vIBC SDK for easier deployment on new rollups

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• User story:

  1. As a new rollup I have to deploy vIBC smart contracts and set up clients and connections in order to connect with Polymer Hub.
  2. As an application developer I want to focus on applying the least possible overhead when adding IBC functionality to my contracts.

• Objective:

  • Build an SDK to help rollups deploy vIBC smart contracts easily.
  • Build an SDK to help application devs to scaffold and test IBC enabled contracts easily.

• Implementation tips:

  • Depending on the user group, there’s different implementation strategies
    1. vIBC SDK for chain developers: TO DO
    2. vIBC SDK for app developers: Start from the ibc-app-solidity-template repo and automate some features:
       • add Foundry support
       • add CLI tool to create custom channels, send packets
       • add CLI that implements scaffolding of IBC app templates
       • create an npm package for the Polymer chain registry, see Cosmos equivalent
  • Test out the deployment with different tools like ThirdWeb, Tenderly and more.
  • Build an issue report if required

• Link to relevant contracts - here

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I have signed up and submitted 2 pull requests, hoping to continue contributing ibc-app-solidity-template repo.