Create First Listener

Overview

This tutorial will guide you in creating event listeners and learning about the different triggers and actions.

Event listeners enable us to detect specific events that align with predefined criteria, known as triggers. These triggers can be configured via the mintBlue Console to respond to either internal events within the mintBlue ecosystem or real-time transactions occurring on the Bitcoin network. When an event triggers, you can define actions, which are predefined responses to tell mintBlue what to do.

Use Cases

To give some examples, you can set up an event listener to:

Real-time notifications: A user receives a notification when a transaction involving their blockchain account occurs, such as receiving cryptocurrency or tokens.
Automated workflows: Send an email when a transaction is received on a specific address.
Data synchronization: Keep application data in sync with blockchain state changes.
Compliance and Reporting: Track transactions for regulatory compliance and reporting.

Prerequisites

✅ Create an SDK Access Token (see Quick Start)
✅ Create two new projects called Data provenance and Copy data provenance. Don't forget to copy your project IDs.

Step 1: Create a new event listener

To begin, create a new event listener by clicking on the "Create Event Listener" button.

In our example, we'll set up an event listener to trigger for each payment transaction sent to the address 1FoXXU8xneLzkS1Hrhg8Hck7MJLvy3Uzyx. This address should be added to the Trigger Options field.

When this event is triggered, we want to insert this transaction into a project called Copy data provenance as we want to create a copy of each transaction into a different project. You can define multiple actions, but let's only define the Insert into project action for now.

After entering the event details, click Save.

Step 2: Test the event listener

We can test the event listener by sending a transaction from the mintBlue Composer.

First, select a project from which you want to send a transaction. In this example, we are sending a transaction from the Data provenance project.

Let's send a payment transaction by clicking the "Payment" option. You need to provide the address 1FoXXU8xneLzkS1Hrhg8Hck7MJLvy3Uzyx and the number of Satoshis. You can set it to 1.

Send payment transaction with mintBlue Composer

Make sure to click the "Send Transaction Request" button.

Step 3: Verify if the event has triggered

Finally, let's verify if the event has been triggered by going to our project's transactions tab. In our example, we should see two transactions:

Payment transaction we've sent via the mintBlue Composer.
Same payment transaction inserted by the event listener.

In the image below, you can see two transactions. The second transaction has the pink event listener tag (1). If you open the transaction with the event listener tag, you'll see that it has an actions and trigger key (2) in the JSON object.

Transaction inserted by event listener JSON output

Summary

In this tutorial, you've learned to create a trigger and action, and how to verify them. For further details on the different triggers and actions available, you can read the reference documentation for Triggers and Actions.