Same Address Cross Chain

Keep track of the same contracts cross chain easily

Having contracts deployed at the same address cross chain makes it very easy to find contracts for:

-users who want to quickly find the same contracts on other chains
-developers maintaining the same contracts across different chains

Simple deployment with the same address cross chain

Simple methods:

-a new wallet (nonce = 0 for all chains)
-a wallet used for deploying contracts with the same cross chain nonce values

Caution

Using the same wallet again will require you to keep track of nonce values cross chain.

Alchemy recommends using a Hardhat nonce query script to quickly check a wallet's nonce values cross chain:

Create a Hardhat task to query the nonce

How are smart contract addresses determined?

Smart contracts deployment addresses can be created with either opcodes:

CREATE

or

CREATE2

How does CREATE determine smart contract addresses?

CREATE deployment addresses depend on the sender's:

-address
-nonce

How does CREATE2 determine smart contract addresses?

CREATE2 deployment addresses depend on:

-sender address (CREATE2 Factory is the sender in this context to execute the CREATE2 opcode)
-salt
-byteCode [creationCode since constructor input arguments can change the byteCode value]

For more info on the CREATE2 opcode:

EIP-1014: Skinny CREATE2

Can you deploy a contract to the same address twice?

Yes (for some contracts).

Do the following steps:

1. Create a contract with SELFDESTRUCT in a function only the owner can access to keep the contract secure.

WARNING

Calling SELFDESTRUCT will delete all data in a contract! Be very careful using it. Goerli supports SELFDESTRUCT while Shardeum currently does not. SELFDESTRUCT might also be deprecated with EIP-4758: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4758.

2. Deploy a contract using a CREATE2 Factory.

Caution

Remember this CREATE2 Factory address and the salt you used for the contract byteCode deployed.

3. Once the contract is deployed from the CREATE2 Factory, call SELFDESTRUCT.

WARNING

If you skip this step 3, you will see the following error on the Shardeum explorer:

create collision

since there is a contract at that address that hasn't been destroyed yet.

4. Use the same CREATE2 Factory contract at the same address to deploy the contract with the same byteCode and salt.

Doing this will kill a contract at an address, then bring it back to life at the same address.

Examples:

Contract deployed with CREATE that did a SELFDESTRUCT

Contract as a CREATE2 Factory

Contract that was deployed with CREATE2, then called SELFDESTRUCT, then was brought back to life with the above CREATE2 Factory

CREATE2 General Factory

This factory is useful for:

-saving gas:
    -factory can be used for other contracts since it takes raw creationCode
    -constructors cannot be payable (callvalue() [msg.value in assembly] set to 0, saves gas)
    -constructors cannot have arguments (memory variables not used saves gas)
-creationCode == runtimeCode, since there are no constructor arguments changing the byteCode

Solidity

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity 0.8.17;

error notOwner();

contract ContractToDeployMetamask { //Bytecode matches creation code with no constructor input arguments. Bytecode with tutorial address 0xc1202e7d42655F23097476f6D48006fE56d38d4f:
                                    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
    uint public storageSlot0;
    address public immutable Owner;

    constructor() { // Put your address as Owner instead of msg.sender because msg.sender will be another contract with CREATE2 salt deploy.
        Owner = 0xc1202e7d42655F23097476f6D48006fE56d38d4f; // Metamask address for tutorial.
    }                                                       // Do not do tx.origin because someone can front run you during contract creation!

    function changeValue(uint updateStorageSlot) public {
        storageSlot0 = updateStorageSlot;
    }

    function killThisContract() public { //After a contract is killed at an address, you can deploy another contract at that address.
        if(msg.sender != Owner) { revert notOwner(); }
        selfdestruct(payable(Owner)); //Deletes all data from this contract address. Address inside selfdestruct call gets all ether in the contract self destructing.
    }                                

}

contract Create2Factory {

    event create2Event(address deployedAddressEvent);

    function generalDeployCreate2(uint _salt, bytes memory creationCode) public { // BYTECODE NEEDS TO HAVE "0X" PREFIX TO BUILD RLP!
        address deployedAddress;     // Salt example:         0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
        assembly {                   // Another salt example: 0x123456789abcdef0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
            deployedAddress := create2(0, add(creationCode, 0x20), mload(creationCode), _salt) //callvalue() is the same as msg.value in assembly. callvalue() == 0 to save gas since the constructor and this create2 function are not payable.
            if iszero(extcodesize(deployedAddress)) { //Note: constructor is not payable and takes no input variables (hardcoded in) to keep the creation code simple for this example.
                revert(0, 0)                           
            }
        }
        emit create2Event(deployedAddress);
    }

    function generalPrecomputeAddress(uint _salt, bytes memory creationCode) public view returns (address) { // BYTECODE NEEDS TO HAVE "0X" PREFIX TO BUILD RLP!
        bytes32 hash = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(bytes1(0xff), address(this), _salt, keccak256(creationCode)));
        return address(uint160(uint(hash)));
    }

}

CREATE2 No Bytecode Function Input

This factory is useful for:

-building creationCode directly inside CREATE2 Factory functions with constructor argument values
-keeping contract deployment simple without needing to deploy other contracts with general byteCode

Solidity

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity 0.8.17;

error notOwner();

contract ContractToDeploy {

    uint public storageSlot0;
    address public immutable Owner;

    constructor(address inputAddress) payable {
        Owner = inputAddress; //Need to put address as input instead of msg.sender because msg.sender will be another contract with CREATE2 salt deploy.
    }

    function changeValue(uint updateStorageSlot) public {
        storageSlot0 = updateStorageSlot;
    }

    function killThisContract() public { //After a contract is killed at an address, you can deploy another contract at that address.
        if(msg.sender != Owner) { revert notOwner(); }
        selfdestruct(payable(Owner)); //Deletes all data from this contract.
    }

}

contract Create2Factory { //Modified from: "Create2 | Solidity 0.8" by  Smart Contract Programmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=883-koWrsO4&ab_channel=SmartContractProgrammer

    event create2Event(address deployedAddressEvent);

    function create2DeployContract(bytes32 _salt, address ownerAddress) public payable {                              // Salt example:  0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
        ContractToDeploy deployedAddress = new ContractToDeploy {value: msg.value, salt: _salt}(ownerAddress); // Another salt example: 0x123456789abcdef0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
        emit create2Event(address(deployedAddress));
    }

    function precomputeAddress(uint _salt, address ownerAddress) public view returns (address) {
        bytes memory creationCodeValue = abi.encodePacked(type(ContractToDeploy).creationCode, abi.encode(ownerAddress));
        bytes32 hash = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(bytes1(0xff), address(this), _salt, keccak256(creationCodeValue)));
        return address(uint160(uint(hash)));
    }

}