GRuB: Cost-Effective Data Feeds to Blockchains via Workload-Adaptive Data Replication

Preparation

Download Virtual Box and Ubuntu 18.04 ISO using the following link, and setup a virtual ubuntu environment.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/ubuntu-releases/18.04.5/ubuntu-18.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso

Install Python3, Web3 and pysolc

sudo apt-get install python3.6
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install web3
sudo pip3 install py-solc
sudo pip3 install sha3
python3.6 -m solc.install v0.4.25
sudo cp ~/.py-solc/solc-v0.4.25/bin/solc /usr/bin/solc

Install Geth

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum

Download GRuB

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/syracuse-fullstacksecurity/GRuB.git
cd GRuB

Run your private ethereum node (do not close this terminal)

geth --datadir "geth_data" init genesis.json
geth --datadir "geth_data" --rpc --allow-insecure-unlock --mine --minerthreads 1 --unlock "0x71ad2477b729741951b652aa7f9825e2f91f5a65" --password <(echo -n "") console 2>log

Test BtcRelay trace (start a new terminal)

cd btcrelay/

Then follow the README.md in btcrelay folder

Test YCSB trace (start a new terminal)

cd YCSB/

Then follow the README.md in YCSB folder

Test YCSB trace (start a new terminal)

cd stableCoins/

Then follow the README.md in stableCoins folder

Trouble-shooting

If you have multiple python3 versions, use the following commands to install Web3 and pysolc packages

python3.6 -m pip install web3
python3.6 -m pip install py-solc

If it prompts you that /usr/bin/solc is not executable, add execution permission by the following command

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/solc

Reference

If you use our dataset, please reference our paper published in Middleware 2020

@inproceedings{grub,
 author    = {Kai Li and Yuzhe Tang and Jiaqi Chen and Zhehu Yuan and Cheng Xu and Jianliang Xu},
 title     = {Cost-Effective Data Feeds to Blockchains via Workload-Adaptive Data Replication},
 booktitle = {ACM/IFIP Middleware 2020},
 howpublished = {\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04078}}
}