Canopychain/canopychain-backend

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Indexer, satellite-polling attestor and API for Canopychain, a milestone-verified reforestation funding platform on Stellar

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We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to Canopychain/canopychain-backend to say how often they are merged. 21 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars: 6
Forks: 3
Open beginner issues: 21
Indexed issues: 47

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Oct 8, 2026
Latest indexed: Oct 8, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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docs: add a runbook for rotating the attestor key end to end
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Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 50/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#58 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: add a GET /projects/:id/milestones endpoint returning just the schedule
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Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 63/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#57 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: add a lightweight smoke-test script for a deployed instance
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#56 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
test: cover GET /projects/all requiring admin auth
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#55 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: report database connection pool status on the health endpoint
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#54 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
test: cover the schedule indexer handler replacing milestones wholesale
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#53 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: report the configured poll interval and gap tolerance on /gfw/status
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#52 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
docs: add a troubleshooting entry for ECONNREFUSED on Railway's private network
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Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#51 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: reject POST /projects/register for an onChainId with no matching on-chain project
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#50 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
test: cover evaluateMilestones with an empty observations array
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#49 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
fix: GET /donations without a donor param returns a generic 400
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#48 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: add an admin summary endpoint totalling project counts by status
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#47 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
test: cover the attestation submitter not double-submitting across overlapping poll cycles
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#46 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: log the topic of an on-chain event the indexer does not recognize
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#45 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
fix: the poll worker's exponential backoff has no jitter
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#44 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
test: cover computeNextMilestoneProgress returning null for milestones with no snapshots yet
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#43 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: add an admin-only endpoint to trigger one poll pass for a single project
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Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 66/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#42 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: let GET /projects filter by cancelled status
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#41 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
docs: document CORS_ORIGINS in the main README, not just ENVIRONMENT.md
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#40 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
test: cover handleSchedule refusing to touch a project with an attested milestone
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#39 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
test: cover evaluateMilestones crediting a streak across two observations at the gap boundary
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#38 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: expose a project's poll backoff state on its detail response
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#37 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: add a GET /projects/:id/snapshots endpoint for a project's satellite check history
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Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 68/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#36 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
fix: a malformed GFW_MAX_OBSERVATION_GAP_SECONDS silently becomes NaN
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#35 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
fix: forest_cover_snapshots.raw_response is never populated
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#34 · Opened Oct 9, 2026
feat: make the GFW dataset versions configurable
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#24 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: record the transaction hash of each attestation
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enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#21 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: let the indexer resume from a configurable start ledger
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#20 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: add a platform stats endpoint
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#19 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: cap the size of an uploaded polygon
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#18 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: validate polygon coordinates in the registration intake
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#17 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: report GFW reachability from the health endpoint
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#16 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: add rate limiting to the public endpoints
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enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#15 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: add a seed script for local demo data
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#14 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: record each deposit individually, not just a running total
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enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#13 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: paginate the list endpoints
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enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#12 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: expose a project's forest-cover snapshot history
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#11 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
feat: validate required environment variables at startup
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enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#10 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
fix: the GFW poll worker logs through console instead of the app logger
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bug good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#9 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
fix: GFW requests have no timeout
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bug good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#8 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
fix: withRetry retries errors that can never succeed
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bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#7 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
fix: the indexer ignores attestor rotations, so attestorAddress goes stale
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bug good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#6 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
fix: the indexer ignores the refund event, so refunded donations still show a balance
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bug good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#5 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
fix: the indexer ignores the cancelled event, so cancelled projects still look active
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bug good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#4 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
fix: milestone rows are never created, so attestations update nothing
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bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#3 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
fix: the milestone evaluator and attestation submitter are never called
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bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

Canopychain/canopychain-backend#1 · Opened Sep 11, 2026

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