CREATE / CREATE2 Verification

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Where do I verify whether a contract has been created with CREATE or CREATE2, would I have to disassemble the contract and look for a CREATE2 opcode in the contract creation code?

Mikhail Vladimirov · Answer 1 · 2020-01-22T21:11:15.317

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At first, most of the contracts a created via transactions from externally owned addresses, i.e. backed by private key, and thus there are neither CREATE nor CREATE2 opcodes involved.

For those contracts, that were created by another contracts, the easiest way to check would be the following:

Lets assume you need to check contract A created by contract B at block N
Obtain nonce of contract B as it was at block N - 1, lets call it X.
Obtain nonce of contract B as it was at block N, lets call it Y.
For every nonce in range [X .. Y - 1] calculate address of the contract that would be deployed with this nonce by B via CREATE opcode.
If some of the addresses calculated at step 4 is equal to address of A, then A was deployed via CREATE, otherwise via CREATE2.

edited Jan 22 '20 at 21:11

answered Apr 17 '19 at 13:08

Mikhail Vladimirov

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How do I calculate the address? I found this addr = new memory[offset:offset+length].value(value) I'm not really sure how to interpret this expression. Thanks Mikhail – NowsyMe Apr 17 '19 at 13:58
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Check this answer: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/760/how-is-the-address-of-an-ethereum-contract-computed – Mikhail Vladimirov Apr 17 '19 at 18:12
What is meant by 'nonce of contract as it was at block N - 1?' – NowsyMe Apr 18 '19 at 16:42
This should be what web3.eth.getTransactionCount(B, N-1) returns. – Mikhail Vladimirov Apr 18 '19 at 17:35

CREATE / CREATE2 Verification

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