NEAR Accounts controlled by Ethereum signatures

This is a minimal no-std contract that can be deployed to a NEAR account and allows an Ethereum keypair to control it via signing payloads.

Detail on User Flows

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qcYWr6THYY9wibZNTxPhzjb1_aKaNIUL0l1cU9fuYu0/edit?usp=sharing

Live Examples

React app (from this repo) to create and connect account: https://neardefi.github.io/neth

GuestBook app with wallet-selector + MetaMask support: https://neardefi.github.io/guest-book-wallet-selector/

Audit

The NETH contract has been audited by Otter Sec. Check out the audit here: https://neth.app/audit.pdf

Dependencies

The tests and examples are using ethers.js

Running Tests

yarn && yarn test-build

If you need a new dev account: yarn test-deploy

See: test/contract.test.js for details on how to deploy and call the contract from a client.

Running Sample Client App

yarn && yarn start

The client app should open.

1. Choose an ethereum account
2. Choose a NEAR account ID (testnet)
3. (open console) Follow the deployment steps
4. Should receive alert
5. (optional) Check account will run checks making sure connection was successful, if not it will complete steps
6. Final step removes full access key for unlimited allowance access key for execute on contract
7. Try sign in/out and test transaction

Initialization

setup()

• 1 argument
• address is the hex encoded Ethereum address WITH 0x

It will store address and a nonce (default 0) to protect against tx replay.

Transactions

execute()

• 2 arguments
• sig is the hex encoded flat sig of the msg argument
• msg is stringified JSON of the TX request (https://github.com/near/core-contracts/tree/master/multisig#request)

msg payload

ALL ARGUMENTS ARE STRINGS

There are no ints or numbers used in the msg payload!

note: args for FunctionCall are hex encoded, WITH 0x

e.g.

const obj2hex = (obj) => ethers.utils.hexlify(new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(obj)))
...
nonce: 42
transactions: [
	{
		receiver_id: 'testnet',
		actions: [
			{
				type: 'FunctionCall',
				method_name: 'create_account',
				args: obj2hex({
					new_account_id: 'meow-' + Date.now() + '.testnet',
					new_public_key: publicKey,
				}),
				amount: parseNearAmount('0.02'),
				gas: '100000000000000',
			},
		]
	}
]
...
// "args":"0x7b226e65775f6163636f756e745f6964223a226d656f772d313634363433393030363738312e746573746e6574222c226e65775f7075626c69635f6b6579223a22656432353531393a327677456d413535376a586352576a6771314c393252435244756d4d36474359705567414e62793867534433227d"

Actions

There are 5 types of actions:

1. Transfer
2. AddKey
3. DeleteKey
4. FunctionCall
5. DeployContract

They can be batched in a json array, but there can only be 1 receiver_id for all actions.

For details on how to call them, see: test/contract.test.js

AddKey, DeleteKey, FunctionCall

The NEAR public_key and args arguments must be hex encoded WITHOUT 0x

e.g. for public key it's hex 64 length string (32 bytes)

Example:

nonce: 42
transactions: [
	{
		receiver_id: 'someaccount.testnet',
		actions: [
			...,
			{
				type: 'DeleteKey',
				public_key: '1caccbcbb9850c9d4a0d4a1888b346f5584cc1f6347472b107138f08de34e1c6',
			},
			{
				type: 'FunctionCall',
				args: 'd4a1888b346f5584cc1f6347472b107138f01caccbcbb9850c9d4a0d4a1888b346f5584cc1f6347472b107138f08de34e1c66347472b107138',
				...,
			},
			...,
		]
	}
]

AddKey Special Case for Full Access Key

In order to add back a full access key to the account, the client specifies an allowance of 0.

Normally, for unlimited access key, a null allowance is used. An allowance of 0 means the key is useless.

We take this allowance 0 as a special flag meaning this key should be a full access key and add one to the account.

Contract:

// special case: allowance 0 means full access key, user would never want to add key with 0 allowance
let allowance = get_u128(action, "allowance\":\"");
if allowance == 0 {
	unsafe {
		near_sys::promise_batch_action_add_key_with_full_access(
			id,
			public_key.len() as u64,
			public_key.as_ptr() as u64,
			0,
		)
	};
	return;
}

View Methods

• get_address returns the ethereum address for this account WITH 0x
• get_nonce returns the nonce to use for the next TX PADDED HEX ENCODING

Parsing get_nonce response for TXs

Take the base16 int of get_nonce result and stringify it for usage.

const nonce = parseInt(await account.viewFunction(
	accountId,
	'get_nonce'
), 16).toString();

Utilities

parse.rs includes rudimentary string parsing for the msg arg. sys.rs handles the near-sys method definitions, storage and register ops. owner.rs is where the signature is recovered and predecessor checked.

Signatures

Follows: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-712.md

Client side using ethers.js:

export const ethSignJson = async (signer, json) => {
	const types = {
		Transaction: []
	}
	Object.entries(json).forEach(([k, v]) => {
		types.Transaction.push({
			type: 'string',
			name: k,
		})
	})
	if (json.actions) json.actions = JSON.stringify(json.actions)

	const sig = await signer._signTypedData(domain, types, json);

	return sig
};

Contract:

// construct the message from the original JSON pieces, then hash it
let mut msg_wrapped = Vec::from(DOMAIN_HASH);
let mut values = Vec::from(TX_TYPE_HASH);
values.extend_from_slice(&hash(&nonce_msg_str));
values.extend_from_slice(&hash(&transactions));
msg_wrapped.extend_from_slice(&hash(&values));
let msg_hash = hash(&msg_wrapped);

// then ecrecover with signature