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# Koin Ping # Koin Ping
A lightweight on-chain monitoring and alerting system designed to give users situational awareness over blockchain addresses they care about. Koin Ping is an MIT-licensed blockchain monitoring system by Steven Jannette
that polls Ethereum addresses for on-chain activity and delivers real-time
## Overview alerts to users via a Go REST API backend and a React single-page application
frontend.
Koin Ping is designed to reliably observe on-chain activity and notify users when predefined conditions are met. It does not execute transactions, manage wallets, or speculate on prices.
## Project Structure
```
koin_ping/
├── backend/ # Node.js + Express + PostgreSQL backend
│ ├── api/ # API endpoints and server configuration
│ ├── poller/ # Blockchain polling logic
│ ├── alerts/ # Alert evaluation and management
│ ├── notifications/ # Notification delivery system
│ ├── domain/ # Domain models and business logic
│ ├── infra/ # Infrastructure (database, external services)
│ └── shared/ # Shared utilities and helpers
└── frontend/ # React + Vite frontend
├── public/ # Static assets
└── src/
├── api/ # Frontend API calls to backend
├── components/ # Reusable UI components
├── pages/ # Top-level pages (views)
└── utils/ # Utility functions
```
## Tech Stack
### Backend
- **Runtime:** Node.js
- **Framework:** Express
- **Database:** PostgreSQL
- **Key Dependencies:**
- `pg` - PostgreSQL client
- `dotenv` - Environment variable management
- `cors` - CORS middleware
- `nodemon` - Development auto-reload
### Frontend
- **Framework:** React 19
- **Build Tool:** Vite
- **Language:** JavaScript/TypeScript (mixed)
- **Type Checking:** TypeScript
## Getting Started ## Getting Started
### Prerequisites ### Prerequisites
- Node.js (v18 or higher recommended)
- PostgreSQL database
- npm or yarn
### Backend Setup - Go 1.24+
- Node.js 18+ and npm (or yarn — preferred per repo policy)
- PostgreSQL 15+
- `golangci-lint` v2 (for `make lint`)
### Setup
1. Navigate to the backend directory:
```bash ```bash
cd backend # Clone and enter the repo
git clone <repo-url>
cd koin_ping_0.2.0
# Install pre-commit hook
make hooks
# Install frontend dependencies
cd frontend && npm install && cd ..
# Copy and fill in environment variables
cp backend-go/.env.example backend-go/.env
# edit backend-go/.env with your DATABASE_URL, FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID, ETH_RPC_URL
# Run checks (requires golangci-lint)
make check
# Start the API server
make run
# Start the poller (separate terminal)
cd backend-go && go run ./cmd/poller
# Start the frontend dev server (separate terminal)
cd frontend && npm run dev
``` ```
2. Install dependencies (already done): The API listens on `http://localhost:3001` and the frontend on
```bash `http://localhost:3000` by default.
npm install
## Rationale
Crypto users who hold or actively monitor addresses need a lightweight,
reliable way to know when on-chain activity occurs without polling block
explorers manually. Koin Ping fills that gap: it watches a set of Ethereum
addresses, evaluates configurable alert rules (incoming transactions, outgoing
transactions, large transfers, balance thresholds), and notifies the user
through Discord webhooks.
## Design
The system is split into two independently deployable processes and one
frontend:
```
koin_ping_0.2.0/
├── backend-go/ # Go monorepo root
│ ├── cmd/api/ # HTTP REST API server
│ ├── cmd/poller/ # Blockchain polling daemon
│ └── internal/
│ ├── config/ # Environment-based config loading
│ ├── database/ # pgx connection pool
│ ├── domain/ # Shared domain types
│ ├── firebase/ # Firebase auth client
│ ├── handlers/ # HTTP handler wiring
│ ├── middleware/ # Auth middleware
│ ├── models/ # SQL persistence layer
│ ├── notifications/ # Discord webhook delivery
│ ├── protocols/ethereum/ # Ethereum JSON-RPC client
│ ├── services/ # Observer and evaluator business logic
│ └── wei/ # ETH/Wei conversion utilities
└── frontend/ # React + Vite SPA
└── src/
├── api/ # Fetch wrappers for the REST API
├── components/ # Reusable UI components
├── contexts/ # React contexts (auth, etc.)
├── firebase/ # Firebase SDK initialization
└── pages/ # Top-level route pages
``` ```
3. Create a `.env` file (see backend/README.md for required variables) **API server** (`cmd/api`): standard-library `net/http` with Firebase JWT
authentication middleware. Exposes CRUD endpoints for addresses, alert rules,
alert events, and notification configuration.
4. Start the development server: **Poller** (`cmd/poller`): long-running daemon that polls Ethereum via
```bash JSON-RPC, compares observed transactions against persisted alert rules, fires
npm run dev alert events to the database, and dispatches Discord notifications.
```
The backend will run on `http://localhost:3001` **Frontend** (`frontend/`): React 19 SPA built with Vite. Authenticates with
Firebase, communicates with the API via fetch, and renders the address/alert
management UI.
### Frontend Setup ## TODO
1. Navigate to the frontend directory: - [ ] Switch frontend package manager from npm to yarn (per repo policy)
```bash - [ ] Rename `go.mod` module path from `github.com/kjannette/koin-ping` to
cd frontend `sneak.berlin/go/koin-ping` (per repo policy)
``` - [ ] Move database migrations to `internal/db/migrations/` and embed them
in the binary
- [ ] Pin all Docker base images by `@sha256` in Dockerfile
- [ ] Install `golangci-lint` locally and pass `make lint`
- [ ] Add vitest unit tests for the React frontend
- [ ] Add a `make db-reset` / `make migrate` target for schema management
- [ ] Set HTTP server read/write timeouts (currently unbounded)
- [ ] Replace `log.Printf` calls with structured `log/slog`
2. Install dependencies (already done): ## License
```bash
npm install
```
3. Start the development server: MIT. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
```bash
npm run dev
```
The frontend will run on `http://localhost:3000` ## Author
Steven Jannette