RPP-05 Defi Explorer

[defiboy]

DefiExplorer Remix Plugin

Background

Defi(decentralized finance) protocols in the Ethereum blockchain have increased in the past months, along with the interest of users to understand about them.

One way to learn more a particular Defi protocol is by looking at its code base, deploying contracts, interact with them. However, at the moment there are a lot of differences between the tools each protocol uses and trying to deploy one protocol for learning purposes can be challenging since the steps to fully deploy 1 single protocol could be painful.

The following table shows the different tooling some Defi protocol uses.

Name	Framework	Repository
Dai	Native solc	https://github.com/makerdao/dss.git
Compound	Saddle	https://github.com/compound-finance/compound-protocol
Aave	Truffle	https://github.com/aave/aave-protocol.git
Uniswap	Waffle	https://github.com/Uniswap/uniswap-v2-core.git
UMA	Truffle	https://github.com/UMAprotocol/protocol.git
Augur	Native solc	https://github.com/AugurProject/augur

As Remix is the best and most used online Ethereum IDE, we think that a Remix plugin that allow users to fully deploy Defi protocols from scratch can facilitate the learning experience.

Proposal

• Create a Defi explorer plugin

• The plugin should allow users to deploy ("install") whole suite of defi protocols in the Ethereum Remix online IDE

• When a user "installs" a Defi protocol, all the contracts of the protocol should be added to the Remix file explorer and the contracts should be deployed to a testnet network.

Design

Technical Tasks

• Define common interface for solidity artifacts (Most likely to reuse CompiledContract interface from Remix)
• Create Defi exporter for the different defi protocols specified previously (DAI, Compound, Aave, Uniswap, UMA, Augur)
• Create a public REST API to store all the different solidity artifacts of all the Defi protocols
• Create Remix plugin that consumes Defi protocols REST API
• Create a deployment engine for Remix
• Create deployment strategies for the different defi protocols specified previously (DAI, Compound, Aave, Uniswap, UMA, Augur)

Remix Requirements

Remix should allow plugins to deploy contracts (To verify functionality)

Limitations

The deployment functionality of Defi protocols is restricted by the limitations of the Remix api udapp.

[defiboy]

This proposal will be split in different phases. The first phase will cover:

• Define standard to extend the API and include more protocols if required
• Create a public REST API to store all the different solidity artifacts of the UMA protocol
• Create a Remix plugin that consumes the UMA Defi protocol via REST API
• Create a deployment engine for Remix
• Create the UMA deployment

[defiboy]

Under development and located https://github.com/Machinalabs/remix-defi-explorer-plugin