AKAP
The AKA protocol (AKAP) is an idea, a specification, and a set of smart contracts written for the Ethereum blockchain. It tackles a challenge seen on blockchains related to immutability and how you write code to handle such an environment.
In short the challenge facing blockchain developers is that when they deploy code others depend on, there's no easy upgrade path. The location of the code is tied in with the location of storage, and if you want to upgrade your code you can't easily take this storage with you. Deploying a new version would force everyone who depend on it to change their references, not to mention the pain of repopulating existing data.
Eternal storage is a pattern that AKAP can help you leverage, where the idea is to keep your storage separate from your code.
Please see the documentation for more in depth material.
Repositories
This repository contains the AKAP and AKAF registry contracts. Other related repositories:
AKAP utils
AKAP docs
AKAP browser
Using AKAP
Building locally with Truffle
Assuming you have Truffle installed you can run the usual commands:
git clone https://github.com/cfelde/AKAP.git
cd AKAP
truffle build
truffle test
You might need to do:
npm install @openzeppelin/contracts
npm install @openzeppelin/test-helpers
Using as a library
To use this as a library in your Solidity code, install with npm first:
npm install akap
If you need a local testnet instance of AKAP do:
truffle deploy --network development
You can find an example with further details on https://github.com/cfelde/Using-AKAP
Official build
The "officially compiled" AKAP contract json files can be found under build/contracts.
This contract has been deployed to Goerli, Rinkeby, Kovan, Ropsten and of course Mainnet.
Contract address is: 0xaacCAAB0E85b1EfCEcdBA88F4399fa6CAb402349
Compiled using below versions:
Truffle v5.1.4 (core: 5.1.4)
Solidity v0.5.12 (solc-js)
Node v13.3.0
Web3.js v1.2.1
macOS Catalina v10.15.2
The solc optimizer was enabled with runs = 200.
AKAP UI and apps
There's a browser available on akap.me/browser, and you can find the repo for this here. Also, if you want to see how you can get started using AKAP in your web apps, there's a simple deploy test example available.
We're building a list of apps and similar using AKAP. If you have some examples to share, please do.