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Deploy and Verify smart contracts using Hardhat

#hardhat #etherscan #openzeppelin #verify

For this tutorial we are going to deploy 3 smart contracts:

  1. basic contract
  2. erc20 contract
  3. erc721 contract

Setup project

Install hardhat 

npm init -y     
npm install hardhat
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start hardhat project

  1. Start project with npx hardhat.
  2. Choose 'Create a basic sample project' from options
  3. Download dependencies asked for download, if you missed them, then download them by running npm install @nomiclabs/hardhat-waffle ethereum-waffle chai @nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers ethers

Add contracts to deploy

Inside contracts directory put the the contracts you want to deploy.
I am putting 3 contracts as:

1. Basic contract (contracts/Greeter.sol) 

//SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.0;

import "hardhat/console.sol";

contract Greeter {
    string private greeting;

    constructor(string memory _greeting) {
        console.log("Deploying a Greeter with greeting:", _greeting);
        greeting = _greeting;
    }

    function greet() public view returns (string memory) {
        return greeting;
    }

    function setGreeting(string memory _greeting) public {
        greeting = _greeting;
    }
}
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2. erc20 contract (contracts/PopatToken.sol) 

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.2;

import "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol";
import "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/extensions/ERC20Burnable.sol";
import "@openzeppelin/contracts/access/Ownable.sol";

contract Popat is ERC20, ERC20Burnable, Ownable {
    constructor() ERC20("Popat", "PT") {}

    function mint(address to, uint256 amount) public onlyOwner {
        _mint(to, amount);
    }
}
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As we are importing openzepplin files in our contract, hence we are going to install the OpenZepplin npm package in our project as:

npm install @openzeppelin/contracts
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3. erc721 contract (contract/PikachuNFT.sol) 

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.2;

import "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC721/ERC721.sol";
import "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC721/extensions/ERC721Burnable.sol";
import "@openzeppelin/contracts/access/Ownable.sol";
import "@openzeppelin/contracts/utils/Counters.sol";

contract Pikachu is ERC721, ERC721Burnable, Ownable {
    using Counters for Counters.Counter;

    Counters.Counter private _tokenIdCounter;

    constructor() ERC721("Pikachu", "PK") {}

    function safeMint(address to) public onlyOwner {
        _safeMint(to, _tokenIdCounter.current());
        _tokenIdCounter.increment();
    }
}
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Modify hardhat configuration (hardhat.confi.js):

1. Configure solidity versions

Hardhat supports projects that use different, incompatible versions of solc. You can configure Hardhat to use compiler versions compatible with those files like this:

module.exports = {
  solidity: {
    compilers: [
      {
        version: "0.8.4",
      },
      {
        version: "0.6.7",
      }
    ]
  }
}
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This setup means that a file with a pragma solidity ^0.8.0, ^0.8.1, ..., ^0.8.4 will be compiled with solc 0.8.4 and a file with a pragma solidity ^0.6.0, ..., ^0.6.7 will be compiled with solc 0.6.7

2. Define network configuration 

module.exports = {
defaultNetwork: 'rinkeby',
  networks: {
    rinkeby: {
      url: // NETWORK_ENDPOINT_RINKEBY,
      accounts: // [ACCOUNT_0_PRIVATE_KEY, ACCOUNT_1_PRIVATE_KEY]
    }
    namedAccounts: {
      account0: 0,
      account1: 1
    }
  }
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In each network you define, put node-endpoint-url through which you are going to connect with the network as the value of url field, the most popular endpoint provider is: https://infura.io/
Get the private keys of the accounts from which you want to deploy the contract and put them as array as value of accounts field
In namedAccounts field, you have to define name of account, which you will use while writing deploy code. Value of each account-name is the index-of-account's private-key inside <network-name>.accounts: [] array

3. Define ethereum-api key 

module.exports = {
  solidity: {
  etherscan: {
    apiKey: // ETHERSCAN_API_KEY
  }
}
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4. Import npm packages required in config file 

require("@nomiclabs/hardhat-waffle");
require('hardhat-deploy');
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The final configuration file on is look like this:

// hardhat.config.js
require("@nomiclabs/hardhat-waffle");
require('hardhat-deploy');
require('dotenv').config()

module.exports = {
  solidity: {
    compilers: [
      {
        version: "0.8.4"
      }
    ]
  },
  defaultNetwork: 'rinkeby',
  networks: {
    rinkeby: {
      url: process.env.NETWORK_ENDPOINT_RINKEBY,
      accounts: [process.env.ACCOUNT_0_PRIVATE_KEY, process.env.ACCOUNT_1_PRIVATE_KEY]
    }
  },
  namedAccounts: {
    account0: 0,
    account1: 1
  },
  etherscan: {
    apiKey: process.env.ETHERSCAN_API_KEY
  }
};
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You have to install dotenv package to use environment variables as used in above file, else you can also put values directly if your repository is not public.

Deploy Contracts

Install hardhat-deploy plugin as npm install hardhat-deploy and import it inside 'hardhat.config.js' file as:

require('hardhat-deploy')
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Put all deploy scripts under 'deploy' folder so deploy-plugin can detect and execute them

1. Deploy script for Basic contract 

// deploy/0_greeter.js
module.exports = async ({getNamedAccounts, deployments}) => {
    const {deploy} = deployments;
    const {account0, account1} = await getNamedAccounts();

    await deploy('Greeter', {
      from: account0,
      args: ['Mahesh is Learning HardHat!'],
      log: true,
    });
  };
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2. Deploy script for erc20 cotract 

// deploy/1_popatToken.js
module.exports = async({getNamedAccounts, deployments}) => {
    const { deploy } = deployments
    const { account0 } = await getNamedAccounts()
    await deploy('Popat', {
        from: account0,
        args: [],
        log: true
    })
}
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3. Deploy script for erc721 contract 

// deploy/2_pikchuNFT.js
module.exports = async ({deployments, getNamedAccounts}) => {
    const {deploy} = deployments
    const {account0} = await getNamedAccounts()
    await deploy('Pikachu', {
        from: account0,
        args: [],
        log: true
    })
}
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As you can see deploy scripts are same for all type of cotracts, the deploy scripts finds the contract by looking at the name of cotract defined inside .sol file.
E.g. In Greeter.sol file we defined contract name as contract Greeter {, hence we are using that same contract name inside deploy script as await deploy('Greeter', {

Now, we are ready for the deployment and verification 👍

Deploy contracts

npx hardhat deploy    # deploy contracts to defaulNetwork
# OR
npx hardhat --network rinkeby deploy   # deploy contrats to a specific network
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Vefify Contracts 

npx hardhat etherscan-verify
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You can see the progress and contract-addresses in the console when you execute above deploy and vefication commands.

My simple tutorial ends here. Happy Coding ! 😊

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