Publishing a smart contract
Making a smart contract public
Contracts will initially only be accessible by the contract developers, a special role that anyone can opt-in to.
Once the contracts have been deployed and tested, they can be made public by paying a small amount of ACA in order for them to become publicly accessible.
Only the contract's maintainer can publish it, no one else.
The example below uses Mandala as example. For other networks, you will need to switch to different Polkadot App.
- 1.
- 2.Select publishContract(contract) from the method/action dropdown
- 3.Fill in the contract address
- 4.Click Submit Transaction
Developer > Extrinsic > Submission > evm > publishContract(contract)
Trying to interact with an unpublished contract with an account that does not have the developer role will receive an
Error: -32603 with the message: "Internal JSON-RPC error."Polkadot App can be used to verify whether or not the smart contract is published. This can be done using the Chain state viewer:
- 1.Using the Storage tab, select the evm from the select state query dropdown
- 2.Select accounts(H160) from the method/action dropdown
- 3.Fill in the contract address
- 4.Click Submit transaction
Developer > Chain state > Storage > evm > accounts(H160)
The
published value of the response indicates whether the smart contract is published or not.In case your smart contract has a contract factory function, the child smart contracts inherit the publication status of the parent smart contract.
This means that the child smart contracts created using a published smart contract's contract factory are already published and don't need to be published manually.
Keep in mind that the maintainer of a child smart contract is the parent smart contract and not the caller of the transaction that triggered its creation. In case the maintainer role of the smart contract needs to be transferred from the parent smart contract to the caller, the transfer should be implemented in the same call as the creation of the child smart contract. You can do so using the EVM predeployed smart contract.
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