Automatic MBR caculation for contract creation, box cost allocation, and any other fn related to manual MBR calculations.

[anupa-perera]

Problem

MBR calculation is currently being handled manually by the contract creators. This is a big pain point; if it can be addressed, it will abstract away a major pain point for all the developers utilizing Algorand to deploy contracts.

Solution

Introducing a utility function within the Algokit to automatically calculate the MBR amount so it can be passed through as a parameter to facilitate the payment. Possibly by incorporating simulate to figure out what the MBR cost would be prior to the contract, box creation, etc.

Proposal

Pros and Cons

Dependencies

[SilentRhetoric]

@neilcampbell Thinking about your recent experimentation around abstracting away covering fees for innerTxn calls (coverAppCallInnerTransactionFees), I wonder if this use case of needing to cover MBR could benefit from a similar abstraction provided by AlgorandClient.

Perhaps simulate could surface a deficit in the contract account and add in the requisite Pay txn to fund the account earlier in the atomic group?

[neilcampbell]

@SilentRhetoric It's potentially do-able, however would require some experimentation.

I think there is also some potential here for an app to exploit such a feature.
For example if an app opted in to 1000 assets when it's called, that would trigger a 100 ALGO pay transaction to be attached to the group automatically. The app could then opt out of the assets it doesn't require and the balance is available to spend.