Hackathon Ideas

[kuzdogan]

A really nice question was asked during the ETH Global talk if there are specific projects that can be built during a hackathon etc. that would benefit Sourcify.

This is issue aims to gather those here.

[kuzdogan]

A web UI to interact with contracts verified on Sourcify

Etherscan has the feature to let users interact with contracts that are verified. Users can inject a Web3 wallet (e.g. Metamask) and send transactions calling the functions of the contract. It is also possible to "read" contracts without a wallet.

Sourcify is not a block explorer but more of infrastructure: a decentralized source code and metadata repository. It should be possible to build a web UI on top of this infrastructure that will enable this functionality.

The program would fetch the contract metadata from Sourcify and source code. It would be possible to view the source code. Use the metadata.output.abi to show function parameters. Use metadata.output.devdoc to display dev comments and metadata.output.userdoc to show user documentation of the function.

Features

• Search contract by address
• If contract is found take user to the contract interaction UI
  • Here show the distinctions between chains, maybe check wallet chain vs. contract chain
• List "read" functions. Call them without a wallet using Infura etc.
  • Maybe let users use their provider of choice via an RPC field or wallet sign in
• List write functions.
• Show parameters of those functions and their type. Switching between hex and decimals would be nice.
• Show userdoc and devdoc of the function.
• Want to get fancy? Track the transaction. Show success/failure when tx is mined.

Maybe this could added to Otterscan as a feature too