Unit 20 - "Joint Savings Account"

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Background

A fintech startup company has recently hired you. This company is disrupting the finance industry with its own cross-border, Ethereum-compatible blockchain that connects financial institutions. Currently, the team is building smart contracts to automate many of the institutions’ financial processes and features, such as hosting joint savings accounts.

To automate the creation of joint savings accounts, you’ll create a Solidity smart contract that accepts two user addresses. These addresses will be able to control a joint savings account. Your smart contract will use ether management functions to implement a financial institution’s requirements for providing the features of the joint savings account. These features will consist of the ability to deposit and withdraw funds from the account.

What You're Creating

  • The completed Solidity JointSavings smart contract.

  • A folder named Execution_Results that contains at least eight images. These images should confirm that the deposit and withdrawal transactions, which are designed to test the JointSavings functionality in the JavaScript VM, worked as expected.

Instructions

The steps for this homework are divided into the following sections:

  1. Create a Joint Savings Account Contract in Solidity

  2. Compile and Deploy Your Contract in the JavaScript VM

  3. Interact with Your Deployed Smart Contract

Step 1: Create a Joint Savings Account Contract in Solidity

  1. From the provided starter code, open the Solidity file named joint_savings.sol in the Remix IDE.

  2. Define a new contract named JointSavings.

  3. Define the following variables in the new contract:

    • Two variables of type address payable named accountOne and accountTwo

    • A variable of type address public named lastToWithdraw

    • Two variables of type uint public named lastWithdrawAmount and contractBalance

  4. Define a function named withdraw that accepts two arguments: amount of type uint and recipient of type payable address. In this function, code the following:

    • Define a require statement that checks if recipient is equal to either accountOne or accountTwo. If it isn’t, the require statement returns the “You don't own this account!” text.

    • Define a require statement that checks if balance is sufficient for accomplishing the withdrawal operation. If there are insufficient funds, it returns the “Insufficient funds!” text.

    • Add an if statement to check if lastToWithdraw is not equal (!=) to recipient. If it’s not equal, set it to the current value of recipient.

    • Call the transfer function of the recipient, and pass it the amount to transfer as an argument.

    • Set lastWithdrawAmount equal to amount.

    • Set the contractBalance variable equal to the balance of the contract by using address(this).balance to reflect the new balance of the contract.

  5. Define a public payable function named deposit. In this function, code the following:

    • Set the contractBalance variable equal to the balance of the contract by using address(this).balance.
  6. Define a public function named setAccounts that takes two address payable arguments, named account1 and account2. In the body of the function, set the values of accountOne and accountTwo to account1 and account2, respectively.

  7. Add a fallback function so that your contract can store ether that’s sent from outside the deposit function.

Step 2: Compile and Deploy Your Contract in the JavaScript VM

  1. Compile your smart contract. If an error occurs, review your code, and make the necessary changes for a successful compilation.

  2. In the Remix IDE, navigate to the “Deploy & Run Transactions” pane, and then make sure that “JavaScript VM” is selected as the environment.

  3. Click the Deploy button to deploy your smart contract, and then confirm that it successfully deployed.

Step 3: Interact with Your Deployed Smart Contract

Now that your contract is deployed, it’s time to test its functionality! After each step, capture a screenshot of the execution, and then save it in a folder named Execution_Results. You’ll share this folder with your final submission.

To interact with your deployed smart contract, complete the following steps:

  1. Use the setAccounts function to define the authorized Ethereum address that will be able to withdraw funds from your contract.

    Note You can either use the following Ethereum addresses or create new, dummy addresses on the Vanity-ETH website, which includes an Ethereum vanity address generator.

    Dummy account1 address: 0x0c0669Cd5e60a6F4b8ce437E4a4A007093D368Cb
    Dummy account2 address: 0x7A1f3dFAa0a4a19844B606CD6e91d693083B12c0
    
  2. Test the deposit functionality of your smart contract by sending the following amounts of ether. After each transaction, use the contractBalance function to verify that the funds were added to your contract:

    • Transaction 1: Send 1 ether as wei.

    • Transaction 2: Send 10 ether as wei.

    • Transaction 3: Send 5 ether.

    Note Remembering how to convert ether to wei and vice versa can be challenging. So, you can use a website like Ethereum Unit Converter to ease doing the conversion.

  3. Once you’ve successfully deposited funds into your contract, test the contract’s withdrawal functionality by withdrawing 5 ether into accountOne and 10 ether into accountTwo. After each transaction, use the contractBalance function to verify that the funds were withdrawn from your contract. Also, use the lastToWithdraw and lastWithdrawAmount functions to verify that the address and amount were correct.


Submission

  • Upload the files for this assignment to your GitHub repository.

  • Submit the link to your GitHub repo on Bootcamp Spot.


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