Lisk and Rise migration for version 1.0

Since Lisk version 1.0.0 and Rise version 1.0, APIs with secret used for creating transaction are not available anymore, so we need to use the dpos-api-fallback (a special thanks for vekexasia who made this tool).

First, update the lisk-pool source, update the config.json with new fields, then install dpos-api-fallback inside the lisk-pool directory:

cd lisk-pool
git clone https://github.com/vekexasia/dpos-api-fallback
cd dpos-api-fallback
npm install
npm run package

nodejs >= 6 is mandatory for running dpos-api-fallback!

License

Copyright 2017-2018 Davide Gessa

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.