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So I have been working on a fork for GMX. In the end it gets stuck on off chain keepers (which was supposedly fixed by Chainlinks upkeep). Can someone please explain what exactly is happening? I dont need the code I just need to understand how keepers fit in for a transaction and how they're set and used.

I see that they're used in other projects as well.

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Chainlink automation(previously known as Chainlink keepers) is a solution of smart contract conditional automation.

It is pretty straightforward to understand and use Chainlink automation(keepers). For every consumer contract(the contract which you want to automate), there are 2 functions that have to be implemented - checkUpkeep and performUpkeep.

The condition(time-based or custom logic) should be defined in checkUpkeep, and execution logics defined in performUpkeep.

With the 2 functions set, Chainlink node(oracle node is off-chain) could check the status by calling function checkUpkeep, and call performUpkeep when the pre-defined condition is met. This is the basic workflow and you can also learn more about Chainlink Automation from master class provided by Chainlink labs.

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  • Thank you. The masterclass link was very helpful :)
    – SideChain Labs
    Feb 3 at 9:53
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keepers are a fundamental piece of the web3 ecosystem and help contracts execute transactions without manual intervention. Keepers are bots checking and executing when specific conditions are met. They live off-chain and his role is to initiate the transactions previously defined.

Imagine that you want to execute a trade when a certain eth/usd threshold has been reached; then you would use a keeper to watch the chain and execute the trade when this happens

I wrote last summer an article explaining the different automation solutions: https://medium.com/coinmonks/smart-contract-automation-state-of-the-art-hack-view-c153944b1a02 as well as how they can help also with randomness solutions https://medium.com/coinmonks/schedule-randomness-with-gelato-and-witnet-api3-chainlink-vrf-1ebc0aac37d

Hope it helps!

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  • Thank you! This is interesting I’ll look deeper into it
    – SideChain Labs
    Jan 30 at 10:04
  • Glad to have helped!
    – donoso.eth
    Jan 30 at 12:24

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