EscrowPi API

EscrowPi is a prototype payment solution designed for the Pi Hackathon 2025, providing a secure, escrow-based payment flow for transactions between buyers and sellers using Pi cryptocurrency. The system aims to simplify how developers integrate Pi payments into their own applications while ensuring that both parties in a transaction are protected through an escrow-like process until all fulfillment conditions are met.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Brand Design
• Tech Stack
• Backend Local Execution
• Team
• Contributions

Overview 🚀

Brand Design

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Tech Stack 📊

• Backend: Express/ NodeJS, REST API
• Database: MongoDB
• DevOps: GitHub Actions

Backend Local Execution

The EscrowPi Back End is a Node.js project.

Build the Project

• Run npm run build to build the project; compile Typescript into Javascript for production to the .dist folder.
  • The build artifacts are bundled for production mode.

Execute the Development Server

• Create .env file from the .env.development template and replace placeholders with actual values.
• Execute npm run dev to connect to nodemon and MongoDB server.
• Navigate to http://localhost:8001/ in your browser.
• Utilize API tools like Insomnia or Postman to execute the API endpoints.
  • The application will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.
  • For local debugging in VS Code, attach the runtime server to the appropriate Process ID.

Execute Unit Tests

• Run npm run test to execute the unit tests via Jest.

Team 🧑👩‍🦱🧔👨🏾‍🦱👨🏾

Project Manager

• Philip Jennings

Technical Lead/ DevOps

• Danny Lee

Application Developers

• Yusuf Adisa
• Rajasekhar Reddy

Contributions

We welcome contributions from the community to improve the EscrowPi project.