SHIELD

The shield is a development framework for circom developers, but we plan it for other languages such as CAIRO, SNARKYJS, etc.

The core reason is to provide libraries, plugins, and testing tools to ensure code quality and security.

Circomlib (which is the most popular library to build circom circuits) has over 1800 weekly downloads.

Pre-Requisite

You have to setup the environment before using it and install the following to get started with shield cli.

Windows

• rust
• circom
• nodejs

In future versions, we will provide a script to setup the environment with single command execution.

Linux/Mac

• nodejs

Installation

Install shield globally with npm:

$ npm i -g @xorddotcom/shield

Usage

Getting Started

To create a sample project, run In future versions, we will provide a script to setup the environment with single command execution.

$ shield init

create a JavaScript, TypeScript project, or an empty shield.config.js

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Create an empty shield.config.js
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Compiling your circuits

$ shield compile

Usage: shield compile [options]
compiles the circuits to verifer contracts
Options:
-c, --circuit <value> specific circuit to compile
-h, --help display helpforcommand

Basic configuration

Set up your project with the following minimal shield.config.js at the root.

module.exports={// (optional) solidity version for compiled contracts, defaults to `^0.8.0`solidity: "^0.8.0",circom: {// (optional) Base path for files being read, defaults to `./circuits/`inputBasePath: "./circuits/",// (optional) Base path for files being output, defaults to `./circuits/`outputBasePath: "./build/",// (required) The final ptau file, relative to inputBasePath, from a Phase 1 ceremonyptau: "powersOfTau28_hez_final_10.ptau",// (required) Each object in this array refers to a separate circuitcircuits: [{// (required) The name of the circuitname: "demo",// (optional) Protocol used to build circuits ("groth16" or "plonk"), defaults to "groth16"protocol: "groth16",// (optional) Input path for circuit file, inferred from `name` if unspecifiedcircuit: "demo.circom",// (optional) Output path for zkey file, inferred from `name` if unspecifiedzkey: "demo.zkey",// (optional) Input path for input signal data, inferred from `name` if unspecifiedinput: "input.json",// // (optional) Output path for witness file, inferred from `name` if unspecifiedwitness: "demo.json",},],},};

Your project structure should look like this:

.├──circuits│└──demo.circom└──shield.config.js

Now, you can use shield compile to compile the circuits and output demo_Verifier.sol, demo.zkey,demo.wasm and Verifier contract interface files into their respective directories:

.├──build│└──demo│├──circuit_0000.zkey│├──demo_js││├──demo.wasm││├──generate_witness.js││└──witness_calculator.js│├──demo.r1cs│├──demo.sym│├──demo.zkey│└──verification_key.json├──circuits│├──demo.circom│├──input.json│├──demo.wtns│├──demo.json│└──powersOfTau28_hez_final_10.ptau├──contracts│├──demo_Verifier.sol│└──interfaces│└──IdemoVerifier.sol└──shield.config.js

Debugging your circuits

Debug feature allows you to display the circom circuits logs, input/output signals logs, and the passed/failed Constraints along with signals calculations.

To debug with an error stack trace and generate a witness JSON/Wtns file, run:

$ shield debug

Usage: shield debug [options]
debug (display input/output signals, circuit logs, and passed/failed constraints ) and generate a witness file of the circuit
Options:
-c, --circuit <value> specific circuit to debug
-h, --help display helpforcommand

Example debug logs

Input Signals:
┌───────────┬────────┐
│ (Signals) │ Values │
├───────────┼────────┤
│ c │ '4' │
│ a │ '2' │
│ b │ '2' │
└───────────┴────────┘
No output signal found:
Constraint no 1: passed
=> ((-1)*signal2) * (1*signal3) = ((-1)*signal1)
=> ((-1)*2) * (1*2) = ((-1)*4)
Related signals:
signal2: main.a, value: 2
signal3: main.b, value: 2
signal1: main.c, value: 4

Contribution

For making a contribution refer to CONTRIBUTION.md file.

License

MIT

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