Questions tagged [contract-design]
for high-level questions about the choices made during contract construction
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Solidity re-entrancy attacks and how to guard against them
I'm trying to understand re-entrancy attacks. Is tip1() below at risk of a re-entrancy attack (if the fallback function of the miner's contract invokes tip1() itself)? And if so, is tip2() safe?
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Can you use smart contract 'instances' rather than deploying each new contract?
My apologies in advance for this noob question, I think a scenario might be the best way to ask:
I have a simple escrow smart contract that facilitates the buying of products. For simplicity sake, the ...
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Is using blockhash a good source of randomness on PoS blockchains with a lot of blocks mined in a short period of time?
I am trying to make a casino-like game using a smart contract and employing only on-chain data. I understand that on a blockchain like Ethereum a malicious miner can cheat the system by withholding ...
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Is it possible to upgrade an NFT instead of having to burn the previous and creating a new one?
I wanted to know if this was possible. For example, if I own 1 NFT of Charmander and I then "mint" an evolve, is there a way to turn the first Charmander into Charmeleon without creating a ...
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Why do we grant access to our funds instead of just sending them to the smart contract?
In DeFi I have seen that users are prompted to give access to their funds. Why not just send those funds to the smart contract instead?
What is the advantage of this design?
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Storing struct with mapping inside of mapping
I have the following structures defined in my smart contract:
mapping(bytes4 => Question) private questions;
struct Question {
bytes8[] answers;
mapping(bytes32 => bool) answerers;
}
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Let users add data to smart contract anonymously: Possible?
To learn more about smart contracts, I thought I could start by building a super simple dApp, which only does two things: Allow users (addresses) to share some random info to the contract (In my case ...
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Best practices for functions with highly variable gas cost
I'm developing a Dapp with a function (let's just call functionA) that has potentially significantly different gas cost between invocations. This is due to the need for costly extra computation when ...
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Can an external source be used in place of a proxy contract?
The recommended way to create updatable contracts is to create a proxy contract which then calls an origial contract. I haven’t worked with proxy contracts yet, but I’ve seen the code and it appeared ...
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Why do we need to use private variable getters inside the same contract?
I recently read a smart contract from Openzepplin with the following code in it
uint256 private certainAmount;
function getCertainAmount() public returns (uint256){
return ...
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Does a proxy contract need to declare state variables?
There is no variable declaration in the proxy contract. Does the returned data from the delegate call auto-generate the variables for the proxy contract?
contract Logic {
uint256 varA;
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Typical flow for generating large set of unique ERC-721 metadata and setting tokenURI
First of all, I have searched around in previous posts and haven't found an answer to this so apologies in advance if this is a duplicate.
I am minting a collection of NFTs via ERC-721 and have the ...
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What are the benefits of using hard coded gas values in smart contract?
I was reading the docs of Arbitrum and found this
hard coded gas values should be adjusted (or better yet, removed entirely if possible (it's probably possible; really now, why are you hard-coding a ...
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First Smart Contract: How to emit exact string data?
So I've written my first smart contract and deployed it onto the Ropsten test network, which is a simple program to write "hello world" into the data field when deployed.
pragma solidity 0.8....
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Can you authenticate a process or an algorithm with a NFT?
In computer-generated-arts, can you authenticate the generating process or algorithm with a NFT, or only the resulting "work of arts" ?
More generally, is it possible to authenticate a ...
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Ownable in upgradeable contracts
I'm trying to get my head around the Ownable role in Upgradeable contracts in open zeppelin.
It seems there have been a lot of updates recently and most tutorials and answers are therefore outdated.
I'...
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Efficiently Accessing Mappings
I'm working on keeping track of data via a struct stored in a mapping.
mapping(uint256 => Session);
Here is the Session struct:
struct Session {
// UID
uint256 id;
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Name has to refer to a struct, enum or contract when compiling on remix
This is betting smart contract, the issue is the user/address need to bet on different matches. The smart contract design only on one mapping value.
Full source code:https://github.com/laronlineworld/...
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How can I validate transaction?
I have question related to transactions. Is is possible to verify transaction by sender and receiver. For example user A want to send money to user B. User A create transaction, digitaly signed. ...
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How to set the ether price for a tokenID with ERC1155?
I'm creating an NFT streaming marketplace for musicians and I think ERC1155 standard contract will work for my use case. Assuming I am the owner and minter of the whole system, and I am minting on ...
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TypeError: Indexed expression has to be a type, mapping or array (is function (uint16) returns (uint256))?
Full source:https://github.com/laronlineworld/bettingMatch/blob/main/bettingMatch.sol
This is a Betting Smart Contract, trying to create a mapping structure that user/wallet_address can bet on ...
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How to apply mapping? Betting on multiple matches using 1 address?
how to change the data structure of playerInfo so that instead of one value for playerInfo[msg.sender].matchSelected, it would have a mapping of values. Also, you need to include resultSelected in the ...
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Creating Structure for mapping of data inside mapping? [duplicate]
you would need to change the data structure of playerInfo so that instead of one value for playerInfo[msg.sender].matchSelected, it would have a mapping of values. Also, you need to include ...
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transfer from one contract to another
// ContractA
function nice(address to) public payable {
require(_to.send(_value), ERROR_SEND_REVERTED);
}
I also have a contractB which was deployed with EIP-1167. Now, The problem is that when ...
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how to add closing and opening function bet per match in soldity?
source code:https://github.com/laronlineworld/bettingMatch/blob/main/bettingMatch.sol
How to open and close bet per match
function bet(uint16 _matchSelected, uint16 _resultSelected) public payable {
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Can someone help me to fix the betting, I can't bet on other game match_id once I bet on a match
Thi is the full smart contract:https://github.com/laronlineworld/betMatch/blob/main/betMatch.sol
This is betting contract, when betting on id_1, the same address can't bet on id_2.
I'm using Game ...
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Real World Application using Smart Contracts
I am trying to build an application using Smart Contracts. I am only able to find tutorials that introduce Solidity and smart contracts (which are helpful though). But I am unable to find a complete ...
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{ "code": -32000, "message": "invalid opcode: opcode 0xfe not defined" }
When distributing prize, this error will show:{ "code": -32000, "message": "invalid opcode: opcode 0xfe not defined" }
full code here:https://github.com/laronlineworld/...
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Minting parent tokens from child contract
Is it possible to mint ERC20 tokens that are created in a parent contract, from a child contract? If so how is it implemented?
Thank you in advance!
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Is it possible to create a vesting contract for NFT?
Creating vesting contract for NFT(erc721)? We have token vesting smart contract, but how about NFT? Can it be vested on a smart contract?
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How to transfer USDT out of a smart contract? [duplicate]
I'm having a trouble trying to solve this task:
I created a very simple smart contract that should call a function in the external smart contract and transfer tokens.
Here's my contract code:
pragma ...
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Betting Smart contract using Token (Bep-20/erc20) instead of ether/bnb?
This is my betting contract using eth/bnb, how can I change eth/bnb to token as their betting payment
https://github.com/laronlineworld/BettingCOD/blob/main/BettingCOD.sol
Code for Betting
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Lock multiple batches of ERC20 tokens for a certain amount of time
I need to build a smart contract where users can lock their ERC20 tokens for a fixed amount of time (same amount of time for all users, e.g. 1 year). Lets say a user locks 100 tokens and half a year ...
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{ "code": -32000, "message": "execution reverted" } For betting Reward distribution
function execution reverted if function is applying
function distibuteRewards() onlyOwner public {
require(bettingActive = false);
bytes32 winningCandidate = candidateList[getWinner()];
/...
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Wierd exploit in auto-liquidity token
i dont know if this is a known exploit or not, but this caught my attention. It seems that address on mainnet is a contract (unverified of course) that takes advantage of a vulnerability somewhere ...
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I accidentally sent token to the currency contract
I accidentally sent token to the currency contract, is it possible to get the tokens back?
Can any expert tell me if the contract has the function?
what is the function?
Contract: ...
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What is best to use - Private Key or Mnemonic?
Is there a best practice for which one to use?
Many tutorials online take various approaches - the older ones seems to use mnemonic whereas the newer ones tends to utilize private key.
I understand ...
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How to enter a uint256[] function input in java script?
I'm trying to interact with my smart contract using java script. My function uses an uint256[] input.
In python the desired input would be input = [1,2]
In java script I tried
const arrayindex ...
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Recording gas usage at a specific point in execution
I apologize if it has already been asked here, but i'm currently building a limit orders contract and i'm trying to do something like that.
function fullfillMaxOrders() public {
while(gasConsumed <=...
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Can I interact with a smart-contract that's a variable inside another smart-contract?
I want to interact with a third party contract.
I can interact with (third party) Smart Contract A.
Inside Smart Contract A's code is
import { contractb } from ".../ContractB.sol";
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Is it common to add comission to the contract for the secondary market?
I looked at Cryptopunks contract and I don't see any royalty going to Larva Labs. Is it normal to add a comission back to me for my generative art project?
I noticed some projects take a set price ...
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Using the return value of a contract function in another function
I have a smart contract A with a public function a1 that can be called by anyone and this public function will return a uint value based on another public function named a2 inside the same contract A.
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How to change the bet of ether into bep-20 token?
The link of Betting Contract:https://github.com/laronlineworld/Voting-Betting-Smart-Contract/blob/main/Voting-Betting-Smart-Contract.sol
How to change the bet ether into token(BEP20)
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Is there a smart contract that rewards someone who has held a token for a certain amount of time with additional tokens?
Basically if someone holds a token for a given time "x" amount then they are rewarded extra tokens? Is there a smart contract that can do this or is it even possible? Thank you.
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Which section should be first? Upstream and downstream sections
Well... I have a problem of starting writing smart contract in with I don't know which part should be written first.
For example we have a game. It has a hero and it has some functions like fighting ...
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Dynamically calling any other contract and function from contract
This gives a contract the same ability to interact with other contracts (with its address as msg.sender), as an externally-owned account, right?
function call(address _contract, bytes calldata ...
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Is it possible to create a vault that will open itself after a countdown (dead man's switch) on blockchain?
I know I can put an encrypted data and a timer in the contract, but what about the key? People can't know the key. It must be only used when the countdown ends, automatically.
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How to return a storage array from a Solidity function?
I wrote a very simple smart-contract where I want to create an external function which returns as an output a storage array which contains the following items [0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18]:
pragma ...
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Can I automatically forward transactions from a given address?
The challenge is to provably promise to transfer a transaction from address X to address Y. Basically, I need to be able to convince Y that if I get the money from X - it's going straight to Y. X is ...
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DeclarationError: Identifier already declared
I'm getting the below compile error message:
DeclarationError: Identifier already declared. --> contracts/coffeeBase/SupplyChain.sol:9:1: | 9 | import "../coffeeAccessControl/ConsumerRole.sol&...
