Introducing, the mint

Use the mint to pair a new private key with new tokens.

Cargo.toml

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ authors = [
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 
 [[bin]]
-name = "silk-demo"
+name = "silk-historian-demo"
-path = "src/bin/demo.rs"
+path = "src/bin/historian-demo.rs"
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "silk-client-demo"
@@ -24,12 +24,16 @@ name = "silk-testnode"
 path = "src/bin/testnode.rs"
 
 [[bin]]
-name = "silk-genesis-block"
+name = "silk-genesis"
-path = "src/bin/genesis-block.rs"
+path = "src/bin/genesis.rs"
 
 [[bin]]
-name = "silk-genesis-file-demo"
+name = "silk-genesis-demo"
-path = "src/bin/genesis-file-demo.rs"
+path = "src/bin/genesis-demo.rs"
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "silk-mint"
+path = "src/bin/mint.rs"
 
 [badges]
 codecov = { repository = "loomprotocol/silk", branch = "master", service = "github" }

README.md

@@ -32,27 +32,27 @@ First, build the demo executables in release mode (optimized for performance):
 ```
 
 The testnode server is initialized with a transaction log from stdin and
-generates a log on stdout. To create the input log, we'll need to create
+generates new log entries on stdout. To create the input log, we'll need
-a *genesis* configuration file and then generate a log from it. It's done
+to create *the mint* and use it to generate a *genesis log*. It's done in
-in two steps here because the demo-genesis.json file contains a private
+two steps because the mint.json file contains a private key that will be
-key that will be used later in this demo.
+used later in this demo.
 
 ```bash
-    $ ./silk-genesis-file-demo > demo-genesis.json
+    $ echo 500 | ./silk-mint > mint.json
-    $ cat demo-genesis.json | ./silk-genesis-block > demo-genesis.log
+    $ cat mint.json | ./silk-genesis > genesis.log
 ```
 
 Now you can start the server:
 
 ```bash
-    $ cat demo-genesis.log | ./silk-testnode > demo-entries0.log
+    $ cat genesis.log | ./silk-testnode > transactions0.log
 ```
 
 Then, in a separate shell, let's execute some transactions. Note we pass in
 the JSON configuration file here, not the genesis log.
 
 ```bash
-    $ cat demo-genesis.json | ./silk-client-demo
+    $ cat mint.json | ./silk-client-demo
 ```
 
 Now kill the server with Ctrl-C, and take a look at the transaction log. You should
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Now restart the server from where we left off. Pass it both the genesis log, and
 the transaction log.
 
 ```bash
-    $ cat demo-genesis.log demo-entries0.log | ./silk-testnode > demo-entries1.log
+    $ cat genesis.log transactions0.log | ./silk-testnode > transactions1.log
 ```
 
 Lastly, run the client demo again, and verify that all funds were spent in the

src/bin/genesis-demo.rs

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use silk::transaction::Transaction;
 use silk::log::create_entries;
 use silk::signature::{KeyPair, KeyPairUtil, PublicKey};
 use silk::hash::Hash;
+use std::io::stdin;
 
 fn transfer(from: &KeyPair, (to, tokens): (PublicKey, i64), last_id: Hash) -> Event {
     Event::Transaction(Transaction::new(&from, to, tokens, last_id))
@@ -16,15 +17,14 @@ fn main() {
     let alice = (KeyPair::new().pubkey(), 200);
     let bob = (KeyPair::new().pubkey(), 100);
 
-    let gen = Genesis::new(500);
+    let gen: Genesis = serde_json::from_reader(stdin()).unwrap();
     let from = gen.keypair();
     let seed = gen.seed();
     let mut events = gen.create_events();
     events.push(transfer(&from, alice, seed));
     events.push(transfer(&from, bob, seed));
 
-    let entries = create_entries(&seed, events);
+    for entry in create_entries(&seed, events) {
-    for entry in entries {
         println!("{}", serde_json::to_string(&entry).unwrap());
     }
 }

src/bin/genesis.rs

@@ -1,18 +1,14 @@
 //! A command-line executable for generating the chain's genesis block.
 
-extern crate ring;
 extern crate serde_json;
 extern crate silk;
 
 use silk::genesis::Genesis;
-use silk::log::verify_slice;
 use std::io::stdin;
 
 fn main() {
     let gen: Genesis = serde_json::from_reader(stdin()).unwrap();
-    let entries = gen.create_entries();
+    for x in gen.create_entries() {
-    verify_slice(&entries, &entries[0].id);
-    for x in entries {
         println!("{}", serde_json::to_string(&x).unwrap());
     }
 }

src/bin/mint.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+extern crate serde_json;
+extern crate silk;
+
+use silk::genesis::Genesis;
+use std::io;
+
+fn main() {
+    let mut input_text = String::new();
+    io::stdin().read_line(&mut input_text).unwrap();
+
+    let trimmed = input_text.trim();
+    let tokens = trimmed.parse::<i64>().unwrap();
+    let gen = Genesis::new(tokens);
+    println!("{}", serde_json::to_string(&gen).unwrap());
+}