Ethereum Distribution System

The Ethereum Distribution System (EDS) is an open and decentralized, fully on-chain distribution (factory) system for Ethereum smart contracts. Using EDS enables developers to publish and reuse each other's code in a trustless manner. Built-in system for semantic versioning, managing versions and combining into higher level distributions allows developers to avoid using upgradability patterns, instead relying on version control.
System provisions for generic interfaces for distributors, developers and installers, each with their own responsibilities and constraints.

Use cases

• Factory Framework: Instead of writing own factory, just write a distribution and register it
• Ship faster: Reduce the number of needed deployment artifacts to ship your project. Re-using other packages instead!
• Security oracles: Disconnect vulnerable code from your users in O(1)
• Semantic versioning with EIP712: Instead of having to figure out "what to write in EIP712 constructor" just use the built in version control system!
• User owned upgradability: Get more user trust by allowing them to decide when to upgrade
• Improve user UX: Configure trust within instance or distribution, so that your users do not need to set allowances and issue permits anymore!
• On-chain github: Refer bytecode instead of location using (ERC7744)
• Better Monetize your apps and services: As your application becomes distributed, and wrapped, you may directly build in payment systems and subscription models on-chain!

Overview

This system acts as a generalized and efficient factory which is designed in one-fits-all principle. It achieves this by splitting EDS users in following groups:

• Developers: Create a distributable (stateless) software that can be instantiated. It can use already deployed contracts and functionality!
• Distributors: Security firms and traditional distributor agencies. Ensure that distributions they list are secure (think of this as a runtime checked audit attestation), trusted and act in their user interest!
• Smart accounts: Use Distributor software to plug it into your smart account!

IN the background, there is extensive use of proxies to map instances, that are proxies, to a right functionality. Instances are also treated as middlewares that are hooked to the distributor with use of ERC7746, in such a way that the caller cannot reach the functionality without first checking with the distributor. The distributor in turn, by default, checks if the instance is a valid distribution.
If the developer wants to manage multiple versions of the same resource, they can create a Repository contract to add their own index on top of global.

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Key Features

• Verifiable: Stateless distribution components are easily verifiable by anyone through their bytecode.
• Permission-less: Anyone can deploy distribution components without requiring permissions.
• Inclusive: Can accommodate already deployed on-chain functionality.
• Versionable: Semver based versioning can be applied to manage resources.
• Plug-n-Play: Installation procedures,easily customizable for any target platform are provisioned.
• Secure: Isolated contract sets and baked-in runtime checks enable trust chain between developers, distributors and users.
• Efficient: Extensive reuse of the same bytecode reduces gas costs, increasing efficiency across the industry.

Key Components

System components are broken down into four domains: Permission-less, Developer, Distributor and User. Each domain has its own set of contracts and interfaces, which are designed to work together to provide a seamless experience for developers and users.

Permission-less Domain

CodeIndex (ERC-7744)

A stateful, permissionless contract allowing anyone to register associations between bytecode and its on-chain location. Any smart contract may be indexed by CodeIndex based on its bytecode. Proposed CREATE2 implementation with deterministic address : 0xc0D31d398c5ee86C5f8a23FA253ee8a586dA03Ce

Distribution

Interface for contracts that allow specific mechanics of instantiation of referred bytecode identifiers in the CodeIndex. It may be using different methods for instantiation, yet it is ultimately referred by it's bytecode hash and instantiation methods kept non-parametric, to promote hardcoding of instantiation logic by the distribution creator, ultimately making any distribution a unique part of code ecosystem. It also allows distribution creators to associate own metadata with the distribution, such as URIs defined in ERC-190 or ERC-2678

Developer Domain

Repositories

Repositories are interfaces provided for stateful, permissioned contracts allowing developers to manage resources and versions. Such repositories may return any kind of source code reference, including system-internal used ones, like IDistribution. It allows developers to increment versions according to Semver as well as implement version requirements lookup for the clients.

Non-Stateless Distributions

Any implementation of Distribution interface mentioned in the Permission-less Domain, that is stateful is considered as a Developer Domain component. It is possible in principle, yet will be used only for specific use-cases, where stateful distribution is required and will require distribution users to use direct location addressing, effectively excluding it from the global index system.

Distributor Domain

Distributor

Stateful, permissioned contract interface for managing distributions. It allows distributors, who may act as trusted source for many, to have their own index of trusted distributions coupled to any, parametric, initialization logic that they might need. This is a first point on instantiation chain that allows to configure distribution after it's been instantiated.

Version Distributor

Same as Distributor, but with additional functionality to manage versions of distributions. It allows to manage multiple versions of the same distribution and to provide version requirements lookup for the clients. Distributor may change the version of the repository, effectively disabling, in one go, every outdated version instances from operating in the system.

User Domain

Installer

Stateful, permissioned contracts for managing permissions and accessing targets from multiple distributors. Allows end-users to manage trusted sources for their installations.

Getting Started

Installation

pnpm install
pnpm test # Run tests

Examples

Examples of distributions usage can be found in src/distributions directory. Examples of repositories usage can be found in src/repositories directory. Examples of distributors usage can be found in src/distributors directory.

Larger example of usage can be found in Rankify project repo

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