sol.tty
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What it does
The scripting layer Ethereum was missing. A Solidity implementation of the EVM deployed as an identity contract so you can run any Solidity code just like you could if you had a REPL.
Sol.tty is an easy way to script multiple transaction calls together and send them in a single transaction.
Ideal for saving gas by batching transactions together, writing one-off scripts and codifying specific transaction behavior in a reusable format.
How we built it
There are a couple of steps involved in making this:
- A factory contract that
- Acts as a registry where we map wallet addresses to Identity contracts
- Deploys new identity contracts if needed
- Identity contract that
- Has a full implementation of the EVM (bytecode parsing and OP code evaluation)
- Accepts bytecode and a function selector and passes it to the EVM implementation to be executed
- Use solcjs on the front-end app to compile the snippet into bytecode
- Sending the compiled bytecode to the Identity contract
Challenges we ran into
- Implementing the EVM itself (all of the OP codes) while keeping the gas usage low
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Implementing the EVM inside the EVM
- Our own Stack implementation used by our embedded VM
- The idea of writing an on-chain REPL
What we learned
- Some of the internals of the EVM itself
