Secret Network

# Secret Contracts

Secret Contracts are based on CosmWasm which is implementated on various Cosmos SDK blockchains. The CosmWasm smart contracts are like Ethereum's smart contracts except they can be used on other networks using the Inter-Blockchain Protocol (IBC). CosmWasm smart contracts are written in the Rust language.

The Secret Network has a compute module that we'll use to store, query and instantiate the smart contract. Once stored on the blockchain the contract has to be created (or instantiated) in order to execute its methods. This is similar to doing migrate on Ethereum using Truffle, which handles the deployment and creation of a smart contract.

Secret contracts run inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), where computations are performed using encrypted data (inputs, outouts, and contract state).

Next, we will go through steps to:

  • install Rust
  • install the Rust dependencies
  • create your first project

The Rust dependencies include the Rust compiler, cargo (package manager), toolchain and a package to generate projects. You can check out the Rust book, rustlings course, examples and more here.

  1. Install Rust

More information about installing Rust can be found here: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env

Update the rust compiler

In case rust is installed already, make sure to update the rust compiler.

rustup update
  1. Add rustup target wasm32 for both stable and nightly
rustup default stable
rustup target list --installed
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

rustup install nightly
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown --toolchain nightly
  1. If using linux, install the standard build tools:
apt install build-essential
  1. Run cargo install cargo-generate

Cargo generate is the tool you'll use to create a secret contract project.

cargo install cargo-generate --features vendored-openssl

# Create your first Secret Contract

  1. generate the initial project
  2. compile the secret contract
  3. run unit tests
  4. optimize the wasm contract bytecode to prepare for deployment
  5. deploy the secret contract to your local Secret Network
  6. instantiate it with contract parameters

# Generate the Secret Contract Project

cargo generate --git https://github.com/enigmampc/secret-template --name mysimplecounter

The git project above is a secret contract template that implements a simple counter. The contract is created with a parameter for the initial count and allows subsequent incrementing.

Change directory to the project you created and view the structure and files that were created.

cd mysimplecounter

The generate creates a directory with the project name and has this structure:

Cargo.lock	Developing.md	LICENSE		Publishing.md	examples	schema		tests
Cargo.toml	Importing.md	NOTICE		README.md	rustfmt.toml	src

# Compile the Secret Contract

Use the following command to compile the Secret Contract, which produces the wasm contract file.

cargo wasm

# Run Unit Tests

Tests in this template currently fail unless you have SGX enabled.

RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo unit-test

# Integration Tests

The integration tests are under the tests/ directory and run as:

cargo integration-test

# Generate Msg Schemas

We can also generate JSON Schemas that serve as a guide for anyone trying to use the contract, to specify which arguments they need.

Auto-generate msg schemas (when changed):

cargo schema

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