RSK Truffle Starter Box

This box comes with everything you need to start using Truffle on RSK Blockchain. It includes network configurations for Mainnet, Testnet and the SimpleStorage contract as an example to deploy.

RSK is an open source platform for Ethereum compatible smart contracts based on the Bitcoin network.

Requirements

1. NPM (Node Package Manager)

Node.js and NPM are needed, though both are usually installed at once.

Go to Node.js if you need to install it.

2. Truffle

Install Truffle globally

npm install -g truffle

Installation

1. Create a new folder.

For example, create the folder rsk-starter. Navigate to the folder in the terminal.

mkdir rsk-starter
cd rsk-starter

2. Run the unbox command. This will install all necessary dependencies.

truffle unbox rsksmart/rsk-starter-box

Development console

Truffle has an interactive console that also spawns a development blockchain. This is very useful for compiling, deploying and testing locally.

3. Run the development console.

truffle develop

4. Take a look at the smart contract SimpleStorage.sol. You can check it out in folder contracts.

This smart contract has:

• A variable storedData to store a number
• A function get() to return the number stored at variable storedData
• A function set() to change the number stored at variable storedData

5. Compile and migrate the smart contract. Note inside the development console we don't preface commands with truffle.

compile
migrate

6. Running contract tests.

Our box also comes with the file TestSimpleStorage.js for testing the smart contract. You can check it out in the test folder.

test

NOTE: This box is the starting point for the RSK tutorial Using rsk-starter-box.

Using RSK networks

Truffle makes developing on RSK easier because we can configure custom networks for RSK. The networks are already configured in the truffle-config.js file.

Setup an account & get RBTC

• Get an address using these instructions.
• For the RSK Testnet, get tRBTC from our faucet.
• For the RSK Mainnet, get RBTC from an exchange.

Setup the gas price

Gas is the internal pricing for running a transaction or contract. When you send tokens, interact with a contract, send RBTC, or do anything else on the blockchain, you must pay for that computation. That payment is calculated as gas. In RSK, this is paid in RBTC. The minimumGasPrice is written in the block header by miners and establishes the minimum gas price that a transaction should have in order to be included in that block.

To get the minimumGasPrice do the following steps:

1. Run this query using cURL:

   Mainnet

   curl https://public-node.rsk.co/ \
       -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
       --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getBlockByNumber","params":["latest",false],"id":1}'

   Testnet

   curl https://public-node.testnet.rsk.co/ \
       -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
       --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getBlockByNumber","params":["latest",false],"id":1}'

2. Find in the result the field minimumGasPrice

For more information about the Gas and minimumGasPrice please go here.

Connect to RSK

1. Copy your mnemonic to truffle-config.js

   // truffle-config.json
   
   const HDWalletProvider = require('@truffle/hdwallet-provider');
   
   //Put your mnemonic here, be careful not to deploy your mnemonic into production!
   const mnemonic = 'A_MNEMONIC';

   Please be aware that we are using HDWalletProvider with RSK Networks derivations path:

   • RSK Mainnet dpath: m/44’/137’/0’/0
   • RSK Testnet dpath: m/44’/37310’/0’/0

   For more information check RSKIP57.

2. Check the gas price of the network, and update truffle-config.js if necessary.

3. Run the truffle console for any RSK network.

   # Console for Mainnet
   truffle console --network mainnet
   
   # Console forn Testnet
   truffle console --network testnet

4. Compile and migrate the smart contracts. Note that inside the development console, we don't preface commands with truffle.

   compile
   migrate

5. Another option is to run the below commands directly in the terminal, out of the truffle console.

   truffle compile
   truffle migrate

Next steps

• Go to tutorial

Go to the tutorial Using rsk-starter-box to learn how to interact with SimpleStorage.sol. Also, we covered all the steps with more details, explanations, and images.

• Find more documentation

Check out the RSK developers portal.

• Do you have questions?

Ask in the RSK community Slack.