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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<title>Vanillae Project</title>
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<body>
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<center>
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<img src="./art/Vanillae_circle_logo_256.png" width="128px" height="128px">
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<h1 style="font-size: 32px">Vanillae Project</h1>
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</center>
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<div class="section orangeish" id="s-tldr">
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<h2>1. tl;dr</h2>
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<p>This is a set of libraries, applications, and utilities which make it
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easy to for developers to use the Æternity payment network.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section skyish" id="s-downloads">
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<h2>2. Downloads</h2>
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<p>If you aren't sure if you want the mindist or the fulldist, you probably want the mindist.</p>
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<p>The mindist is a tarball you can drop on your server and it should just work.</p>
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<p>The fulldist is a Jex thing. You can install the package to your local
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repo using <code>jex install foo-bar-X.Y.Z-fulldist.tar.gz</code>. It
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includes the mindist but also the docs. This is what you want if you are
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using Jex in your development flow.</p>
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<table>
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<tr>
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<th><b>Package Name</b></th>
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<th><b>Version</b></th>
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<th><b>Mindist</b></th>
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<th><b>Docs</b></th>
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<th><b>Description</b></th>
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<td>awcp</td>
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<td>0.2.2</td>
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<td><a href="./jex/mindists/vr-awcp-0.2.2.tar.gz">Download</a></td>
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<td><a href="./jex/docs/vr-awcp-0.2.2/">Docs</a></td>
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<td><b>ÆPP-WÆLLET COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL:</b> type definitions for
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messages passed between page scripts and browser wallets</td>
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<td>sidekick</td>
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<td>0.2.2</td>
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<td><a href="./jex/mindists/vr-sidekick-0.2.2.tar.gz">Download</a></td>
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<td><a href="./jex/docs/vr-sidekick-0.2.2/">Docs</a></td>
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<td><b>SIDEKICK:</b> simple library for talking to a browser wallet
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extension from a page script. Implements the "Æpp" side of
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AWCP.</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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</div>
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<div class="section pinkish" id="s-contents">
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<h2>3. Contents</h2>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#s-tldr">tl;dr</a></li>
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<li><a href="#s-downloads">Downloads</a></li>
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<li><a href="#s-contents">Contents</a></li>
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<li><a href="#s-motivation-history">Motivation/History</a></li>
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<li><a href="#s-vanillae-erl">Vanillae.erl</a></li>
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<li><a href="#s-sidekick">Sidekick</a></li>
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</ol>
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</div>
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<div class="section reddish" id="s-motivation-history">
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<h2>4. Motivation/History</h2>
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<p>The two developers on this project are Craig Everett and Peter
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Harpending. Craig is an Erlang graybeard. Peter is a recovering
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mathematician who reluctantly programs because food is kind of expensive.
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For the most part, Craig handles the Erlang stuff, and Peter handles the
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TypeScript stuff (hurray).</p>
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<p>Vanillae started as our own internal toolset that we developed in the
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process of making <a href="https://aegora.jp/">Aegora.jp</a>. Aegora is a
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normal, vanilla, e-commerce site. We just happen to use Æternity as the
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payment backend. In particular, Craig developed Vanillae.erl because
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talking to the blockchain from the server backend was needlessly annoying,
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and Peter developed Sidekick because the Æternity JavaScript SDK was (is)
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impossible to use. We then open-sourced our "talk to Æternity" tooling,
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and the Æternity Foundation decided to pay us to continue to develop it and
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expand it.</p>
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<p>Aegora is the first normal e-commerce platform that utilizes any form of
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cryptocurrency. We would like if Aegora made us billionaires, but really
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Aegora is a proof-of-concept; that concept being "cryptocurrency could
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actually be useful."</p>
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<p>Our hope is that you (yes, <i>you</i>) will be inspired by Aegora, and
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go off and use Æternity for your own commercial projects. The point of the
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Vanillae project is to make it easy for you to do that. Craig and I are
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also working on a number of other projects to make Æternity useful to
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ordinary people, not just developers.</p>
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<p>Cryptocurrency has thus far failed to penetrate the economy of ordinary
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goods and services. Cryptocurrency has been used on the dark web for
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buying babies and cocaine, and for various scams such as NFTs, fraudulent
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crypto exchanges, and pump-and-dump schemes. One has to ask: why?</p>
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<p>Our hypothesis is that most cryptocurrencies (i.e. every coin except
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Æternity) are technically deficient to the point that they are totally
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useless in The Space Of Things That Actually Have To Work (e.g.
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non-scam commerce). To test this hypothesis, our goal is to make Æternity
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easily usable and see if people start using it in The Space Of Things That
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Actually Have To Work.</p>
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<p>As of July 2023, Æternity is still in the same usability class as Arch
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Linux. Our goal with this project to get to like Debian.<p>
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<p>From our personal experience building Aegora, <i>once you understand how
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to use it</i>, Æternity is <b><i>by far</i></b> the easiest electronic
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payment system to use in a commercial application. It is the genuine
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manifestation of Satoshi's dream.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section yellowish" id="s-vanillae-erl">
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<h2>4. Vanillae.erl</h2>
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<p>This is an Erlang application that smooths over the rough edges
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involved in talking to Æternity nodes from an Erlang program.</p>
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<p>Vanillae.erl is also a standard that is meant to be mimicked in other
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languages. The idea is to have a "library" (Erlangers: it's an Erlang
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application) of Erlang function calls that return natural Erlang data
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structures. The API is designed in such a way that the API should
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generalize to other languages. We would like there to be a Vanillae.py for
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instance (Python 2 of course), which would maybe require startup or
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something, maybe the natural idiom would be whatever you do to make `with`
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syntax work, whatever. The point is, there should be a
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</div>
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<div class="section skyish" id="s-sidekick">
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<h2>5. Sidekick</h2>
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<p>Sidekick is a simple, transparent, and self-contained library for
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talking to an Æternity browser wallet extension (e.g. Superhero [hence the
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name] or Jack Russell) from your page script.</p>
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