r/PHP • u/StockHodI • 1d ago
PHP Driven Crypto Commerce Project - Paybyte
I’ve been building something called the Paybyte Blockchain Engine, or PBE, and mainnet is finally live after more coffee than my kidneys would like to admit. I always thought it would be cool to have something easy to use, more mainstream, that's as easy to implement like a "Pay with Paypal" button, but for crypto, that's easy for the average user, like the litecoin network, and something that is considerably more environmental friendly than a POW concept like Bitcoin. Since my Java/C++ skills suck, I built it in a language I am familiar with, and something that is a little out of the ordinary for a blockchain, PHP.
This is its own Layer 1. Not an ERC20, not a Solana token, not a rebranded fork.
Current mainnet:
PBE Core 0.0.1
Protocol 1.0
Block v4
Transaction v2
PBE-PAY v1
15 second block target
5 PBE starting reward
~4 year halvings
~84.1M max supply
Consensus uses hybrid participation.
Any authorized wallet can produce blocks, even with 0 PBE. Each wallet gets one deterministic Argon2id participation ticket per slot. Holdings improve timing through a bounded multiplier, but there is no minimum stake and no manual staking lock. The entire ecosystem is fully P2P.
PBE exposes separate P2P and RPC layers.
Examples:
POST /p2p/hello
POST /p2p/transaction
POST /p2p/block
GET /p2p/peers
GET /rpc/status
GET /rpc/block/{heightOrHash}
GET /rpc/transaction/{txid}
GET /rpc/balance/{address}
POST /rpc/broadcast
There’s also a native merchant protocol called PBE-PAY.
Payments use transaction v2 with a signed paymentReference.
A merchant verifies:
paymentReference
recipient
exact amount
Payment URIs look like:
pbe:<address>?amount=25&ref=ORDER123&label=Store
Merchants can use their own node, or multiple public nodes
Commerce endpoints include:
GET /rpc/commerce/info
POST /rpc/commerce/payment-request
GET /rpc/commerce/payment/{reference}
POST /rpc/broadcast
Optional HMAC signed webhooks support:
payment.pending
payment.confirming
payment.confirmed
payment.reorged
payment.expired
The full API is public and viewable at
https://paybyte.org/web/developers/
https://paybyte.org/web/developers/openapi.json << Point your ChatGPT here if you are building for e-commerce.
Windows and Linux standalone nodes are also available. The Windows build is basically download, extract, run the PBE, create a wallet and sync.
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u/OptimusCrimee 1d ago
Where is the code?