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In this section we describe the processing of the tokenfactory messages and the corresponding updates to the state.

Messages​

CreateDenom​

Creates a denom of factory/{creator address}/{subdenom} given the denom creator address and the subdenom. Subdenoms can contain [a-zA-Z0-9./].

message MsgCreateDenom {
  string sender = 1 [ (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"sender\"" ];
  string subdenom = 2 [ (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"subdenom\"" ];
}

State Modifications:

  • Fund community pool with the denom creation fee from the creator address, set in Params.
  • Set DenomMetaData via bank keeper.
  • Set AuthorityMetadata for the given denom to store the admin for the created denom factory/{creator address}/{subdenom}. Admin is automatically set as the Msg sender.
  • Add denom to the CreatorPrefixStore, where a state of denoms created per creator is kept.

Mint​

Minting of a specific denom is only allowed for the current admin. Note, the current admin is defaulted to the creator of the denom.

message MsgMint {
  string sender = 1 [ (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"sender\"" ];
  cosmos.base.v1beta1.Coin amount = 2 [
    (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"amount\"",
    (gogoproto.nullable) = false
  ];
}

State Modifications:

  • Safety check the following
    • Check that the denom minting is created via tokenfactory module
    • Check that the sender of the message is the admin of the denom
  • Mint designated amount of tokens for the denom via bank module

Burn​

Burning of a specific denom is only allowed for the current admin. Note, the current admin is defaulted to the creator of the denom.

message MsgBurn {
  string sender = 1 [ (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"sender\"" ];
  cosmos.base.v1beta1.Coin amount = 2 [
    (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"amount\"",
    (gogoproto.nullable) = false
  ];
}

State Modifications:

  • Safety check the following
    • Check that the denom minting is created via tokenfactory module
    • Check that the sender of the message is the admin of the denom
  • Burn designated amount of tokens for the denom via bank module

ChangeAdmin​

Change the admin of a denom. Note, this is only allowed to be called by the current admin of the denom.

message MsgChangeAdmin {
  string sender = 1 [ (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"sender\"" ];
  string denom = 2 [ (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"denom\"" ];
  string newAdmin = 3 [ (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"new_admin\"" ];
}

SetDenomMetadata​

Setting of metadata for a specific denom is only allowed for the admin of the denom. It allows the overwriting of the denom metadata in the bank module.

message MsgChangeAdmin {
  string sender = 1 [ (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"sender\"" ];
  cosmos.bank.v1beta1.Metadata metadata = 2 [ (gogoproto.moretags) = "yaml:\"metadata\"", (gogoproto.nullable)   = false ];
}

State Modifications:

  • Check that sender of the message is the admin of denom
  • Modify AuthorityMetadata state entry to change the admin of the denom

Expectations from the chain​

The chain's bech32 prefix for addresses can be at most 16 characters long.

This comes from denoms having a 128 byte maximum length, enforced from the SDK, and us setting longest_subdenom to be 44 bytes.

A token factory token's denom is: factory/{creator address}/{subdenom}

Splitting up into sub-components, this has:

  • len(factory) = 7
  • 2 * len("/") = 2
  • len(longest_subdenom)
  • len(creator_address) = len(bech32(longest_addr_length, chain_addr_prefix)).

Longest addr length at the moment is 32 bytes. Due to SDK error correction settings, this means len(bech32(32, chain_addr_prefix)) = len(chain_addr_prefix) + 1 + 58. Adding this all, we have a total length constraint of 128 = 7 + 2 + len(longest_subdenom) + len(longest_chain_addr_prefix) + 1 + 58. Therefore len(longest_subdenom) + len(longest_chain_addr_prefix) = 128 - (7 + 2 + 1 + 58) = 60.

The choice between how we standardized the split these 60 bytes between maxes from longest_subdenom and longest_chain_addr_prefix is somewhat arbitrary. Considerations going into this:

  • Per BIP-0173 the technically longest HRP for a 32 byte address ('data field') is 31 bytes. (Comes from encode(data) = 59 bytes, and max length = 90 bytes)
  • subdenom should be at least 32 bytes so hashes can go into it
  • longer subdenoms are very helpful for creating human readable denoms
  • chain addresses should prefer being smaller. The longest HRP in cosmos to date is 11 bytes. (persistence)

For explicitness, its currently set to len(longest_subdenom) = 44 and len(longest_chain_addr_prefix) = 16.

Please note, if the SDK increases the maximum length of a denom from 128 bytes, these caps should increase.

So please don't make code rely on these max lengths for parsing.