Smart contracts

Fieres swap is a binary smart contract system. Core contracts provide fundamental safety guarantees for all parties interacting with Fieres swap. Periphery contracts interact with one or more core.

Core

The core consists of a singleton factory and many pairs, which the factory is responsible for creating and indexing. These contracts are quite minimal, even brutalist. The simple rationale for this is that contracts with a smaller surface area are easier to reason about, less bug-prone, and more functionally elegant. Perhaps the biggest upside of this design is that many desired properties of the system can be asserted directly in the code, leaving little room for error. One downside, however, is that core contracts are somewhat user-unfriendly. In fact, interacting directly with these contracts is not recommended for most use cases. Instead, a periphery contract should be used.

Factory

The factory holds the generic bytecode responsible for powering pairs. Its primary job is to create one and only one smart contract per unique token pair. It also contains logic to turn on the protocol charge.

Pairs

Pairs have two primary purposes: serving as automated market makers and keeping track of pool token balances. They also expose data which can be used to build decentralized price oracles.

Periphery

The periphery is a constellation of smart contracts designed to support domain-specific interactions with the core. Because of Fieres swap's permissionless nature, the contracts described below have no special privileges, and are in fact only a small subset of the universe of possible periphery-like contracts. However, they are useful examples of how to safely and efficiently interact with Fieres swap.

Library

The library provides a variety of convenience functions for fetching data and pricing.

Router

The router, which uses the library, fully supports all the basic requirements of a front-end offering trading and liquidity management functionality. Notably, it natively supports multi-pair trades (e.g. x to y to z), treats FIERO as a first-class citizen, and offers meta-transactions for removing liquidity.

Design Decisions

The following sections describe some of the notable design decisions made in Fieres swap. These are safe to skip unless you're interested in gaining a deep technical understanding of how Fieres swap works under the hood, or writing smart contract integrations!

Sending Tokens

Typically, smart contracts which need tokens to perform some functionality require would-be interactors to first make an approval on the token contract, then call a function that in turn calls transferFrom on the token contract. This is not how Fieres swap pairs accept tokens. Instead, pairs check their token balances at the end of every interaction. Then, at the beginning of the next interaction, current balances are differenced against the stored values to determine the amount of tokens that were sent by the current interactor. See the whitepaper for a justification of why this is the case, but the takeaway is that tokens must be transferred to the pair before calling any token-requiring method.

WFIERO

Fieres swap pairs do not support FIERO directly, so FIERO⇄FRO-20 pairs must be emulated with WFIERO. The motivation behind this choice was to remove FIERO-specific code in the core, resulting in a leaner codebase. End users can be kept fully ignorant of this implementation detail, however, by simply wrapping/unwrapping FIERO in the periphery.

The router fully supports interacting with any WFIERO pair via FIERO.

Minimum Liquidity

To ameliorate rounding errors and increase the theoretical minimum tick size for liquidity provision, pairs burn the first minimum quantity pool tokens. For the vast majority of pairs, this will represent a trivial value. The burning happens automatically during the first liquidity provision, after which point the total supply is forevermore bounded.