This as the name implies is a mash up of both the business logic and data analysis teams.

Repo

The repo can be found here

What You need to know

The base requirement for participation is understanding of Javascript or Python. The backend design is still in the works. However at a high level, we are to provide data gotten from opens source apis about the state of given blockchain and a fickle prediction on the near future based on historical pricing. We shall be sending this data over a REST API and we should have a good idea of what REST APIs.

Reading Resources

Rest APIs: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/rest-apis

More on REST: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/01/understanding-using-rest-api/

Introduction to Serverless: https://www.serverless.com/guides/what-is-serverless

More on Serverless: https://www.serverless.com/guides/aws-http-apis

Coingecko API : https://www.coingecko.com/en/api

Etherscan Api Docs: https://docs.etherscan.io

COINMARKETCAP: https://coinmarketcap.com/api/documentation/v1/

User Stories

The app is expected to do the following.

  1. Receive and validate the request {Seyi}
  2. Get the local currency {Tobi}
    1. using the provided lat and longitude values get the localĀ  currency of the user and the symbol from PositionStack Api .
    2. if no location is provided get the local currency and symbol from the IP Address.