Verify Smart Contract
In this section, you'll verify your counter smart contract to the Rootstock Explorer using Foundry, so the users of you dApp can be able to see the actual code of your contract to analyze that it doesn't have malicious code, and they can also interact with it.
Verify simple contract
After you have deployed your smart contract, you can verify it using Foundry with a simple command.
forge verify-contract \
--chain-id 31 \
--watch \
--compiler-version v0.8.24 \
--verifier custom \
--verifier-url https://be.explorer.testnet.rootstock.io/api/v3/etherscan \
0x499e802a6825d30482582d9b9dd669ba82ba8ba4 \
src/Counter.sol:Counter
The verification will be executed, and you will receive the following response:
Start verifying contract `0x499e802a6825d30482582d9b9dd669ba82ba8ba4` deployed on rsk-testnet
Compiler version: v0.8.28
Optimizations: 0
Submitting verification for [src/Counter.sol:Counter] 0x499e802a6825d30482582d9b9dd669ba82ba8ba4.
Submitted contract for verification:
Response: `OK`
GUID: `72f0b154-6d94-40bc-bf7d-61b3b266ed5b`
URL: https://be.explorer.testnet.rootstock.io/api/v3/etherscan/address/0x499e802a6825d30482582d9b9dd669ba82ba8ba4
Contract verification status:
Response: `NOTOK`
Details: `Pending in queue`
Warning: Verification is still pending...; waiting 15 seconds before trying again (7 tries remaining)
Contract verification status:
Response: `OK`
Details: `Pass - Verified`
Contract successfully verified
Verify with constructor arguments
If your contract has constructor arguments, you must pass them in order to successfully verify it. Foundry accepts the constructor arguments as ABI encoded.
For that, you can use the cast abi-encode foundry tool.
As an example, for a contract that has a constructor argument like constructor(uint256 initialSupply), initialized with the value of 1000 at the contract deploy, you can execute the following command:
cast abi-encode "constructor(uint)" 1000
result:
0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003e8
And, then, you can run the verification command passing the constructor argment as ABI encoded:
forge verify-contract \
--constructor-args 0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003e8
--chain-id 31 \
--watch \
--compiler-version v0.8.24 \
--verifier custom \
--verifier-url https://be.explorer.testnet.rootstock.io/api/v3/etherscan \
0x499e802a6825d30482582d9b9dd669ba82ba8ba4 \
src/Counter.sol:Counter