BlockAid is a decentralised crowdfunding platform that allows users and charities to raise money for their causes. This is designed to help fundraisers widen their range of donors. An aim of the project is to investigate the resources and technologies available to developers to integrate, and several different packages
The process and findings can be read in the attached thesis here.
Ethereum Smart Contracts are used to facilitate donations and withdrawals, making the platform decentralised. Smart Contracts are programs that run on Ethereum-based blockchains, and have a variety of uses.
BlockAid is a MERN stack application which utilises ethers.js and wagmi to connect to the Polygon Mumbai Test Network and interact with crowdfunding smart contracts deployed when a fundraiser is created.
To run the React application and Node.js server, follow the instructions in the build directory of this repo.
BlockAid is also hosted online with AWS S3, click here to enter the site
To use the website features, you will need MetaMask installed. Click the button below to install.
