Autonolas Registries

Introduction

This repository contains the Autonolas component / agent / service registries part of the on-chain protocol.

Autonolas registries provide the functionality to mint agent components and canonical agents via the ERC721 standard. It stores instances associated with components and agents, supplies a set of read-only functions to inquire the state of entities.

The registries also provide the capability of creating services that are based on canonical agents. Each service instance bears a set of canonical agent Ids it is composed of with the number of agent instances for each Id. For the service deployment operators supply agent instances to a specific service via registration. Once all the required agent instances are provided by operators, the service can be deployed forming a multisig contract governed by a group of agent instances.

In order to generalize components / agents / services, they are referred sometimes as units.

A graphical overview of the whole on-chain architecture is available here:

An overview of the design, details on how securing services with ETH or a custom ERC20 token, how service owners can opt for a set of authorized operators, as well as how DAOs can manage their autonomous services are provided here.

We have a core periphery architecture for both the components/agents and services. The core contracts are ERC721s primarily accessed via the peripheral manager contracts.

An overview of the state machine governing service management and usage is provided here.

A more detailed set of registries definitions are provided here.

An overview of the registries contracts related to staking can be found here. Details on Olas staking are provided here.

• Abstract contracts:

  • GenericRegistry
  • UnitRegistry
  • GenericManager
  • ServiceStakingBase.sol

• Core contracts:

  • AgentRegistry
  • ComponentRegistry
  • ServiceRegistry L1 L2
  • ServiceRegistryTokenUtility

• Periphery contracts:

  • RegistriesManager
  • ServiceManager
  • ServiceManagerToken

• Utility contracts:

  • OperatorSignedHashes
  • OperatorWhitelist

• Staking related contracts:

  • StakingBase.sol
  • StakingNativeToken.sol
  • StakingToken.sol
  • StakingFactory.sol
  • StakingProxy.sol
  • StakingVerifier.sol
  • StakingActivityChecker.sol

In order to deploy a service, its registered agent instances form a consensus mechanism via the means of multisigs using the generic multisig interface. One of the most well-known multisigs is Gnosis Safe. The Gnosis interface implementation of a generic multisig interface is provided here:

• GnosisSafeMultisig

Another multisig implementation allows to upgrade / downgrade the number of agent instances that govern the same Gnosis Safe multisig instance between different service re-deployments. Please note that the initial multisig instance must already exist from a previous service deployment. In order to use that option, registered agent instances forming a consensus are required to return the multisig instance ownership to the service owner. Then, the service owner must terminate the service, update the number of desired agent instances and move it into a new active-registration state. Once all agent instances are registered, the service owner re-deploys the service by giving up their ownership of the multisig with registered agent instances and by setting a new multisig instance threshold. The implementation of such multisig is provided here:

• GnosisSafeSameAddressMultisig

To verify the multisig data when redeploying the service using the GnosisSafeSameAddressMultisig contract while changing service multisig owners (with updated agent instance addresses), see the guidelines and corresponding scripts here

As more multisigs come into play, their underlying implementation of the generic multisig will be added.

Development

Prerequisites

• This repository follows the standard Hardhat development process.
• The code is written on Solidity starting from version 0.8.15.
• The standard versions of Node.js along with Yarn are required to proceed further (confirmed to work with Yarn 1.22.19 and npx/npm 10.1.0 and node v18.17.0).

Install the dependencies

The project has submodules to get the dependencies. Make sure you run git clone --recursive or init the submodules yourself. The dependency list is managed by the package.json file, and the setup parameters are stored in the hardhat.config.js file. Simply run the following command to install the project:

yarn install

Core components

The contracts, deployment scripts and tests are located in the following folders respectively:

contracts
scripts
test

Compile the code and run

Compile the code:

npx hardhat compile

Run the tests:

npx hardhat test

Run tests with forge:

forge test --hh -vvv

Test with instrumented code

Scribble annotated contracts are located in https://github.com/valory-xyz/autonolas-registries/blob/main/contracts/scribble.

Install Scribble in order to instrument the code:

npm install -g eth-scribble

Arm (instrument) the code, run tests and disarm the code:

scribble contracts/scribble/ServiceRegistryAnnotated.sol --output-mode files --arm
npx hardhat test
scribble contracts/scribble/ServiceRegistryAnnotated.sol --disarm

Alternatively, run a simple scribble script:

./scripts/scribble.sh scribble/ServiceRegistryAnnotated.sol

Docker image

docker build . -t valory/autonolas-registries

docker run -it -d -p 8545:8545 --name chain valory/autonolas-registries

Linters

• ESLint is used for JS code.
• solhint is used for Solidity linting.

Github Workflows

The PR process is managed by github workflows, where the code undergoes several steps in order to be verified. Those include:

• code installation
• running linters
• running tests

Deployment

The deployment of contracts to the test- and main-net is split into step-by-step series of scripts for more control and checkpoint convenience. The description of deployment procedure can be found here: deployment.

The finalized contract ABIs for deployment and their number of optimization passes are located here: ABIs. Each folder there contains contracts compiled with the solidity version before their deployment.

For testing purposes, the hardhat node deployment script is located here.

If you want to use custom contracts in the registry image, read here.

Audits

The audit is provided as development matures. The latest audit report can be found here: audits. A list of known vulnerabilities can be found here: Vulnerabilities list

Deployed Protocol

The list of contract addresses for different chains and their full contract configuration can be found here.

In order to test the protocol setup on all the deployed chains, the audit script is implemented. Make sure to export required API keys for corresponding chains (see the script for more information). The audit script can be run as follows:

node scripts/audit_chains/audit_contracts_setup.js

Mainnet snapshot of registries

In order to get the current snapshot of all the registries, the following script is provided here. The script can be run with the following command:

npx hardhat run scripts/mainnet_snapshot.js --network mainnet

Please note that for the correct mainnet interaction the ALCHEMY_API_KEY needs to be exported as an environment variable.

NOTE: whilst the snapshot does maintain the exact dependency structure between components, agents and services, it does not conserve the ownership structure.

Protocol-owned-services

A specific service can be owned by a DAO-governed protocol. In order to construct a DAO proposal for the service (re-)deployment, the following step-by-step guide is advised to be observed here.

Integrations on non-EVM blockchains

Solana

The light protocol with a similar functionality to ServiceRegistryL2 is implemented as part of the Solana integration network. The ServiceRegistrySolana program is developed here.

Acknowledgements

The registries contracts were inspired and based on the following sources:

• Rari-Capital. Last known audited version: a9e3ea26a2dc73bfa87f0cb189687d029028e0c5;
• Safe Ecosystem. Last known audited version: c19d65f4bc215d18a137dc4d787873d99333c4d5;
• OpenZeppelin.