FL with Blockchain

Blockchain implementation from github.com/satwikkansal.

Instructions to run

Install the dependencies,

pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the FL server

# Windows users can follow this: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/cli/#application-discovery
python3 node_server.py

Start the FL client

python3 node_client.py

The server now runs on port 8000 and the client at 8001.

Register the client with the server using

curl -X POST \
  http://127.0.0.1:8001/register_with \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"node_address": "http://127.0.0.1:8000"}'

The above step is very important for the blockchain setup. Now the server and the client are the nodes of the blockchain network.

In a separate terminal, run python3 client.py. This will start the training of the model.

The chain and the peers of the nodes can be inspected by invoking /chain and /peers endpoints respectively, using cURL.

curl -X GET http://localhost:8000/chain
curl -X GET http://localhost:8001/chain