Clarity Marketplace

Clarity smart contract for a marketplace of tradable assets (some kind of basic NFTs)

(Inspired by the marketplace of monstereos.io)

This is a submission to the CLARITY HACK of the Stacks 2.0 Hackathon Series.

Smart Contracts

The main contract market.clar describes the marketplaces. tradables.clar defines the interface (trait) of tradable assets. There are two examples of tradable assets:

• monsters.clar: a simple tamagoshi like monster that needs to be fed every 6 blocks
• constant-tradables.clar: a dump asset that always belongs to the contract and transferring assets won't change ownership.

The marketplace supports all assets that have are NFTs with uint keys.

Public functions of the marketplace

The marketplace provides two functions for a bidder for a token:

• bid: allows to publish a price for a tradable asset that is defined by a contract implementating the tradables-trait and by an unsigned integer.
• pay: after the bid was accepted by the current owner, the bidder can pay for the asset using this function and the asset will be transferred to the bidder.

The owner of a tradable asset can choose to accept a bid from all current bids:

• accept: allows to accept a bid for the tradable asset. The asset will be transferred to the marketplace until the bidder has paid the price.
• cancel: allows to cancel an accepted bid that was not yet paid, e.g. because the bidder disappeared

Used features of Clarity

The marketplace contract uses

• a map to store offers.
• the contract as an escrow for transferring assets.
• traits to handle any kind of tradables assets. It makes use of contract-of to store the contract of the assets.
• stx transfers and nft transfers within contract calls that benefit from the post condition feature of the stacks chain.

Notes

• Testing using the clarity-js-sdk is currently not possible as the latest SDK (0.2.0) does not support contract-of function. (Workaround: copy the most recent binary clarity-cli to the node_modules/@blockstack/clarity-native-bin/.native-bin folder of this project)
• Deploying to testnet works (run npx ts-node scripts/market.ts), however, due to issue #92 it is not possible to call functions with traits as arguments.

Simplified Marketplace

As a consequence, a simplified marketplace is defined in folder contract-simple. The marketplace can only trade monsters (defined in monsters.clar). The functions are the same, the difference is that traits are not used.

To test the simple contract, run yarn mocha test/market-simple.ts. While it is possible to initialize the VM with accounts with set amounts of STX, the current SDK does not support this feature. Therefore, the test does not include sucessful calls to the pay function.

Deployment

There is a script in folder scripts called market.ts that can be used to deploy the contracts to the testnet. Replace the location of the keychain.json file ontop of the script. Then run

npx ts-node scripts/market.ts

Future Work

After the issues mentioned in Notes have been solved the following tasks should be done:

• build a web ui for making and accepting bids
• run a server that maintains the list of current bids for assets. The list is not maintained on-chain because the list can be easily recreated from the history of relevant transactions.