Using SAFE

The Ethereum-based SAFE can be used to manage a SKALE Chain, IF set as the SKALE Chain owner during creation. It operates using SKALE’s Native IMA bridge to execute on a SKALE Chain.

Caution

SKALE only supports SAFE ownership assigned to Ethereum SAFE’s. While SAFE does support cross-chain address ownership (in many cases), utilizing an address that is not attainable on Ethereum may result in issues with sChain operations.

Sending Transactions on sChain

Sending transactions to your SKALE Chain requires encoding the function data to execute via both Marionette and IMA. The recommended way for this is to use the multisigwallet CLI from SKALE.

Prepare Transaction Data

This uses the encodeData command from MultisigWallet CLI

The following example will help you grant a specific role to an externally owned account (EOA) on your SKALE Chain. This can be useful in the early days of setting up your chain to help distribute sFUEL with scripts as needed.

Name	Value
Contract Name	Etherbase
Role	ETHER_MANAGER_ROLE
Role Id (keccak256)	0xe0ba7b49edc651b7ad93b374c67f1e9a0d37370168bbb86b81c569ebfa15f046
Receiver	0xa9E1712086412A157A2A187A111bFAb203C73F6E
SKALE Chain Name	juicy-low-small-testnet

Note

juicy-low-small-testnet is SKALE Europa Testnet. Make sure to substitute with your own.

npx msig encodeData juicy-low-small-testnet Etherbase grantRole 0xe0ba7b49edc651b7ad93b374c67f1e9a0d37370168bbb86b81c569ebfa15f046 0xa9E1712086412A157A2A187A111bFAb203C73F6E

# Output
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

Caution

The above example uses Europa Testnet sChain Name. Your SKALE Chain name will be a unique identifier. Make sure to use the right SKALE Chain name otherwise the transaction will fail and consume gas. The output should change slightly to match your sCHain Name.

Submit Transaction to SAFE

Note

The below may look slightly different as it uses Holesky Protofire frontend.

1. Go to SAFE App or your preferred frontend for SAFE.
2. Press New Transaction and then Transaction Builder

3. Enable the toggle Custom Data

4. Input the MessageProxy address for your correct environment into the Contract Address field and select Use Implementation ABI

Tip

Each SKALE Manager deployment — Mainnet, Testnet, etc. — has a smart contract called MessageProxy which is what sends data between Ethereum and SKALE Chains. Grab the correct address from the table below and verify by visiting the SKALE Network Releases Repo.

MessageProxy Contract Addresses

Network	Contract Address
Ethereum Mainnet	0x8629703a9903515818C2FeB45a6f6fA5df8Da404
Ethereum Holesky Testnet	0x682ef859e1cE314ceD13A6FA32cE77AaeCE98e28

5. Input 0 for ETH Value
6. Input the above Output from the npx msig... command into the Data (Hex Encoded) field (see image).

7. Click Add transaction, scroll down, and click Create Batch, then click Send Batch. Tenderly simulation is generally available, even on testnet, and is encouraged to be used to see all the changes occuring on the Ethereum side before they occur.

Tip

You can execute multiple SKALE Chain adminsistrative commands in one single “batch”. This is recommended in production when you have many commands to execute.

Executing the Transaction

Executing the transaction is equivalent to sending a transaction to the blockchain. As this requires the SKALE Network validators to pickup the message from Ethereum and post it to the SKALE Chain, please allow time for the Ethereum transaction to be included and for the message to post to SKALE.

Note

SAFEs in production should generally not have only 1 signer allowed to execute once the chain is out of the “setup” stage. Note that transactions will not execute until sufficient signers have confirmed/signed the transaction on SAFE.