OKTC Wasm instruction manual#

This manual will mainly discuss how to use CLI commands on OKTC for all actions regarding wasm smart contracts.

Terminologies and operations#

No.OKTC Wasm Terminologies and OperationsFunctionReturnMust be the contract adminCounterpart in EVM
1bytecodea wasm binary file compiled from rust or c++ code by a traditional cargo building pipelinebytecode
2bytecode idEvery bytecode has a unique bytecode id after being deployed to OKTC. Increments by natural numbers. The minimum is 1N/A
3Contract addressrepresents a contract instanceGenerated by: hash(bytecode id, contract id)represents a contract instance Generated by: hash(EOA address, nonce)
4Contract adminAn EOA address that has some privileges to operate the contractThe admin of a proxy contract, which implements delegation of calls to a logic contract, who can update code of the logic contract
5labelHow to classify contractsN/A
6exchaincli tx wasm storeDeploy a bytecodeBytecode IDN/AN/A
7exchaincli tx wasm instantiateInstantiate a contract by a bytecode id, to which the contract address is bound. We can instantiate multiple contracts against the same bytecode id. One contract can not be bound to more than one bytecode id at the same time.Contract addressN/ADeploy a bytecode then get a contract address
8exchaincli tx wasm executeExecute a txTx resultnExecute a tx
9exchaincli tx wasm migrateBind a contract address to another bytecode id.yupdate code of the logic contracts of a proxy-logic contract pair
10exchaincli tx wasm set-contract-adminUpdate contract adminyChange proxy admin by calling: (function changeAdmin)
11exchaincli tx wasm clear-contract-adminremove contract admin An irreversible operationyset a blockhole address to proxy admin An irreversible operation

Environment configuration#

Install essential tools#

In this section, we will discuss how to set up our machine and install the prerequisites for developing, deploying and interacting with smart contracts on OKTC chain.

Install OKTC#

Make sure you have the OKTC application installed, installation instructions.

Install Rust#

Install Rust environment (Linux or MacOS), installation instructions. After installing Rust, you need to confirm your machine has wasm32 target

rustup default stable
cargo version
# If this is lower than 1.55.0+, update
rustup update stable

rustup target list --installed
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
rustup target list --installed
// output is expected to contain 'wasm32-unknown-unknown'  

Change Rust crates registry to speed up downloading rust library. Refer to this blog.

Install command line tool#

#This article only shows an example of the ubuntu environment, centos installs it by itself
apt install jq curl

Configure network#

You can choose to test on mainnet, testnet or local testnet.

OKTC Mainnet#

Mainnet does not need to set up nodes; you can directly access RPC node services provided by OKTC for developing OKTC wasm contracts. If you need to build your own test network node, please refer to mainnnet node set up.

Configure your exchaincli

exchaincli config chain-id exchain-66
exchaincli config trust-node true
# If you are building your own node, please refer to the following commands
# exchaincli config node <host>:<port>
exchaincli config node https://exchaintmrpc.okex.org

Wasm is not enabled on mainnet now.

OKTC testnet#

Testnet does not need to set up nodes; you can directly access RPC node services provided by OKTC for developing OKTC wasm contracts. If you need to build your own test network node, please refer to testnet node set up.

Configure your exchaincli

exchaincli config chain-id exchain-65
exchaincli config trust-node true

# If you are building your own node, please refer to the following commands
# exchaincli config node <host>:<port>
exchaincli config node https://exchaintesttmrpc.okex.org

Local net#

Download the OKTC source code and set up the OKTC local net through the script we provide.

git clone https://github.com/okx/exchain.git
cd exchain/dev
sh start.sh

With start.sh, there is no need to configure exchaincli

Note: the following actions are all done with the local net, if you would like to use mainnet/testnet, please modify --from flag.

Set up IDE#

We need a decent IDE in order to use Rust for developing smart contracts. We strongly recommend using the following development environments; along with the Rust plugin, they provide users with a beginner friendly program language learning environment.

Use the standard IDE and Rust plugin for developing OKTC wasm contracts

IDEPluginDescription
VSCodeRLS for VSCodeRecommended to use
IntelliJ IDEA community versionIntelliJ RustRecommended to use if you’re an IntelliJ product user

Deploying CW20 taught by hand#

CW20's contract standard is similar to that of ERC20, and cw20-base is a basic implementation of the CW20 standard. Next, we will take the cw20-base contract as an example to introduce the entire process of smart contracts on OKTC wasm from compilation to deployment and interaction. Content is applicable to all learners, regardless of experience with Rust and Go. The goal of this section is to provide easy to understand instructions and a first-hand experience for first-time users with the following step-by-step guide.

  • Compile contract: demonstrate how to download and compile wasm bytecode file from smart contract code.

  • Optimize compilation: demonstrate how to optimize a wasm bytecode file to the most suitable size.

  • Upload contract code: demonstrate how to upload compiled contract code (wasm file) to blockchain.

  • Initialize contract: demonstrate how to initialize a contract according to its contract code.

  • Call contract: demonstrate how to deploy contract to testnet, instantiate and execute smart contract functions.

  • Query contract: demonstrate how to query contract's internal state.

    You may have already noticed some areas of smart contract compilation we have yet to mention in this section. This section has been deliberately tailored to make it as easy to understand as possible, avoiding the risk of falling victim to the hardships of smart contract development. If you want to learn more about OKTC wasm contract code development, you can refer to CosmWasm document, because OKTCWasm is developed based on CosmWasm.

Contract compliation#

  1. Pull cw20-base contract code offered by the official directory
# You are now in 'exchain/dev' derectory
git clone https://github.com/CosmWasm/cw-plus.git
cd cw-plus/contracts/cw20-base
  1. Compile contract bytecode and schema file (schema is similar to Ethereum’s abi)
# compile to wasm code
RUSTFLAGS="-C link-arg=-s" cargo wasm
# output is cw-plus/target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/cw20_base.wasm

# compile the schema, it shows all APIs and paramters of the code
cargo schema
# output is cw-plus/contracts/cw20-base/schema/cw20-base.json

The final deployment and interaction of the contract only requires cw20_base.wasm and cw20-base.json.

If the size of the wasm file compiled by your own contract through the above operations is too large, it will consume a high amount of gas when uploading the contract code. So in order to reduce gas costs, you need to use the optimized compiler (hyperlink in subsection below) wasm file.

Optimized compiler (optional)#

To keep gas costs down, the binary size should be as small as possible. This will lower deployment costs and lower the cost per interaction. You can use rust-optimizer to optimize the production code. Generate repeatable builds of OKTC wasm smart contracts. This means that a third party can verify that the contract is actually the declared code.

Note: You need to install Docker before you can use rust-optimizer.

Navigate to the project root directory of cw-plus and run the following commands:

docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/code \
--mount type=volume,source="$(basename "$(pwd)")_cache",target=/code/target \
--mount type=volume,source=registry_cache,target=/usr/local/cargo/registry \
cosmwasm/rust-optimizer:0.12.11

After compilation optimization is complete, the optimized wasm file will be outputted to ./artifacts/cw20-base.wasm

Upload contract code#

# upload the wasm code to OKTC and you will get a code id.

exchaincli tx wasm store ./cw-plus/target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/cw20_base.wasm --from captain --fees 0.001okt --gas 3000000 -b block -y

You can query tx by hash to get the transaction receipt. The code id is 1 in the transaction receipt. Maybe you will see other number in your transaction receipt, because this number will increase for every transaction which calls wasm store.

{
  "height": "37",
  "txhash": "4E1363924850071645B4828BC8EA0928EC5E189AEF5D49401E49BB63A59276C3",
  "data": "0802",
  "raw_log": "[{\"msg_index\":0,\"log\":\"\",\"events\":[{\"type\":\"message\",\"attributes\":[{\"key\":\"action\",\"value\":\"store-code\"},{\"key\":\"module\",\"value\":\"wasm\"},{\"key\":\"sender\",\"value\":\"ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v\"}]},{\"type\":\"store_code\",\"attributes\":[{\"key\":\"code_id\",\"value\":\"2\"}]}]}]",
  "logs": [
    {
      "msg_index": 0,
      "log": "",
      "events": [
        {
          "type": "message",
          "attributes": [
            {
              "key": "action",
              "value": "store-code"
            },
            {
              "key": "module",
              "value": "wasm"
            },
            {
              "key": "sender",
              "value": "ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "type": "store_code",
          "attributes": [
            {
              "key": "code_id",
              "value": "1"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "gas_wanted": "3000000",
  "gas_used": "2040918"
}

Initialize contract#

After uploading the contract code, it only saves the code on the blockchain without actually initializing a specific contract. developers can use the code previously uploaded to the chain and the corresponding initialization parameters to initialize a wasm smart contract and get a contract address.

# Instantiate a contract with the uploaded code. We can use the code we upload in previous step.
# e.g.
#    code_id=1
#    instantiate_message='{"decimals":10,"initial_balances":[{"address":"ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v","amount":"100000000"}],"name":"my test token", "symbol":"mtt"}'
#    --label=test (label can be any human readable string)
#    --admin=ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v (usually same as from)
#    --from=ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v
#    --fees=0.001okt
#    --gas=3000000

exchaincli tx wasm instantiate 1 '{"decimals":10,"initial_balances":[{"address":"ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v","amount":"100000000"}],"name":"my test token", "symbol":"mtt"}' --label test --admin ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v --from ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v --fees 0.001okt --gas 3000000 -b block -y

What is instantiate message? It is the parameters in JSON type to be used to instantiate the contract. And we can find the schema in cw20-base.json. The admin address can update the contract after instantiation.

"instantiate": {
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "title": "InstantiateMsg",
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "decimals",
    "initial_balances",
    "name",
    "symbol"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "decimals": {
      "type": "integer",
      "format": "uint8",
      "minimum": 0.0
    },
    "initial_balances": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/definitions/Cw20Coin"
      }
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "symbol": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "definitions": {
    "Binary": {
      "description": "Binary is a wrapper around Vec<u8> to add base64 de/serialization with serde. It also adds some helper methods to help encode inline.\n\nThis is only needed as serde-json-{core,wasm} has a horrible encoding for Vec<u8>",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "Cw20Coin": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "address",
        "amount"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "address": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "amount": {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/Uint128"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "Uint128": {
      "description": "A thin wrapper around u128 that is using strings for JSON encoding/decoding, such that the full u128 range can be used for clients that convert JSON numbers to floats, like JavaScript and jq.\n\n# Examples\n\nUse `from` to create instances of this and `u128` to get the value out:\n\n``` # use cosmwasm_std::Uint128; let a = Uint128::from(123u128); assert_eq!(a.u128(), 123);\n\nlet b = Uint128::from(42u64); assert_eq!(b.u128(), 42);\n\nlet c = Uint128::from(70u32); assert_eq!(c.u128(), 70); ```",
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}

The instantiate message has 4 fields:

FieldType
decimalsinteger
initial_balancesCw20Coin
namestring
symbolstring

So instantiate message can be:

{"decimals":10,"initial_balances":[{"address":"ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v","amount":"100000000"}],"name":"my test token", "symbol":"mtt"}

The contract address is ex14hj2tavq8fpesdwxxcu44rty3hh90vhujrvcmstl4zr3txmfvw9s6fqu27 in transaction receipt.

{
  "height": "1543",
  "txhash": "8DECDF535C78880DCA9FFEF625D8B53425DBD70C6E33AD8282B4CDB63882D46E",
  "data": "0A3D65783134686A32746176713866706573647778786375343472747933686839307668756A7276636D73746C347A723374786D6676773973366671753237",
  "raw_log": "[{\"msg_index\":0,\"log\":\"\",\"events\":[{\"type\":\"instantiate\",\"attributes\":[{\"key\":\"_contract_address\",\"value\":\"ex14hj2tavq8fpesdwxxcu44rty3hh90vhujrvcmstl4zr3txmfvw9s6fqu27\"},{\"key\":\"code_id\",\"value\":\"1\"}]},{\"type\":\"message\",\"attributes\":[{\"key\":\"action\",\"value\":\"instantiate\"},{\"key\":\"module\",\"value\":\"wasm\"},{\"key\":\"sender\",\"value\":\"ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v\"}]}]}]",
  "logs": [
    {
      "msg_index": 0,
      "log": "",
      "events": [
        {
          "type": "instantiate",
          "attributes": [
            {
              "key": "_contract_address",
              "value": "ex14hj2tavq8fpesdwxxcu44rty3hh90vhujrvcmstl4zr3txmfvw9s6fqu27"
            },
            {
              "key": "code_id",
              "value": "1"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "type": "message",
          "attributes": [
            {
              "key": "action",
              "value": "instantiate"
            },
            {
              "key": "module",
              "value": "wasm"
            },
            {
              "key": "sender",
              "value": "ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "gas_wanted": "200000",
  "gas_used": "173636"
}

Call contract#

After contract initialization is complete, all users can make a call on this contract.

# Call the contract with execute message defined in schema json.
# e.g.
#    contract_address=ex1eyfccmjm6732k7wp4p6gdjwhxjwsvje44j0hfx8nkgrm8fs7vqfsfxfyxv
#    execute_message='{"transfer":{"amount":"100","recipient":"ex190227rqaps5nplhg2tg8hww7slvvquzy0qa0l0"}}'
#    --admin=ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v (usually same as from)
#    --from=ex1h0j8x0v9hs4eq6ppgamemfyu4vuvp2sl0q9p3v
#    --fees=0.001okt
#    --gas=3000000

exchaincli tx wasm execute ex14hj2tavq8fpesdwxxcu44rty3hh90vhujrvcmstl4zr3txmfvw9s6fqu27 '{"transfer":{"amount":"100","recipient":"ex190227rqaps5nplhg2tg8hww7slvvquzy0qa0l0"}}' --from captain --fees 0.001okt --gas 3000000 -b block -y

There are many methods defined in the cw20-base contract, and each method has a corresponding execute message. Therefore, only the transfer method is used as an example to introduce the contract call.

execute message schema of transfer method in cw20-base.json:

{
  "description": "Transfer is a base message to move tokens to another account without triggering actions",
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "transfer"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "transfer": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "amount",
        "recipient"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "amount": {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/Uint128"
        },
        "recipient": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

One of the execute messages is transfer message, and transfer message can be:

{"transfer":{"amount":"100","recipient":"ex190227rqaps5nplhg2tg8hww7slvvquzy0qa0l0"}}

It means send 100 cw20 token to ex190227rqaps5nplhg2tg8hww7slvvquzy0qa0l0 address.

Query contract#

The contract state usually changes after the contract is called, so it is also possible to verify that the contract logic is correct with this method.

# query state of the contract
# e.g. query balance of the given address in cw20 contract
#    contract_address=ex14hj2tavq8fpesdwxxcu44rty3hh90vhujrvcmstl4zr3txmfvw9s6fqu27
#    query_message='{"balance":{"address":"ex190227rqaps5nplhg2tg8hww7slvvquzy0qa0l0"}}'

exchaincli query wasm contract-state smart ex14hj2tavq8fpesdwxxcu44rty3hh90vhujrvcmstl4zr3txmfvw9s6fqu27 '{"balance":{"address":"ex190227rqaps5nplhg2tg8hww7slvvquzy0qa0l0"}}'

There are many contract query interfaces defined in cw20-base, each method has a corresponding query_message, so only the balance query is used as an example to introduce the contract query.

query message schema of balance query in cw20-base.json:

{
  "description": "Returns the current balance of the given address, 0 if unset.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "balance"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "balance": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "address"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "address": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

So the query message can be:

'{"balance":{"address":"ex190227rqaps5nplhg2tg8hww7slvvquzy0qa0l0"}}'

The cw20 balance of ex190227rqaps5nplhg2tg8hww7slvvquzy0qa0l0 is expected to be 100 since we transferred 100 cw20 token to ex190227rqaps5nplhg2tg8hww7slvvquzy0qa0l0. And the query response will be:

{"data":{"balance":"100"}}