Burst Account Activator

This is a web application (and service) to activate new Burst accounts.

A Burst account is considered active only, if it owns a public key. Usually, the public key is only generated once the account has executed at least one transaction on the blockchain. To execute a transaction one needs
a sufficient balance to pay the transaction fee. To do this, an user who just created an account must ask someone to transfer some BURST to that account (or using a faucet). In that first step, the account will be registered in the blockchain (as receiver) and though exists publicly. To turn from an passive into an active account the user has to create any kind of transaction.

This service sends the user a welcome message and by passing the user accounts public key the account gets activated. Doing so, the user does not need to create a transaction and the sending step can be omitted.

Running the app locally

However you get the code, you can install dependencies and run the project in development mode with:

npm install # or yarn
npm run dev

Open up localhost:3000 and start clicking around.

Building app

To build the application (build that static files) run

npm run build

The static files are stored under __sapper__/build

Deployment

Once built, the application can be deployed on any static file server

Deploying on Now

Now is a "serverless" deployment service from zeit.co. This project is configured to be hosted on Now

Prerequisites

1. Create an account on zeit.co
2. Install now.cli globally on your machine
3. Having a Burst account, which will serve as activator account (the one that sends the welcome messages)
4. Register the secret passphrase for the activator account using
   • testnet: now secrets add activator-account-testnet "<passphrase>"
   • mainnet: now secrets add activator-account-mainnet "<passphrase>"

Deploy

• Deploy a testnet (staging) version: npm run deploy:staging
• Deploy a mainnet (production) version: npm run deploy:production