@substrate/asset-transfer-api

@substrate/asset-transfer-api

Asset API used for common good parachains

About

WARNING: THIS PACKAGE IS NOT PRODUCTION READY!

ALPHA: This package is in alpha and is being rapidly and actively developed on, so some design choices are subject to change.

Summary: Asset-transfer-api is a library focused on simplifying the construction of asset transfers for Substrate based chains that involves system parachains like Statemine and Statemint. It exposes a reduced set of methods which facilitates users to send transfers to other (para) chains or locally.

Current Cross-chain Support

The below chart is focusing on what directions are supported for constructing asset transfers and in what XCM version. The goal is to have everything in green checkmarks. Note that local transfers (intra-chain) are not visualized here.

Direction	V2	V3
System to Parachain	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:
System to Relay	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:
Relay to Parachain	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:
Relay to System	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:
Parachain to Parachain	:x:	:x:
Parachain to Relay	:x:	:x:

Note: System refers to System Parachains like Statemine and Statemint.

Usage

Npm

npm install @substrate/asset-transfer-api

Yarn

yarn add @substrate/asset-transfer-api

Example Usage

import { AssetsTransferApi, constructApiPromise } from '@substrate/asset-transfer-api';

// NOTE: This should all be wrapped in an asynchronous layer.

// This constructs a polkadot-js ApiPromise, it is totally viable for one to construct their
// own ApiPromise, and pass it into AssetsTransferApi, but keep in mind the `specName`, and `safeXcmVersion` are also necessary.
const { api, specName, safeXcmVersion } = await constructApiPromise('wss://westmint-rpc.polkadot.io');

const assetsApi = new AssetsTransferApi(api, specName, safeXcmVersion);

const call = assetsApi.createTransferTransaction(
  '2001', // destChainId (If the destination is a relay chain put `0`)
  '0x00', // destAddress
  ['1', '2'], // Array of AssetIds
  ['1000000000', '2000000000'], // Array of amounts of each token to transfer
  {
    format: 'call',
    isLimited: true,
    xcmVersion: 1
  } // Options
)

AssetTransferApi & AssetsTransferApiOpts & TransferArgsOpts

// The AssetsTransferApi exposes one method as of now called: `createTransferTransaction`

/**
 * Create an XCM transaction to transfer Assets, or native tokens from one
 * chain to another.
 *
 * @param destChainId ID of the destination (para) chain (‘0’ for Relaychain)
 * @param destAddr Address of destination account
 * @param assetIds Array of assetId's to be transferred (‘0’ for Native Relay Token)
 * @param amounts Array of the amounts of each token to transfer
 * @param opts Options
 */
AssetsTransferApi.createTransferTransaction(
  	destChainId: string,
	destAddr: string,
	assetIds: string[],
	amounts: string[],
	opts?: TransferArgsOpts<T>
)

// AssetsTransferApiOpts are the options for the `AssetsTransferApi`

type AssetsTransferApiOpts = {
	/**
	 * The injectedRegistry allows you to add custom values to the predefined initialized registry.
	 * If you would like to see the registry you may visit https://github.com/paritytech/asset-transfer-api-registry/blob/main/registry.json
	 * 
	 * An example input of the registry would be:
	 * {
	 *     polkadot: {
	 *         '9876': {
	 *             tokens: ['TST'],
	 *             assetsInfo,
	 *             specName: 'testing',
	 *         }
	 *     }
	 * }
	 * 
	 * NOTE: It supports adding info for `polkadot`, `kusama`, and `westend`.
	 */
	injectedRegistry?: RequireAtLeastOne<ChainInfoRegistry>;
};

// The TransferArgsOpts are options that give the possibility of adding certain customization to the transaction.

interface TransferArgsOpts<T extends Format> {
	/**
	 * Option that specifies the format in which to return a transaction.
	 * It can either be a `payload`, `call`, or `submittable`.
	 *
	 * Note: A `submittable` will return a `SubmittableExtrinsic` polkadot-js type, whereas
	 * a `payload` or `call` will return a hex. By default a `payload` will be returned if nothing is inputted.
	 */
	format?: T;
	/**
         * NOTE: This is in development, and being worked on and not yet supported.
         * 
	 * AssetId to pay fee's on the current common good parachain.
	 * Statemint: default DOT
	 * Statemine: default KSM
	 */
	payFeeWith?: string;
	/**
         * NOTE: This is in development, and being worked on and not yet supported.
         * 
	 * AssetId to pay fee's on the destination parachain.
	 */
	payFeeWithTo?: string;
	/**
	 * Boolean to declare if this will be with limited XCM transfers.
	 * Deafult is unlimited.
	 */
	isLimited?: boolean;
	/**
	 * When isLimited is true, the option for applying a weightLimit is possible.
	 * If not inputted it will default to `Unlimited`.
	 */
	weightLimit?: string;
	/**
	 * Set the xcmVersion for message construction. If this is not present a supported version
	 * will be queried, and if there is no supported version a safe version will be queried.
	 */
	xcmVersion?: number;
        /**
	 * For creating local asset transfers, this will allow for a `transferKeepAlive` as oppose
	 * to a `transfer`.
	 */
	keepAlive?: boolean;
}

Local Transactions

Sending an Asset or Native token locally on a System Parachain is easy. In order to create a transaction, ensure the destChainId is the same as the ID of the System Parachain itself. Note, the only System parachains that are supported are Statemine, Statemint, Westmint and as a side affect the only destChainId that is supported is 1000. In addition to that, ensure the length of the assetId's array and amounts array are 1. As sending assets will only accept one asset at a time. Keep in mind transfer, and transferKeepAlive are the only supported calls.

An example would look like:

api.createTransferTransaction(
  	'1000', // destChainId
	'0xf5d5714c084c112843aca74f8c498da06cc5a2d63153b825189baa51043b1f0b', // destAddr
	['1984'], // assetIds
	['10000000000'], // amounts
	{
		format: 'call',
		keepAlive: true
	} // opts
)

The api can also send native tokens as well. Similar to the above you would replace the assetIds with ['DOT'], in addition to that you may provide an empty array to denote you want to send the chains native token.

The api can also send local transactions for Relay chains. Its the same principal as above, the only difference being that the destChainId woule need to be '0'.

For more information, refer to the docs in the repository.

License

The source code in this repository is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. See the file. This source code comes with absolutely no warranty. Use at your own risk.

Zombienet Testing

Zombienet is used to launch a complete network including a relay chain, and two parachains. It will create HRMP channels betweens the launched parachains allowing the testing enviornment to send XCM messages and transfer assets.

Requirements:

Zombienet Binary: You can download the appropriate binary from the zombienet repositor here. Ensure that it is in the root of this directory. Note: For macos users if permission is denied to run the binary you can chmod 755 <file_name> to allow permissions.

Test Network Binaries: You will need the following binaries depending on whether you want to run a small or medium network:

• polkadot: You can find the the releases here. (Needed for small, or medium network)
• trappist-collator: This binary is compiled along with polkadot above. You can find it here. (Needed for medium network)
• polkadot-parachain (ie: cumulus): You can find the releases here. (Needed for small, or medium network)

NOTES:

• When it comes to picking a version for both cumulus and and polkadot ensure they are the same. Cumulus will have an extra 0 at the end though. Ex: v0.9.37 (polkadot) -> v0.9.370 (cumulus)

• You can retrieve the binaries via the release, or by compiling yourself. It's recommended to compile it yourself.

Copy each binary that is necessary into the root <root>/bin folder.

Running Zombienet

From the root directory run ./<zombienet_binary_name> -p native spawn ./zombienet/<network_file>.toml | tee zombienet.log

Create an asset

From the root directory run yarn start:zombienet-post-script. You can run this right after running your zombienet network.

Changelog

0.1.0-alpha.5(2023-06-07)

• Breaking Change: Rework AssetTransferApi constructor, and constructApiPromise
• Check primitive and object types for createTransferTransaction inputs
• Fix CI set-output
• Add function to get General Index of a valid token symbol
• Ensure a user can input a native token symbol or an empty array for relay directions
• Update tests to use v9420 metadata
• Add decodeExtrinsic to AssetsTransferApi
• Add balances pallet support for local transfers on relay, and system parachains
• Set RelayToPara AssetType explicitly to Foreign
• Ensure MultiAsset Ordering