pyth-crosschain/target_chains/ethereum/contracts/Deploying.md

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Deploying Contracts to Production

EVM network configuration

Each network that Pyth is deployed on has some configuration stored on this repo as described below:

  1. truffle-config.js contains list of different networks with their configuration that includes:
    • provider: The network provider is an HDWalletProvider with mnemonic stored in the $MNEMONIC environment variable and the RPC URL of the network.
    • network_id: Network ID of the chain.
    • gas, gasPrice (optional): Usually RPCs estimate gas and gas price efficiently. Although some networks are not good at it and you need to specify them manually.
    • timeoutBlocks (optional): Number of blocks to wait for a transaction to make it to a block. If you specify a low gas price the transaction will be sent but it will never get in a block. Sometimes the network gas price is volatile (like Ethereum) and you need to wait longer than the default timeout.
    • networkCheckTimeout (optional): RPC timeout for requests. Some RPCs might be very slow and you need to have this.
    • confirmations (optional): Number of blocks to wait to consider the transaction final.
    • from (optional): Public address of the mnemonic. Although it can be derived from provider some networks that are not entirely EVM based need it.
  2. .env.prod.<network> contains the contract specific configuration for each network. It contains:
    • MIGRATIONS_DIR: This is either ./migrations/prod or ./migrations/prod-receiver. The prod-receiver migrations should be used when you need to deploy to a chain that is unsupported by the Wormhole network. The Wormhole Receiver contract acts as a read-only Wormhole endpoint that can verify Wormhole messages even if the Wormhole network has not yet connected the chain.
    • MIGRATIONS_NETWORK: Network name in the truffle-config.js file.
    • WORMHOLE_CHAIN_NAME: Chain name in Wormhole. It is either defined in the Wormhole SDK constants or is defined in Wormhole Receiver names. If the new network requires a Receiver contract you need to update the latter file and add the network there.
    • CLUSTER: Cluster of this network. It is either testnet or mainnet. There are some cluster specific configuration that are loaded from .env.cluster.testnet or .env.cluster.mainnet such as data and governance sources. It is also used to get the wormhole contract address. You can override those variable in the network environment file.
    • VALID_TIME_PERIOD_SECONDS: The period that we consider a price to be still valid since its publishTime on Pythnet. For the time being, set this value to at least 60 seconds. If the network block time or transaction landing time is high please increase this value accordingly. For example, Ethereum has the value of 120 seconds. It is good to keep this value the same in testnet and mainnet clusters of the same network. Please look at similar networks when you want to add a new network.

If you wish to deploy to a new network you need to add the above confiugrations. You can find network_id and public RPCs of most of the networks in ChainList. Rest of the parameters are optional and avoid adding them unless it is necessary. Wormhole's truffle-config.js is a good reference too.

Deployment

This is the deployment process:

  1. Follow the installation instructions in the README.md.
  2. As a sanity check on deploying changes for the first time, it is recommended to deploy the migrations in migrations/prod to the Truffle development network first. You can do this by using the configuration values in .env.prod.development.
  3. If you have changed the contract make sure that:
    • The change is not breaking the storage.
    • If it is making a backward incomptabile change, the legacy methods/storages are still used. For example, if the PriceInfos are now stored in a separate storage slot, the old PriceInfo should be accessible when the new one is not populated.
    • the contract version is updated both in Pyth.sol and package.json. Make sure to read the Upgrading the contract and Versioning sections below.
  4. Prepare the required keys for deployment. You can find more information about them on notion. Then:
    • Export the secret recovery phrase for the deployment account. Please store it in a file and read the file into MNEMONIC environment variable like so: export MNEMONIC=$(cat path/to/mnemonic).
    • If you are modifying an existing contract, make sure that the multisig-cli has the operational key stored in governance/multisig_wh_message_builder/keys/key.json.
    • export the Infura RPC API key to INFURA_KEY if you are deploying to a network that uses an Infura RPC.
  5. Make sure the deployment account has proper balance on this network and top it up if needed. Search for testnet faucets if it is a testnet network. Sometimes you need to bridge the network token (e.g., L2s).
  6. Deploy the new contract or changes using the deploy.sh script. You might need to repeat this script because of busy RPCs. Repeating would not cause any problem even if the changes are already made. Also, sometimes the gases are not adjusted and it will cause the tx to remain on the mempool for a long time (so there is no progress until timeout). Please update them with the network explorer gas tracker. Tips in the Troubleshooting section below can help in case of any error. Run the script like this: ./deploy.sh <network_a> <network_b> <...>. For example to deploy changes to testnet networks you can run:
    ./deploy.sh bnb_testnet fantom_testnet mumbai
    
    Upon contract upgrade/state change the script needs to be run a couple of times as the multisig owners need to approve the created transactions. Links to the multisig transactions are printed during the script execution and you can use them. You need to run the script when the transactions are approved. If the deployment script runs successfully you should see many s and no s with a successful message. Please note that if you need to deploy/upgrade a zkSync network contract, you should deploy/upgrade it manually first as described below.
  7. On first time deployments for a mainnet network with Wormhole Receiver contract, run this command:
    npm run receiver-submit-guardian-sets -- --network <network>
    
  8. As a result of this process for some files (with the network id in their name) in networks and directory might change which need to be committed (if they are result of a production deployment). Create a PR for them.
  9. If you are deploying to a new network, please add the new contract address to consumer facing libraries and documentations. Please update the following resources:
  10. (Optional) You can test the deployed contract by sending and fetching a price update as described in the Testing section below.
  11. (Optional) Verify the contract as described in the Verifying the contract section.

networks directory

Truffle stores the address of the deployed contracts in the build artifacts, which can make local development difficult. We use truffle-deploy-registry to store the addresses separately from the artifacts, in the networks directory. When we need to perform operations on the deployed contracts, such as performing additional migrations, we can run npx apply-registry to populate the artifacts with the correct addresses.

Each file in the network directory is named after the network id and contains address of Migration contract and PythUpgradable contract (and Wormhole Receiver if we use prod-receiver). If you are upgrading the contract it should not change. In case you are deploying to a new network make sure to commit this file.

Upgrading the contract

To upgrade the contract you should bump the version of the contract and the npm package to the new version and run the deployment process described above. Please bump the version properly as described in the section below.

When you are making changes to the storage, please make sure that your change to the contract won't cause any collision. For example:

  • Renaming a variable is fine.
  • Changing a variable type to another type with the same size is ok.
  • Appending to the contract variables is ok. If the last variable is a struct, it is also fine to append to that struct.
  • Appending to a mapping value is ok as the contract stores mapping values in a random (hashed) location.

Anything other than the operations above will probably cause a collision. Please refer to Open Zeppelin Upgradeable (documentations)[https://docs.openzeppelin.com/upgrades-plugins/1.x/writing-upgradeable] for more information.

Upgrading the Wormhole guardian set in the Wormhole receiver contracts

If the Wormhole guardian set is going to change, you need to update the guardian set in the Wormhole receiver contracts. You should do it before the guardians start publishing VAAs with the new guardian set and not earlier than 24 hours before that to avoid any possible downtime. After updating the guardian set there is a 24 hour windows that the contracts will accept VAAs from both the old and the new index. So, you will need to do it when you are certain that Guardians will start publishing with the new set soon.

To update the guardian set update the receiverSubmitGuardianSetUpgrades.js script and add the new VAA and comment out the previous upgrades. Then, run it like below on the networks with Wormhole receiver contract:

npm run receiver-submit-guardian-sets -- --network <network>

You should create a PR to add this VAA to the repo for future deployments on new networks with Wormhole receiver contract.

Versioning

We use Semantic Versioning for our releases. When upgrading the contract, update the npm package version using npm version <new version number> --no-git-tag-version. Also, modify the hard-coded value in version() method in the Pyth.sol contract to the new version. Then, after your PR is merged in main, create a release like with tag pyth-evm-contract-v<x.y.z>. This will help developers to be able to track code changes easier.

Testing

The pyth-js repository contains an example with documentation and a code sample showing how to relay your own prices to a target Pyth network. Once you have relayed a price, you can verify the price feed has been updated by doing:

$ npx truffle console --network $MIGRATIONS_NETWORK
> let p = await PythUpgradable.deployed()
> p.queryPriceFeed("0xf9c0172ba10dfa4d19088d94f5bf61d3b54d5bd7483a322a982e1373ee8ea31b") // BTC Testnet or any other address

Verifying the contract

Please first try verifying the contract using truffle as described in VERIFY.md. It that doesn't work Try to manually verify the contract using the explorer UI. You can try to upload the standard json output in build/contracts directory. If that doesn't work either, you can flatten the contract and try to verify it.

To flatten the contract, run the following command:

npx sol-merger contracts/pyth/PythUpgradable.sol

It will create a new file PythUpgradable_merged.sol which you can use in the explorer to verify the implementation contract (using exact sol version and optimization flag). After verifying implementation, you can verify the proxy.

Troubleshooting

  • If you get digital envelope routines::unsupported error, it means you are using a new Node version and it does not work because the truffle dependency is old. As a workaround, you can use the legacy openssl implementation by running this command: export NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider.
  • Sometimes the truffle might fail during the dry-run (e.g., in Ethereum). It is because openzeppelin does not have the required metadata for forking. To fix it please follow the suggestion here.
  • Sometimes due to rpc problems or insufficient gas the migration is not executed completely. It is better to avoid doing multiple transactions in one migration. However, if it happens, you can comment out the part that is already ran (you can double check in the explorer), and re-run the migration. You can avoid gas problems by choosing a much higher gas than what is showed on the network gas tracker. Also, you can find other rpc nodes from here

Deploy/Upgrade on zkSync networks

Although zkSync is EVM compatible, their binary format is different than solc output. So, we need to use their libraries to compile it to their binary format (zk-solc) and deploy it. As of this writing they only support hardhat. To deploy a fresh contract or a new contract do the following steps in addition to the steps described above:

  1. Update the hardhad.config.ts file.
  2. Add the configuration files to truffle-config.js and .env.prod.<network> file as described above. Truffle config is required as the above deployment script still works in changing the contract (except upgrades).
  3. Run npx hardhat clean && npx hardhat compile to have a clean compile the contracts.
  4. Prepare the enviornment:
  • Export the secret recovery phrase for the deployment account. Please store it in a file and read the file into MNEMONIC environment variable like so: export MNEMONIC=$(cat path/to/mnemonic).
  • Copy the correct env file (e.g: .env.production.zksync) to .env.
  1. If you wish to deploy the contract run npx hardhat deploy-zksync --network <network> --script deploy/zkSyncDeploy to deploy it to the new network. Otherwise run npx hardhat deploy-zksync --network <network> --script deploy/zkSyncDeployNewPythImpl.ts to get a new implementation address. Then put it in .<network>.new_impl file and run the deployment script to handle the rest of the changes.