📚 Solid Grinder 📚

be optimism gas optimizooor!!

A CLI that goes along with building blocks of smart contract. Along with our front-end snippets, this toolbox can reduce L2 gas cost by encoding calldata for dApps development to use as little bytes of calldata as possible.

Note💡

The code is not audited yet. Please use it carefully in production.

What is it for ?

This dApp building block is intended to reduce L2 gas costs by a significant amount, using calldata optimization paradigm.

While security in our top priority, we aim to enhance developer experience, such that the entire protocol is not required to re-written from scratch.

What you need to do is specify how argument is packed into one single calldata, then our CLI will generate required files for you !!

Benchmarks

We provide how the UniswapV2's router is optimized as follows:

```solidity /** ... */ contract UniswapV2Router02 is IUniswapV2Router02 {

    /** ... */

    function addLiquidity(
        address tokenA,
        address tokenB,
        uint256 amountADesired,
        uint256 amountBDesired,
        uint256 amountAMin,
        uint256 amountBMin,
        address to,
        uint256 deadline
    ) public virtual override ensure(deadline) returns (uint256 amountA, uint256 amountB, uint256 liquidity) {
        /** ... */
    }
    /** ... */
}

```

```solidity

/** ... */
contract UniswapV2Router02_Optimized is UniswapV2Router02, Ownable, UniswapV2Router02_Decoder {

    /** ... */

    function addLiquidityCompressed(bytes calldata _payload)
        external
        payable
        returns (uint256 amountA, uint256 amountB, uint256 liquidity)
    {
        (addLiquidityData memory addLiquidityData,) = _decode_addLiquidityData(_payload, 0);

        return UniswapV2Router02.addLiquidity(
            addLiquidityData.tokenA,
            addLiquidityData.tokenB,
            addLiquidityData.amountADesired,
            addLiquidityData.amountBDesired,
            addLiquidityData.amountAMin,
            addLiquidityData.amountBMin,
            addLiquidityData.to,
            addLiquidityData.deadline
        );
    }
    /** ... */

}

```

The second one is UniswapV2Router02_Encoder.sol

```solidity

/** ... */

contract UniswapV2Router02_Encoder { IAddressTable public immutable addressTable;

    /** ... */

    function encode_addLiquidityData(
        address tokenA,
        address tokenB,
        uint256 amountADesired,
        uint256 amountBDesired,
        uint256 amountAMin,
        uint256 amountBMin,
        address to,
        uint256 deadline
    )
        external
        view
        returns (
            bytes memory _compressedPayload
        )
    {
        /** ... */
    }

    /** ... */

}

```

As shown above, the various input arguments of original contract are compressed into a single calldata via encoder. It is then decoded to be used later in decoder. Thus, nearly half bytes of calldata is reduced.

This can be illustrated by following:

sh $ cast calldata "addLiquidity(address,address,uint256,uint256,uint256,uint256,address,uint256)" 0x106EABe0298ec286Adf962994f0Dcf250c4BB763 0xEbfc763Eb9e1d1ab09Eb2f70549b66682AfD9aa5 1200000000000000000000 2500000000000000000000 1000000000000000000000 2000000000000000000000 0x095E7BAea6a6c7c4c2DfeB977eFac326aF552d87 100

sh 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

sh $ cast calldata "addLiquidityCompressed(bytes)" 000001000002000000410d586a20a4c00000000000878678326eac9000000000003635c9adc5dea000000000006c6b935b8bbd4000000000030000000064

sh 0x2feccbed0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003e000001000002000000410d586a20a4c00000000000878678326eac9000000000003635c9adc5dea000000000006c6b935b8bbd40000000000300000000640000

Hence, this saves bytes by around 50% of calldata. This figure is quite impactful when implementing on dApp deployed on L2 (like Optimism) where L2 users pay their significant portion of L1 security cost of batch submission. The L1 gas could possibly be 99% of the total gas cost (L1 + 2 gas).

This essentially means that either the fewer bytes of call data sent or the tighter packed call data, the lower gas users will pay on L2.

As a result, our optimized version of UniswapV2's rounter could potentially save nearly 50% of gas on L2.

Note💡

The gas amount saved heavily depends on L1 security cost which can vary, depending on the congestion on L1.

Mathematically, The total gas is the total of the L2 execution fee and the L1 data/security fee.

Here's the (simple) math:

sh total_gas_fee = l2_execution_fee + l1_data_fee

where l2_execution_fee is :

sh l2_execution_fee = transaction_gas_price * l2_gas_used transaction_gas_price = l2_base_fee + l2_priority_fee

and l1_data_fee is :

sh l1_data_fee = l1_gas_price * (tx_data_gas + fixed_overhead) * dynamic_overhead

where tx_data_gas is:

sh tx_data_gas = count_zero_bytes(tx_data) * 4 + count_non_zero_bytes(tx_data) * 16

You can read the parameter values from the gas oracle contract.

The more detail could be found at the Optimism's Documentation.

Quickstart

(WIP)

For simplicity, we use the UniswapV2's router as mentioned in Benchmarks as an example.

  1. Choose a function to optimize then do calldata bit packing. It is the same concept as storage bit packing. The main goal is to pack arguments into single 256 bits, such that the number of bits is lowest, minimizing the calldata as little as possible.

For uint type, we can, for example, minimize the time period into type of uint40 (5 bytes). This is safe as the upper bound is around 35k years, which is long enough.

For address type, the bit size is specified as uint24, assuming that the address table can store the maximum of 16,777,216 ids.

The following is the guideline how we can define the arguments' ranges.

ts // 24-bit, 16,777,216 possible // 32-bit, 4,294,967,296 possible // 40-bit, 1,099,511,627,776 => ~35k years // 72-bit, 4,722 (18 decimals) // 88-bit, 309m (18 decimals) // 96-bit, 79b or 79,228,162,514 (18 decimals)

Note💡

Now, the tool only generates one function in each iteration. If you intend to optimize two functions, you can still use it two times and then add the second one to the first one.

  1. Build the binary for CLI

sh cargo build

  1. Generate decoder contract

sh target/debug/solid-grinder gen-decoder --source 'contracts/examples/uniswapv2/UniswapV2Router02.sol' --output 'contracts/examples/uniswapv2' --contract-name 'UniswapV2Router02' --function-name 'addLiquidity' --arg-bits '24 24 96 96 96 96 24 40'

  1. Generate encoder contract

sh target/debug/solid-grinder gen-encoder --source 'contracts/examples/uniswapv2/UniswapV2Router02.sol' --output 'contracts/examples/uniswapv2' --contract-name 'UniswapV2Router02' --function-name 'addLiquidity' --arg-bits '24 24 96 96 96 96 24 40'

  1. be an optimism gas optimizooor!!

Note💡

It is recommended to manually change original (un-optimized) contract's visibility to public. From user perspective, it is then safe to still include the original version, meaning that users can directly and quickly interact via Etherscan in emergency case (i.e. front-end part is down). This is because it is difficult to interact with the optimized version via Etherscan, because the user have to manually compress arguments into single payload themselves.

```solidity /** ... */ contract UniswapV2Router02 is IUniswapV2Router02 {

    /** ... */

    function addLiquidity(
        /** ... */
    ) public virtual override ensure(deadline) returns (uint256 amountA, uint256 amountB, uint256 liquidity) {
        /** ... */
    }
    /** ... */
}

```

How It Works

It works by optimizing calldata by using as little bytes of calldata as possible.

Specifically, Our novel components are as follows:

  1. Solidity snippets: one contract to encode call data on chain. Another to decode it. This component has following feat:

  2. Front-end snippets: to atomically connect between encoding and decoding component into single call
  3. CLI: to generate the above solidity snippets (,including Encoder and Decode contracts). The only task requires to do is to specify the data type to pack the calldata while ensuring security.

Architecture

WIP

Change original (un-optimized) contract's visibility to public first