TokenFactory

Token Factory

The tokenfactory module allows any account to create a new token with the name factory/{creator address}/{subdenom}. Because tokens are namespaced by creator address, this allows token minting to be permissionless, due to not needing to resolve name collisions. A single account can create multiple denoms, by providing a unique subdenom for each created denom. Once a denom is created, the original creator is given "admin" privileges over the asset.

This allows them to:

• Mint their denom to any account

• Burn their denom from any account

• Create a transfer of their denom between any two accounts

• Change the admin. In the future, more admin capabilities may be added. Admins can choose to share admin privileges with other accounts using the authz module. The ChangeAdmin functionality, allows changing the master admin account, or even setting it to "", meaning no account has admin privileges for the asset.

Messages

CreateDenom

Creates a denom 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 the community pool with the denom creation fee from the creator address, set in Params.

• Set DenomMetaData via the 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 a 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 a 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 the sender of the message is the admin of the denom

• Modify AuthorityMetadata state entry to change the admin of the denom