WorkShop Notes: ChainAgnostic Verification Standard Brainstorming

[ligi]

Lead by @kuzdogan from sourcify.dev

Current Sourcify overview:

(SourceCode + parameters) -> [compiler] -> bytecode1
address on chain -> bytecode2
verified if bytecode1 = bytecode2
contains IPFS hash of metadata and solidity version

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Standardize CBOR encoding of metadata in bytecode for other languages? Currently implementation detail of solidity.
Standardize MetaData? So other languages produce compatible metatata so e.g. ABI is accessible to wallets/dapps even if it was written in a different language.
CBOR should have key "language" and value the language instead of currently:

@Serializable
class MetaDataInByteCodeCBOR(
    @ByteString
    val ipfs: ByteArray? = null,
    @ByteString
    val bzzr: ByteArray? = null,
    @ByteString
    val solc: ByteArray
)

to be more open to other languages. Solidity can be special and grandfathered in as a special case.
Then version as another field
2 Suggested CAIPS:

• one for how to extend Bytecode with metadata
• one for how a metadata file looks like (we should go through the current "state of the art" solidity metadata and fix/standardize everything that is not solidity specific like the ABI)

both together can be used for verification.

potential languages:

• soldity
• vyper
• cairo
• fe
• yul?

proposed CBOR:

• metadataURL
• language

(maybe just URL and lang to save on size to deploy)
Maybe we can just use MultiCodec instead of an URL
size here is important as it introduces cost.

[kuzdogan]

Thanks for the notes @ligi !

Here are some additional resources:

• The first half of the workshop was about how Sourcify does the "perfect" verification. For better visuals refer to the slides from the Solidity summit talk.
• Solidity docs on contract metadata.json and metadata encoding.
• Metadata playground: Visual explainer and decoder app for Solidity contract bytecodes
• Article: samczsun's Paradigm CTF challenge I mentioned, that exploits Etherscan's RegEx search of the metadata pattern

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