Adding Custom Restrictions (ERC20/ERC721)

How to add custom restrictions to your ERC20 token on Matic Network

ERC20 tokens on the Matic chain are standard contracts, auto-deployed by the Plasma root chain contracts, while registering a new ERC20 token on the Matic Network. These cannot be modified, in order to ensure all state transitions are mapped to fraud proofs in the root chain contracts, which basically allow these contracts to maintain the same security as the Ethereum network - this is a key component of the Plasma framework (fraud proofs).

However, in a real-world scenario, the ERC20 token owner may need to add custom restrictions on the contract, especially on the transfer function.

TL;DR

This page details the process to add custom transfer restrictions to your ERC20 token:

  • When the ERC20 token is added/mapped to the Matic Network, the function in the root contract(link) expects

    • the rootchain token contract address,

    • metadata about the token and

    • the owner address

      This also auto-deploys a corresponding standard ERC20 token contract to the Matic chain, with a mapping to the root token contract. Also, the owner address has to be provided, which later allows for authorizing a deployment of an additional contract, by which the ERC20 token owner can add transfer restrictions on the contract in the Matic chain.

  • To define any custom logic in the standard transfer function in the ERC20 token, you need to implement the IParentToken interface; see link here - https://github.com/maticnetwork/contracts/blob/master/contracts/child/misc/IParentToken.sol

  • The beforeTransfer hook function is the place where custom logic can be executed before each transfer.

  • The implemented contract must

    • follow this interface,
    • return a bool value and
    • in case of ERC20 contracts, it should not have require statements and instead return false

  • Here is a sample IParentToken contract implementation:

  • Only the owner address given at the time of token registration will be able to add/update parent contract address (IParentToken implementation with the beforeTransfer hook) in the standard ChildToken contract on the Matic network

  • For your information, you can get the address of the standard ChildToken contract (auto-deployed by the Matic root contracts) by querying the rootToChildToken mapping in the registry contract (https://github.com/maticnetwork/contracts/blob/master/contracts/common/Registry.sol)

    contract Registry is Governable {
    mapping(bytes32 => address) contractMap;
    mapping(address => address) public rootToChildToken;
    mapping(address => address) public childToRootToken;
    ...
    }

  • Ownership of the parent contract implemented in this manner (IParentToken implementation with the beforeTransfer hook) can be transferred by invoking the setParent function in the ChildERC20 contract on the Matic chain - see https://github.com/maticnetwork/contracts/blob/master/contracts/child/ChildERC20.sol

    function setParent(address _parent) public isParentOwner {
    require(_parent != address(0x0));
    parent = _parent;
    }
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