Smart Contract Deployment Permissioning

Overview​

This guide goes into detail on how to whitelist addresses that can deploy smart contracts. Sometimes network operators wish to prevent users from deploying smart contracts that are unrelated to the network's purpose. Network operators can:

1. Whitelist addresses for Smart Contract deployment

2. Remove addresses from the whitelist for Smart Contract deployment

Video presentation​

How to use it?​

You can find all cli commands related to the deployment whitelist in the CLI Commands page.

• whitelist show: Displays whitelist information

• whitelist deployment --add: Adds a new address to the contract deployment whitelist

• whitelist deployment --remove: Removes a new address from the contract deployment whitelist

Show all addresses in the deployment whitelist​

There are 2 ways to find addresses from the deployment whitelist.

1. Looking at the genesis.json where whitelists are saved

2. Executing whitelist show, which prints information for all whitelists supported by Polygon Edge

./polygon-edge whitelist show 

[WHITELISTS]

Contract deployment whitelist : [0x5383Cb489FaCa92365Bb6f9f1FB40bD032E6365d],

Add an address to the deployment whitelist​

To add a new address to the deployment whitelist execute whitelist deployment --add [ADDRESS] CLI command. There is no limit to the number of addresses present in the whitelist. Only addresses that exist in the contract deployment whitelist can deploy contracts. If the whitelist is empty, any address can do the deployment

./polygon-edge whitelist deployment --add 0x5383Cb489FaCa92365Bb6f9f1FB40bD032E6365d --add 0x30ea4435167Ee91f9f874b5a894F3282A956C3FF
 

[CONTRACT DEPLOYMENT WHITELIST]

Added addresses: [0x5383Cb489FaCa92365Bb6f9f1FB40bD032E6365d 0x30ea4435167Ee91f9f874b5a894F3282A956C3FF],
Contract deployment whitelist : [0x5383Cb489FaCa92365Bb6f9f1FB40bD032E6365d 0x30ea4435167Ee91f9f874b5a894F3282A956C3FF],

Remove an address from the deployment whitelist​

To remove an address from the deployment whitelist execute whitelist deployment --remove [ADDRESS] CLI command. Only addresses that exist in the contract deployment whitelist can deploy contracts. If the whitelist is empty, any address can do the deployment

./polygon-edge whitelist deployment --remove 0x5383Cb489FaCa92365Bb6f9f1FB40bD032E6365d --remove 0x30ea4435167Ee91f9f874b5a894F3282A956C3FF
 

[CONTRACT DEPLOYMENT WHITELIST]

Removed addresses: [0x5383Cb489FaCa92365Bb6f9f1FB40bD032E6365d 0x30ea4435167Ee91f9f874b5a894F3282A956C3FF],
Contract deployment whitelist : [],