Context and Problem Statement

Collections will be key in the Decentraland ecosystem. To bring more scalability and reduce costs the L2 will be seen as the main chain, and L1, as the gateway for collectors to use/buy/sell tokens in other platforms.

L1 could be seen as Ethereum mainnet and L2 any other sidechain EVM compatible as Matic or xDai.

Each collection follows the ERC721 standard. Every token transferred between layers will keep a reference of itself in the main chain:

• Collection address in L2. E.g: 0x2dac71c8c8a4b9547b53c1e1838152ca3277ce76

• Token Id in L2. E.g: 1

• Token URI in L2 (URI used for Decentraland and other platforms to know how the token looks like). E.g: https://peer.decentraland.org/lambdas/collections/standard/erc721/0x2dac71c8c8a4b9547b53c1e1838152ca3277ce76/0

This document presents 2 alternatives on how to manage the collections between L1 & L2.

Alternatives

Alternative 1: Exact Collections' replication

Collections will be created through a Collection factory by users.

Collections in L1 will have the same address and the tokens will have the same id that they have in L2.

For example, if a user has the token with id 1 for the collection 0x326923D43226d9824aab694A3C1C566FeDa50AEb on L2, after transferring the token to L1, he will have the same token with the same id for the same collection in L1:

# L2:
- L2_Collection_1: 0x326923D43226d9824aab694A3C1C566FeDa50AEb
- token id: 1

- L2_Collection_2: 0x5B02123189F7F9251b5E57c390695c0d3B46e640
- token id: 1

# L1:
- L1_Collection_1: 0x326923D43226d9824aab694A3C1C566FeDa50AEb
- token id: 1

- L1_Collection_2: 0x5B02123189F7F9251b5E57c390695c0d3B46e640
- token id: 1

L2 to L1

L1 to L2

Alternative 2: Minimalist Collection replication

Collections will be created through a Collection factory by users.

Collections in L2 will be represented by a sole and unique collection in L1. The id of each token must be unique inside a collection. To avoid token ids collision, the id of each token will be the result of applying a hash function to the original token data.

For example, iif a user has the token with id 1 for the collection 0x326923D43226d9824aab694A3C1C566FeDa50AEb and the token id 1 for the collection 0x5B02123189F7F9251b5E57c390695c0d3B46e640 on L2, after transferring the token to L1, he will have a token id: hash(0x326923D43226d9824aab694A3C1C566FeDa50AEb, 1) and the token id: hash(0x5B02123189F7F9251b5E57c390695c0d3B46e640, 1) for the collection 0xF2a7755CFC27cedcb2BB9C65bf7B7dB380B54d63:

# L2:
- L2_Collection_1: 0x326923D43226d9824aab694A3C1C566FeDa50AEb
- token id: 1

- L2_Collection_2: 0x5B02123189F7F9251b5E57c390695c0d3B46e640
- token id: 1

- L2_Collection_2: 0x5B02123189F7F9251b5E57c390695c0d3B46e640
- token id: 2

# L1:
- L1_Collection: 0xF2a7755CFC27cedcb2BB9C65bf7B7dB380B54d63
- token id: hash(0x326923D43226d9824aab694A3C1C566FeDa50AEb, 1)

- L1_Collection: 0xF2a7755CFC27cedcb2BB9C65bf7B7dB380B54d63
- token id: hash(0x5B02123189F7F9251b5E57c390695c0d3B46e640, 1)

- L1_Collection: 0xF2a7755CFC27cedcb2BB9C65bf7B7dB380B54d63
- token id: hash(0x5B02123189F7F9251b5E57c390695c0d3B46e640, 2)

L2 to L1

L1 to L2

Decision Outcome

Alternative 1

Pros

• N/A

Cons

• Moving the first token from a collection to L1, involves creating a contract using the factory (gas cost).

Implications

• Keep the same address and token ids between layers.

• Users will need to send a transaction for each collection to authorize the usage of tokens.

• Third party marketplaces (OpenSea) will not know without any effort if the contract is an official Decentraland collection in L1.

Alternative 2 ✅

Pros

• Users will need to send only one transaction per marketplace to authorize the usage of tokens.

• We can use the unique collection as a valid and the official one for Decentraland in L1.

• Automatic and instant availability in marketplaces with the whitelisted collection.

• Fewer moving parts

Cons

• N/A

Implications

• Collection addresses and token Ids will not be the same in L2 and L1.

Open questions

• Do the token URI changes in L2?

  Token URI of L2 is stored in the main collection in L1

OpenSea (mainnet): opensea.com/mainnet/tokens/{collection_l1}/{hash(collection_l1_1, token)}
OpenSea (L2): opensea.com/matic/tokens/{collection_l2_1}/{token}

  # L2
  collection_l2_1.tokenURI(token_1) = https://peer.decentraland.org/collection_l2_1/token_1
  mapping(tokenId => string) tokenURI

  # L1
  collection_l1.tokenURI(hash(collection_l2_1, token_1)) = https://peer.decentraland.org/collection_l2_1/token_1

  mapping(tokenId => string) tokenURI

• Alt 1. Is it necessary to burn the token when L1->L2?

  It could be not done. It is a common practice.

• Alt 1. We could have the same collection address in L2 and L1

  That was the idea.

• How do we validate allowed/denied items when moving from L2 to L1?

  Validate if the collection was created by factory.

  TBD.

• How do we prevent abuse on meta-transactions paid by DCL?

  .

• What do we do if Matic is no longer viable or moving to another chain?

  We can restore the state from a blockchain snapshot and copy the contracts.

  Users may need to manually send the tokens as a result of the migration.

  There are coordination risks with third parties (open sea selling items in the middle of the migration).

  Enforce pause mechanisms? Upgradable contracts?

• Who pays the tx fees when L2->L1?

  As it is today, the user pays the TX.

• How does the approval flow affect any of the options in L2?

  If DAO is in L2 and it is cheap it would be good to vote everything.

  Reviewers will have to review several orders of magnitude of collections in L2

Participants

• Esteban Ordano
• Ignacio Mazzara
• Marcelo Alaniz
• Nicolas Santangelo
• Juan Cazala
• Agustin Mendez

Date: 2020-10-13

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