Send an Infura ITX meta-transaction

This tutorial walks you through signing a meta-transaction with Quorum Key Manager (QKM) and sending it to Infura Transactions (ITX). This tutorial is an extension of the Connect to an Infura endpoint tutorial and uses the Rinkeby testnet.

Prerequisites

Follow steps 1 to 5 in the Connect to an Infura endpoint tutorial. This gives you an Ethereum account with a new address.

Steps

1. Fund your Ethereum account. For example, you can go to the Rinkeby faucet and follow the instructions there. You can use Etherscan to check that the faucet gave you ETH.

2. Deposit ETH into the Infura deposit contract using QKM infura-node. The following example uses the sample deposit contract 0x015C7C7A7D65bbdb117C573007219107BD7486f9:

   curl HTTP request

   curl --location --request POST 'https://localhost:8080/nodes/infura-node' \
       --header 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW4tdXNlcg==' \
       --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
       --data-raw '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_sendTransaction",
           "params":[
               {"from": "<MY_ETH_ACCOUNT_ADDRESS>",
               "to": "0x015C7C7A7D65bbdb117C573007219107BD7486f9",
               "gas": "0x65000",
               "gasPrice": "0x1000000000",
               "value": "0x1000000000000000"}
               ], "id":3
           }
           '

   JSON result

   {
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "result": "0xff1bd105d7254789b6fc5e18639e2395068108d66bcfe728e5f792295b7526be",
       "error": null,
       "id": 3
   }

   The response yields the transaction hash for the successful deposit. You can use Etherscan to check that the deposit went through:

   

3. Build a message to be sent to a test contract. In this example, the message is Hello world!, 6l20 was here, which translates to the following Ethereum message:

   0xf15da7290000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001b48656c6c6f20776f726c64212c20366c32302077617320686572650000000000

   The hash of the Ethereum message is:

   bf11b3f509e51cbb52070358c5bfadd9047ee9750e865f8f1b1ad125df65e853

4. Use QKM to sign the message hash, replacing <MY_ETH_ACCOUNT_ADDRESS> with your Ethereum account address:

   curl --location --request POST 'https://localhost:8080/stores/eth-accounts/ethereum/<MY_ETH_ACCOUNT_ADDRESS>/sign-message' \
       --header 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW4tdXNlcg==' \
       --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
       --data-raw '{
           "message": "0xbf11b3f509e51cbb52070358c5bfadd9047ee9750e865f8f1b1ad125df65e853"
       }'

   This gives you a valid signature, such as:

   0xd4a7151261d815cd2720632b9e9949fd141e5059321bb8f23e621a944dd1081533acef9d1a318b3b60c2815385ba7e3ca59adee6490113c5a71913735acbeb8b1c

5. Send the message using ITX, replacing <YOUR_QKM_SIGNATURE> with the signature from the previous step. In this example, the message is sent to the address 0x6663184b3521bF1896Ba6e1E776AB94c317204B6:

   curl HTTP request

   curl --location --request POST 'https://rinkeby.infura.io/v3/d23bcbc0d01e422b81fb118544fbd7af' \
       --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
       --data-raw '{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "relay_sendTransaction",
           "params": [
               {
                   "to": "0x6663184b3521bF1896Ba6e1E776AB94c317204B6",
                   "data": "0xf15da7290000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001b48656c6c6f20776f726c64212c20366c32302077617320686572650000000000",
                   "gas": "100000",
                   "schedule": "fast"
               }, "<YOUR_QKM_SIGNATURE>"
           ], "id": 5
       }'

   JSON result

   {
     "jsonrpc": "2.0",
     "id": 5,
     "result": {
       "relayTransactionHash": "0xbf11b3f509e51cbb52070358c5bfadd9047ee9750e865f8f1b1ad125df65e853"
     }
   }

6. Check that the transaction has been mined. The Infura relay_transactionHashes method doesn't translate directly to Ethereum transaction hashes, so you must use the Infura relay_getTransactionStatus method to get the Ethereum transaction hash:

   curl HTTP request

   curl --location --request POST 'https://rinkeby.infura.io/v3/d23bcbc0d01e422b81fb118544fbd7af' \
       --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
       --data-raw '{
           "id": 7,
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "relay_getTransactionStatus",
           "params": [
               "0xbf11b3f509e51cbb52070358c5bfadd9047ee9750e865f8f1b1ad125df65e853"
           ]
       }'

   JSON result

   {
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 7,
       "result": {
           "broadcasts": [
               {
                   "broadcastTime": "2021-11-22T21:54:34.993Z",
                   "confirmations": 2642,
                   "ethTxHash": "0x201722d7bb647ff94bb6f9c43aa4ad2c0eb2a6d808c04cf2cff8f207bd794d74",
                   "gasPrice": "10420000100"
               }
           ],
           "receivedTime": "2021-11-22T21:54:30.606Z"
       }
   }

   Using the ethTxHash result as the transaction hash, you can go to https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/<ethTxHash>#eventlog to validate that your message is found and the transaction has been properly signed and relayed.

   

You can find more information about sending meta-transactions in the ITX samples repository.