Ethereum War Game and CTF Tooling

EthClient

Simple elixir client to interact with the ethereum blockchain, deploying and calling smart contracts.

Requirements

Erlang/OTP 24
Elixir 1.13.0
Rust 1.58.0
Geth

Quick Start with Tilt

"I just want to try it right now!!"

Run the following commands to get started. This will configure and start both Ethereum nodes, the Livebook server and the EthClient Elixir application.

git clone git@github.com:lambdaclass/ethereum_war_game_tooling.git
cd ethereum_war_game_tooling
tilt up

Now that you have everything ready you can start playing with the tool in one of two ways.

Livebook

Accesing to the Application running at http://localhost:8080 and creating a new notebook.

Elixir IEx terminal

cd eth_client
make tilt.up

Configuration

All global configuration is kept in the EthClient.Context module, which holds the following values:

rpc_host: The hostname needed to interact with the ethereum Json RPC API. This can be an infura-type url or just the hostname of an actual node.
chain_id: The id of the chain currently in use (1 for mainnet, 4 for Rinkeby, etc).
user_account: A value of type EthClient.Account, which holds two fields, address and private_key. This is the account used to sign and send all transactions.
contract: A value of type EthClient.Contract, which holds two fields, address and functions.

You can change any of these config values at runtime by using the functions exposed by the EthClient.Context module.

The default config assumes you're running the local ethereum network this repo provides.

If you want to use infura-type host this are the setps you must follow:

First set your infura api key

Context.set_infura_api_key("your_infura_api_key")

Then set the your etherscan api key

Context.set_etherscan_api_key("your_eth_scan_api_key")

And finally set the name of the chain you want to use, for now this are the supported chains: eht mainnet, rinkeby and ropsten.

EthClient.set_chain("chain_name")

Interacting with smart contracts

Without an ABI file

Currently there are three functions in the EthClient module that form the main API:

EthClient.deploy(bin_path) deploys a compiled smart contract given a path to its .bin file, generated by compiling said contract (i.e. by running something like solc --bin contract.sol). After a successful deployment, the context will be updated to use it.
EthClient.call(method, arguments) calls any read-only public method of a contract.
EthClient.invoke(method, arguments, amount) calls any public method of a contract that requires a transaction (usually to write stuff to the blockchain). The amount parameter controls how much eth is sent to the contract.

With an ABI file

When there is an .abi file with the ABI of the contract, user can interact with API in a different way:

EthClient.deploy(bin_path, abi_path) deploys a compiled smart contract (as it is explained in Without an ABI file section) but it also add contract functions to the context when deploying it.
Then, user can interact with contract functions by calling Context.contract.functions.contract_function_name.(parameters), either if it is a read-only method or not.

Example

When running iex -S mix, there will be a default bin_path variable loaded with the path to a compiled Storage contract and a default abi_path variable with the path to contract's ABI. You can then immediately deploy it with

EthClient.deploy(bin_path)

and then call each of its functions. If you're running the local ethereum network, you should see something like the following:

iex(1)> EthClient.deploy(bin_path)
19:53:26.918 [info]  Deployment transaction accepted by the network, tx_hash: 0x14765466533a85c90ce45dd966854dc5fb95543ba97f343f389872c64ed9597b
19:53:26.922 [info]  Waiting for confirmation...
19:53:28.931 [info]  Contract deployed, address: 0x69148897094941cfad7fd3d52c5e1a810ba4e123 Current contract updated
:ok

iex(2)> EthClient.call("test_function()", [])
{:ok, "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001"}

iex(3)> EthClient.invoke("store(uint256)", [20], 0)
19:55:28.127 [info]  Transaction accepted by the network, tx_hash: 0x137320dcfb61055313f73aafa799670a4d172936bc91200ebf7a95092f77c297
19:55:28.127 [info]  Waiting for confirmation...
19:55:41.177 [info]  Transaction confirmed!
{:ok, "0x137320dcfb61055313f73aafa799670a4d172936bc91200ebf7a95092f77c297"}

iex(4)> EthClient.call("retrieve()", [])
{:ok, "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000014"}

Local nodes

Install dependencies with

make init

then source your .bashrc, .zshrc or similar files to add foundry to your PATH, then run foundryup to install forge and cast.

To run two local Ethereum nodes:

cd geth_nodes
make setup
make up

Accounts

You can use the miner accounts to pay for transactions.

Node 1 miner account

Address: 0xafb72ccaeb7e22c8a7640f605824b0898424b3da
Private key: e90d75baafee04b3d9941bd8d76abe799b391aec596515dee11a9bd55f05709c

Node 2 miner account:

Address: 0x77b648683cde1d69544ed6f4f7204e8d51c324db
Private key: f71d3dd32649f9bdfc8e4a5232d3f245860243756f96fbe070c31fc44c9293f4

Test contract

You can then deploy the test contract with

make deploy_test_contract

under the root directory.

The code for this contract is in contracts/src/Storage.sol; it has 3 functions: test_function will always return 1, store(uint256) stores the given number and retrieve() returns said number.

The output should look like this

forge create --rpc-url http://127.0.0.1:8545 Storage --root contracts/ --private-key df57089febbacf7ba0bc227dafbffa9fc08a93fdc68e1e42411a14efcf23656e
compiling...
Compiling 1 files with 0.8.10
Compilation finished successfully
Compiler run successful
success.
Deployer: 0x8626f6940e2eb28930efb4cef49b2d1f2c9c1199
Deployed to: 0xb581c9264f59bf0289fa76d61b2d0746dce3c30d
Transaction hash: 0xe2c19a2f0766c0e00c416433a8cf53c9993fc918e2b321f348d8de421c195416

Take note of the address you are given after Deployed to:, as that is the contract's address in the local chain. With it, you can now call its test function using cast like this:

cast call <contract_address> "test_function()(uint256)" --rpc-url http://localhost:8545

which should return 1.

You can also send a transaction to call the store function

cast send <contract_address> --private-key <private_key> "store(uint256)" 5 --rpc-url http://localhost:8545

where the private key needs to have some funds to pay for the transaction (for this you can use one of the miner accounts). Output should look like this

blockHash            "0xd2f9afae4ef28c63ceccd7575c4370c17ead74448567ca651ec82a7051434e01"
blockNumber          "0x5"
contractAddress      null
cumulativeGasUsed    "0x6746"
effectiveGasPrice    "0xd1790ced"
gasUsed              "0x6746"
logs                 []
logsBloom            "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
root                 null
status               "0x1"
transactionHash      "0x0bc2448d1f7ee4be24bae1201e687d937d5f094af5e64f09ca0b279d62bf0b81"
transactionIndex     "0x0"
type                 "0x2"

After storing a number, you can retrieve it with

cast call <contract_address> "retrieve()(uint256)" --rpc-url http://localhost:8545

Code

Apart from EthClient calls, other modules can be called.

RPC module handles RPC calls to the node.
ABI module is a helper used to get the ABI of the desired contract, either calling to etherscan or locally.
The Contract module uses the ABI module to generate elixir functions that invoke/call the said methods in the contract.
The Account module defines a struct for accounts
The Context module saves the current context, ie. contract ABI and address, and is updated as used. It is maintained with a Supervisor process.
The RawTransaction module handles encoding of transactions for sending. (via RPC module)
The Application module handles environment