Open Monero - a fully open sourced implementation of MyMonero backend

In this example restbed is used to demonstrate how to provide Monero related JSON REST service. For this purpose, a service called Open Monero was developed.

Open Monero is an open source implementation of backend of https://mymonero.com/. The frontend, which includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, was adapted from (and originally developed by) https://mymonero.com/.

Open Monero's backend is open sourced, free to use, host and modify. Additionally, some features were added/changed as compared to MyMonero. They include:

• google analytics, cloudflare, images and flash were removed.
• frontend's html and javascript upgrads and cleanups.
• transaction fees were set to zero.
• the wallets generated use 25 word mnemonics, fully compatible with official monero wallets (13 word mnemonics generated by MyMonero work as usual though).
• import wallet fee was reduced.
• added support of testnet network and mainnet network without relying transactions
• improved handling of mempool, coinbase, locked and unlocked transactions.
• added dynamic miner fees.
• minimum mixin set to 4 for the next hard fork.
• view only mode added.
• ability to offline show your address and private view and spend keys, based on the mnemonic seed, in case of server or connections problem resulting in not being able to login to your account.
• private tx key given to a user which can be used to prove sending xmr to a recipient.
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) was disabled.
• transaction confirmation window added to double check tx details before its commited.
• ability to select transaction priority.
• legacy address + payment_id system replaced with integrated addresses for better privacy.
• free, time based imports of recent transactions added.
• new transaction details window.

Testnet version

• http://139.162.32.245:81 - DOWN due to VPN problems at the moment :-(

This is Open Monero running on testnet network. You can use it to play around with it. Since this is testnet version, frequent changes and database resets are expected. Also, it is running on cheap vps, which may result in some lag.

If you want some testnet monero, please make issue with your testnet address that you can obtained from Open Monero.

Screenshot

Host it yourself

The Open Monero consists of four components that need to be setup for it to work:

• MySql/Mariadb database - it stores user address (viewkey is not stored!), associated transactions, outputs, inputs and transaction import payments information.
• Frontend - it is virtually same as that of MyMonero, except before mentioned differences. It consists of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Monero daemon - daemon must be running and fully sync, as this is where all transaction data is fetched from and used. Daemon also commits txs from the Open Monero into the Monero network.
• Backend - fully written in C++. It uses restbed to serve JSON REST to the frontend and mysql++ to interface the database. It also accesses Monero blockchain and "talks" with Monero deamon.

Limitations

Performance

Open Monero is not as fast as MyMonero. This is because it is basic, easy to understand and straight forward implementation of the backend. Thus, it does not use any special memory buffers/caches for transactions, blocks, complex database structures and SQL queries. Also, no ongoing monitoring of user's transactions is happening, since viewkey is not stored. Transaction search threads start when user logs in (viewkey and address are submitted to the search thread), and finish shorty after logout. Once the search threads stop, they can't be restarted without user logging in back, because viewkey is unknown.

Example compilation on Ubuntu 16.04

Below are example and basic instructions on how to setup up and run Open Monero on Ubuntu 16.04. For other Linux operating systems, the instructions are analogical.

Monero download and compilation

Download and compile recent Monero realease into your home folder:

# first install monero dependecines
sudo apt update

sudo apt install git build-essential cmake libboost-all-dev miniupnpc libunbound-dev graphviz doxygen libunwind8-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libgtest-dev libreadline-dev libzmq3-dev
sudo wget -O /usr/local/include/zmq.hpp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zeromq/cppzmq/master/zmq.hpp

# go to home folder 
cd ~

# get latest development version of monero. Monero changes so fast
# that if something breaks during compilation of open monero, please make an issue
git clone https://github.com/monero-project/monero

cd monero/

# checkout last monero version
git checkout -b last_release v0.11.0.0

make

Compilation of the Open Monero (don't run it yet)

Once Monero was downloaded and compiled, we can download Open Monero and compile it. In fact we could postpone compilation to later, but we can just do it now, to see if it compiles. But don't run it yet. It will not work without database, setup frontend, and synced and running monero blockchain.

# need mysql++ libraries 
sudo apt install libmysql++-dev
 
# go to home folder if still in ~/monero
cd ~

git clone https://github.com/moneroexamples/openmonero.git

cd openmonero

mkdir build && cd build

cmake ..

# altearnatively can use cmake -DMONERO_DIR=/path/to/monero_folder .. 
# if monero is not in ~/monero

make

Mysql/Mariadb

sudo apt install mysql-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Download openmonero.sql provided and setup the openmonero database. openmonero.sql script will drop current openmonero if exist. So don't run it, if you have already some important information in the openmonero database.

Assuming we are still in build folder:

# apply it to mysql
mysql -p -u root < ../sql/openmonero.sql

Lighttpd and frontend

sudo apt-get install lighttpd

Assuming you are still in build folder, copy frontend source files into lighttpd www folder.

sudo mkdir /var/www/html/openmonero
sudo cp -rvf ../html/* /var/www/html/openmonero/

Setup document root in lighttpd.conf into openmonero folder

sudo vim /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

and change server.document-root into:

server.document-root    = "/var/www/html/openmonero"

Restart lighttpd to see the change:

sudo systemctl restart lighttpd

Go to localhost (http://127.0.0.1) and check if frontend is working.

Run Open Monero

Command line options

./openmonero -h

  -h [ --help ] [=arg(=1)] (=0)         produce help message
  -t [ --testnet ] [=arg(=1)] (=0)      use testnet blockchain
  --do-not-relay [=arg(=1)] (=0)        does not relay txs to other nodes. 
                                        useful when testing construction and 
                                        submiting txs
  -p [ --port ] arg (=1984)             default port for restbed service of 
                                        Open Monero
  -c [ --config-file ] arg (=./config/config.json)
                                        Config file path.

Other backend options are in confing/config.json.

Before running openmonero:

• make sure you have Downloads folder in your home directory. Time library used in Open Monero stores there time zone offsets database that it uses.
• edit config/confing.js file with your settings. Especially set frontend-url and database connection details.
• set apiUrl in html\js\config.js and testnet flag. Last slash / in apiUrl is important. If running backend for testnet network, frontend testnet flag must be set to true. For mainnet, it is set to false.
• make sure monero daemon is running and fully sync. If using testnet network, use daemon with testnet flag!

To start for mainnet:

./openmonero

To start for testnet:

./openmonero -t

To start for testnet with non-default location of config.json file:

./openmonero -t -c /path/to/config.json

API calls

In the below examples, you can change 127.0.0.1:1984 into 139.162.32.245:1984 to query the testnet open monero instance (assuming its up and working well).

get_version

curl  -w "\n" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1984/get_version

Example output:

{
  "api": 65536,
  "blockchain_height": 965507,
  "git_branch_name": "upgrade_angularjs",
  "last_git_commit_date": "2017-07-25",
  "last_git_commit_hash": "456f9d6",
  "monero_version_full": "0.10.3.1-125f823"
}

api number is represented as uint32_t. In this case, 65536 represents major version 1 and minor version 0. In JavaScript, to get these numbers, one can do as follows:

var api_major = response.data.api >> 16;
var api_minor = response.data.api & 0xffff;

login

curl  -w "\n" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1984/login -d '{"address": "A2VTvE8bC9APsWFn3mQzgW8Xfcy2SP2CRUArD6ZtthNaWDuuvyhtBcZ8WDuYMRt1HhcnNQvpXVUavEiZ9waTbyBhP6RM8TV", "view_key": "041a241325326f9d86519b714a9b7f78b29111551757eeb6334d39c21f8b7400"}'

{"new_address":false,"status":"success"}

get_address_txs

curl  -w "\n" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1984/get_address_txs -d '{"address": "A2VTvE8bC9APsWFn3mQzgW8Xfcy2SP2CRUArD6ZtthNaWDuuvyhtBcZ8WDuYMRt1HhcnNQvpXVUavEiZ9waTbyBhP6RM8TV", "view_key": "041a241325326f9d86519b714a9b7f78b29111551757eeb6334d39c21f8b7400"}'

Output (only part shown):

{
  "blockchain_height": 965512,
  "new_address": false,
  "scanned_block_height": 961405,
  "scanned_block_timestamp": 1500969813,
  "scanned_height": 0,
  "start_height": 957190,
  "status": "success",
  "total_received": 32594830001895764,
  "total_received_unlocked": 32594830001895764,
  "transactions": [ 
    {
      "coinbase": false,
      "hash": "2877c449a7a9f0a507c7a6e4ae17b43d96dc44369092e57adc4e6d9ddcde1a68",
      "height": 812669,
      "id": 831631,
      "mempool": false,
      "mixin": 4,
      "payment_id": "",
      "spent_outputs": [
        {
          "amount": 13659082425875,
          "key_image": "0b6a04e1a1d7f149a8e8aeb91047b8ab4722de50554b88af4ed7646fd1929947",
          "mixin": 0,
          "out_index": 0,
          "tx_pub_key": ""
        }
      ],
      "timestamp": 1482567670,
      "total_received": 0,
      "total_sent": 13659082425875,
      "tx_pub_key": "41bd5cb51aa26fb58d41acd25711a7ecc2d19be0c24b296a9e362aebee61d4d0",
      "unlock_time": 0
    },
    {
      "coinbase": true,
      "hash": "1f76938b4deceb9e0722f02f4477006d3e96e2331552f726c47f297977434b9c",
      "height": 818908,
      "id": 838719,
      "mempool": false,
      "mixin": 0,
      "payment_id": "",
      "timestamp": 1483311688,
      "total_received": 13388479628538,
      "total_sent": 0,
      "tx_pub_key": "3c71217add3b7882e8370fe6b903bc48059a79580af5e095485afc88b3126d09",
      "unlock_time": 818968
    },
    {
      "coinbase": false,
      "hash": "53cb70ded276fbfcc68c98a8d9577b42c543bf1094d6cbb151fa05c9edb457be",
      "height": 818921,
      "id": 838735,
      "mempool": false,
      "mixin": 5,
      "payment_id": "",
      "spent_outputs": [
        {
          "amount": 13683584012406,
          "key_image": "437518836c315bf989c5cc28b935280345ed672d727122f6d6c5c5ff32e98224",
          "mixin": 0,
          "out_index": 0,
          "tx_pub_key": ""
        }
      ],
      "timestamp": 1483313063,
      "total_received": 12648774828503,
      "total_sent": 13683584012406,
      "tx_pub_key": "3eac7a5ce7dc0cc78172522cef4591a43b0e9aab643ac3b57554fd0dbc8ba86a",
      "unlock_time": 0
    }
  ]
}

get_address_info

curl  -w "\n" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1984/get_address_info -d '{"address": "A2VTvE8bC9APsWFn3mQzgW8Xfcy2SP2CRUArD6ZtthNaWDuuvyhtBcZ8WDuYMRt1HhcnNQvpXVUavEiZ9waTbyBhP6RM8TV", "view_key": "041a241325326f9d86519b714a9b7f78b29111551757eeb6334d39c21f8b7400"}'

Output (only part shown):

{
  "blockchain_height": 965513,
  "locked_funds": 0,
  "new_address": false,
  "scanned_block_height": 965513,
  "scanned_block_timestamp": 1501466493,
  "scanned_height": 0,
  "spent_outputs": [
    {
      "amount": 13683584012406,
      "key_image": "437518836c315bf989c5cc28b935280345ed672d727122f6d6c5c5ff32e98224",
      "mixin": 0,
      "out_index": 0,
      "tx_pub_key": ""
    },
    {
      "amount": 13683584012406,
      "key_image": "ac3088ce17cc608bcf86db65e9061fe4b9b02573b997944e4ebf7d8e64e4a3b4",
      "mixin": 0,
      "out_index": 0,
      "tx_pub_key": ""
    }
  ],
  "start_height": 855633,
  "total_received": 13481878608141995,
  "total_sent": 4699871131811773
}

get_tx

curl  -w "\n" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1984/get_tx -d '{"tx_hash": "bfbfbb3bfa169731a092891795be1c3c923a018882ac0efc0ed3e79e2d2b2e54"}'

Output (only part shown):

{
  "coinbase": false,
  "error": "",
  "fee": 22893920000,
  "mixin_no": 11,
  "no_confirmations": 2898,
  "pub_key": "b753c863c64565ae81630bfdbf497f06955b6ce041f656565809d04be6ef9343",
  "size": 13461,
  "status": "OK",
  "tx_hash": "bfbfbb3bfa169731a092891795be1c3c923a018882ac0efc0ed3e79e2d2b2e54",
  "tx_height": 960491,
  "xmr_inputs": 0,
  "xmr_outputs": 0
}

get_unspent_outs

curl  -w "\n" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1984/get_unspent_outs -d '{"address": "A2VTvE8bC9APsWFn3mQzgW8Xfcy2SP2CRUArD6ZtthNaWDuuvyhtBcZ8WDuYMRt1HhcnNQvpXVUavEiZ9waTbyBhP6RM8TV", "view_key": "041a241325326f9d86519b714a9b7f78b29111551757eeb6334d39c21f8b7400","amount":"0","mixin":4,"use_dust":false,"dust_threshold":"1000000000"}'

Output (only part shown):

{
  "amount": 2746682935584926,
  "outputs": [
    {
      "amount": 2450000000000,
      "global_index": 86136,
      "height": 839599,
      "index": 0,
      "public_key": "6f6a4023bfa407ca1ce37f7382d5ea7540a330575bd570094b5add5e8ded2dd9",
      "rct": "4aca9e9b9a5d63fcf409ac28191696cabb78c0ba14791152509ebe6db7f9311033a1dc75d69a1dad7523f65856d07487aad2bee2098f5566b6d92ec5a5c68f00653d241a9d7f16ff13df87825609e8b2353ec20e50d11f8133d234184d9f8b03",
      "spend_key_images": [
        "2818dae0940fb945185c562fcb0a496f3c3b551f33b7ddd7ec1b5ecd856166e6"
      ],
      "timestamp": "2017-02-01 05:53:28",
      "tx_hash": "9d17084091beedc55c8a0cd342e441b7c0d89eeca25ac151b4b91fe1e12051e7",
      "tx_id": 2117,
      "tx_prefix_hash": "849f11f6b012c1557f87692ca7a67bcb24a5a553078c4faed870b8982821feee",
      "tx_pub_key": "4219b1004fa64bde0213bf3c59b9e160af8603be03d79e13148c15fd598e3a0e"
    },
    {
      "amount": 10000000000,
      "global_index": 86550,
      "height": 840011,
      "index": 0,
      "public_key": "5506e8786b7634a77487f0938a00d3de6ab005e2f76ffee05fee68d5165382f1",
      "rct": "6f78720d6bb0287d78c50bfa41332232fbc4bc9b7f04e35681ff926cc156b1fbfb3b84a2dcdc8cb98b33be70b302e380944abc3e7a7cbf3e27614936eccca40203447622e149ba1e09a7062eb8910acf029f561ecdaa5a34e076baff5d63770e",
      "spend_key_images": [
        "9c82226bdf165fd2424d9a0ead661682bfab2fe644cd0bcef575ae16595c550c"
      ],
      "timestamp": "2017-02-02 03:18:18",
      "tx_hash": "8257367ca6def69dc3d280e8909c3cd01b230fc9922c9a89217db06f3fb41102",
      "tx_id": 2118,
      "tx_prefix_hash": "781a0ce699865987ec78ad331e8e89c0d14461f9881dd11a7a4541114b567568",
      "tx_pub_key": "29ceefd594b856c7c06d2423be17cd674b97d1d8f72907ace8d27f5b6aa9875c"
    }
  ],
  "per_kb_fee": 2480631964
}

get_random_outs

curl  -w "\n" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:1984/get_random_outs -d '{"amounts":["0","0"],"count":5}'

Output (only part shown):

  "amount_outs": [
    {
      "amount": 0,
      "outputs": [
        {
          "global_index": 48449,
          "public_key": "637dbadf193fa9fd5c50c96af18f458a9b7d4844fdf7ffdfa3f62d51d6aff835",
          "rct": "0c908e1969edfe7824560104e44334b46ced17c9462eacb5aaa70e62ea34a394837c07d14bffc5a65e2dd14da395dd135bcc2e5ac70648782d76e4a9920cd007b9ffe319b796c555fb7713a270f21181a5ee5c8b01259becba0dd332b93a6c02"
        },
        {
          "global_index": 67558,
          "public_key": "6ca3a73512dadd669430f73809c949f3edf71728bea5201441c648c2d128c453",
          "rct": "999312ca1914895cf8a517c91a54a069d8fdc7205d7768173618e77fad2fde5c725604d666b101c9ae19c72e07cf5f821603a7b63efb5dfd8a7c0e36ed0c250fa92929cda49ddd0d34e664e15634ee59e958815764ec979b5ff0a72b3af6af0a"
        },
        {
          "global_index": 102186,
          "public_key": "c29d43f5d7c71a6f1b4f3286da3c296a083cf68728d85c268ee0c964a6c8c00e",
          "rct": "23aa82efdbd0c6878060496a13f7a707a6f45649b51de12d54d0cad14c5be5bd00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
        },
        {
          "global_index": 96992,
          "public_key": "fb83d74a42abe65d5b8a6a906791202376b91e3459a31737ac62a401b7b9356c",
          "rct": "975b42f50cabb801091c90a4227bf7ba024ddacfeda7e5e0383f034b0bc8ba2500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
        },
        {
          "global_index": 36848,
          "public_key": "2a8785e42a9446785cf189a40fca8f56a592dab9db1f38f8e8a3d2eb84b680ff",
          "rct": "a09e27b83917792bc8f6c51b40077aea329bf08b569e63657e2ac3529db5d0aa14f9f9fc45930577b43829119847ac857d69c00d12859a903cfcbf470819dc00b1bfa43aa979e46a0d0476cb36717e8d8374afe9af1fb3715091147cc9587e0e"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Need to add other.

Scrap notes (just for myself)

Generate your own ssl certificate

Setting up https and ssl certificates in restbed

• https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed/blob/34187502642144ab9f749ab40f5cdbd8cb17a54a/example/https_service/source/example.cpp

Based on the link above:

# Create Certificate
cd /tmp
openssl genrsa -out server.key 1024
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
openssl dhparam -out dh2048.pem 2048

Other examples

Other examples can be found on github. Please know that some of the examples/repositories are not finished and may not work as intended.

How can you help?

Constructive criticism, code and website edits are always good. They can be made through github.