Teleporter Token Bridge

Teleporter Token Bridge enables users to transfer tokens between Avalanche L1s. The bridge is a set of smart contracts that are deployed across multiple Avalanche L1s, and leverages Teleporter for cross-chain communication.

For more information on Teleporter Token Bridge, check:

Teleporter Token Bridge README

How to Deploy Teleporter Token Bridge on a Local Network

This how-to guide focuses on deploying Teleporter Token Bridge on a local Avalanche network.

After this tutorial, you would have learned how to transfer an ERC-20 token between two Teleporter-enabled Avalanche L1s and between C-Chain and a Teleporter-enabled Avalanche L1.

Prerequisites

For our example, you will first need to create and deploy a Teleporter-enabled Avalanche L1 in Local Network. We will name our Avalanche L1 testblockchain.

To create a Teleporter-enabled Avalanche L1 configuration, visit here
To deploy a Teleporter-enabled Avalanche L1, visit here

Deploy ERC-20 Token in C-Chain

First, let's create an ERC-20 Token and deploy it to C-Chain. For our example, it will be called TOK.

Sample script to deploy the ERC-20 Token can be found here.

To deploy the ERC-20 Token to C-Chain, we will call:

avalanche contract deploy erc20

When the command is run, our EWOQ address 0x8db97C7cEcE249c2b98bDC0226Cc4C2A57BF52FC would have received 100000 TOK tokens in C-Chain.

Note that 0x5DB9A7629912EBF95876228C24A848de0bfB43A9 is our ERC-20 Token address, which we will use in our next command.

Deploy Teleporter Token Bridge

Next, we will now deploy Teleporter Token Bridge to our Local Network, where we will deploy the Home Contract to C-Chain and the Remote Contract to our Avalanche L1.

avalanche teleporter bridge deploy 
✔ Local Network
✔ C-Chain
✔ Deploy a new Home for the token
✔ An ERC-20 token
Enter the address of the ERC-20 Token: 0x5DB9A7629912EBF95876228C24A848de0bfB43A9
✔ Subnet testblockchain
Downloading Bridge Contracts
Compiling Bridge
 
Home Deployed to http://127.0.0.1:9650/ext/bc/C/rpc
Home Address: 0x4Ac1d98D9cEF99EC6546dEd4Bd550b0b287aaD6D
 
Remote Deployed to http://127.0.0.1:9650/ext/bc/2TnSWd7odhkDWKYFDZHqU7CvtY8G6m46gWxUnhJRNYu4bznrrc/rpc
Remote Address: 0x7DD1190e6F6CE8eE13C08F007FdAEE2f881B45D0

Before we transfer our ERC-20 token from C-Chain to our Avalanche L1, we will first call avalanche key list command to check our initial balances in C-Chain and Avalanche L1.

We will inquire the balances of our ERC-20 Token TOK both in C-Chain and our Avalanche L1, which has the address of 0x5DB9A7629912EBF95876228C24A848de0bfB43A9 in the C-Chain and address of 0x7DD1190e6F6CE8eE13C08F007FdAEE2f881B45D0 in our Avalanche L1 testblockchain.

`avalanche key list --local --keys ewoq,blockchain_airdrop --subnets c,testblockchain --tokens 0x5DB9A7629912EBF95876228C24A848de0bfB43A9,0x7DD1190e6F6CE8eE13C08F007FdAEE2f881B45D0`
+--------+--------------------+------------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
|  KIND  |        NAME        | SUBNET     |                  ADDRESS                   |     TOKEN     |     BALANCE     |    NETWORK    |
+--------+--------------------+---------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
| stored | ewoq               | testblockchain | 0x8db97C7cEcE249c2b98bDC0226Cc4C2A57BF52FC | TOK (0x7DD1.) |               0 | Local Network |
+        +                    +---------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
|        |                    | C-Chain    | 0x8db97C7cEcE249c2b98bDC0226Cc4C2A57BF52FC | TOK (0x5DB9.) | 100000.000000000| Local Network |
+        +--------------------+---------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
|        | blockchain  | testblockchain | 0x5a4601D594Aa3848cA5EE0770b7883d3DBC666f6 | TOK (0x7DD1.) |               0 | Local Network |
+        + _airdrop           +---------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
|        |                    | C-Chain    | 0x5a4601D594Aa3848cA5EE0770b7883d3DBC666f6 | TOK (0x5DB9.) |               0 | Local Network |
+--------+--------------------+------------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+

Transfer the Token from C-Chain to Our Avalanche L1

Now we will transfer 100 TOK tokens from our ewoq address in C-Chain to blockchain_airdrop address in our Avalanche L1 testblockchain. Note that we will be using the Home contract address 0x4Ac1d98D9cEF99EC6546dEd4Bd550b0b287aaD6D and Remote contract address 0x7DD1190e6F6CE8eE13C08F007FdAEE2f881B45D0.

avalanche key transfer
✔ Local Network
✔ C-Chain
✔ Subnet testblockchain
Enter the address of the Bridge on c-chain: 0x4Ac1d98D9cEF99EC6546dEd4Bd550b0b287aaD6D
Enter the address of the Bridge on testblockchain: 0x7DD1190e6F6CE8eE13C08F007FdAEE2f881B45D0
✔ ewoq
✔ Key
✔ blockchain_airdrop
Amount to send (TOKEN units): 100

Verify That Transfer Is Successful

We will call avalanche key list command again to verify that the transfer is successful.

blockchain_airdrop should now have 100 TOK tokens in our Avalanche L1 testblockchain and our EWOQ account now has 99900 TOK tokens in C-Chain.

avalanche key list --local --keys ewoq,blockchain_airdrop --subnets c,testblockchain --tokens 0x5DB9A7629912EBF95876228C24A848de0bfB43A9,0x7DD1190e6F6CE8eE13C08F007FdAEE2f881B45D0
+--------+--------------------+------------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
|  KIND  |        NAME        | SUBNET     |                  ADDRESS                   |     TOKEN     |     BALANCE     |    NETWORK    |
+--------+--------------------+---------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
| stored | ewoq               | testblockchain | 0x8db97C7cEcE249c2b98bDC0226Cc4C2A57BF52FC | TOK (0x7DD1.) |               0 | Local Network |
+        +                    +---------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
|        |                    | C-Chain    | 0x8db97C7cEcE249c2b98bDC0226Cc4C2A57BF52FC | TOK (0x5DB9.) | 99900.000000000 | Local Network |
+        +--------------------+---------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
|        | blockchain  | testblockchain | 0x5a4601D594Aa3848cA5EE0770b7883d3DBC666f6 | TOK (0x7DD1.) |   100.000000000 | Local Network |
+        + _airdrop           +---------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+
|        |                    | C-Chain    | 0x5a4601D594Aa3848cA5EE0770b7883d3DBC666f6 | TOK (0x5DB9.) |               0 | Local Network |
+--------+--------------------+------------+--------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------+

And that's it! You have now successfully completed your first transfer from C-Chain to Avalanche L1 using Teleporter Token Bridge!