Upgrading a Liquidity Pool

This guide outlines how to upgrade a liquidity pool to the latest version

For ERC-20 Tokens, we have created a smart contract that can be used to upgrade a Bancor liquidity pool in a single atomic action. All smart contract functions are public and all upgrades are opt-in. We highly recommend you upgrade your pools regularly for security reasons, and to support any other product improvements that could lead to gas cost reduction, etc.

New pool versions will be announced in the Bancor Developers Telegram Group.

Note that only the current owner of a pool will be able to upgrade the contract.

Upgrading New Pools

Newer versions of liquidity pools have built-in support for upgrading and they can be upgraded using a quick two-step process.

Step #1: Execute the Upgrade

First, you'll need to find your current Converter contract.

• Navigate to your Pool Token contract on Etherscan

• Under the Read Contract tab (under the Contract tab), find the value of the owner property. This is your converter address

• Click the converter address to navigate to it

• Find the Write Contract section (under the Contract tab)

• Look for the upgrade function - if the function doesn't exist, it means the pool is still using an older version - follow the Older Pools upgrade process

• Execute the upgrade function

• Click the View Transaction button to open it in a new tab and wait for it to complete

Step #2: Accept Ownership

At this stage, you'll need to accept the ownership over the new converter.

First, let's find the address of the new converter.

• On the completed transaction page, you'll notice there are token transfers from the old converter to a new address

• Click the new address and it will navigate to the new converter

With the new converter address, open a new Etherscan Write Contract (under the Contract) tab) section.

• Execute the acceptOwnership function

Done!

Upgrading Older Pools

Step #1: Transfer Ownership

First, you'll need to find your current Converter contract address.

• Navigate to your Pool Token contract on Etherscan

• Under the Read Contract tab, find the return value under the owner function. This is your converter address

Next, you'll need to find the current address of the ConverterUpgrader contract.

• Navigate to our ContractRegistry contract here

• Enter 0x42616e636f72436f6e7665727465725570677261646572 in the getAddress function to find the Upgrader address. This input is the bytes32 representation of "BancorConverterUpgrader". Save this returned address for Step #2.

Finally, navigate to your Converter contract on Etherscan and find the WriteContract section.

• Execute the transferOwnership function with the following parameter:

  • _newOwner: This is the address of the ConverterUpgrader contract you found above

This step transfers ownership of the contract briefly to Bancor in order to run the upgrade process.

Step #2: Execute the Upgrade

Rest assured that all the token weight, pool balance and conversion fee details will remain the same post-upgrade. Additionally, your converter will experience zero downtime. Your users will not be affected in any way.

• Navigate to the Etherscan Write Contract page of the ConverterUpgrader. This is the addresses you queried for in the previous step.

• Execute the upgradeOld function with the following parameters:

  • _converter: This is your converter's old address, i.e., the address you just transferred ownership of.

  • _version: 0x0

Step #3: Accept Ownership

At this stage, you'll need to accept the ownership over the new converter from the Smart Contract.

First, let's find the address of your new converter.

• On the ConverterUpgrader Etherscan page, navigate to the Events tab

• You should see the ConverterUpgrade event from your recent transaction (if you're unsure which belongs to you, find the log with a topic1 value that includes your old converter address

• Your new address is in topic2 in the event log. To extract the address currently from the topic value, copy the rightmost 40 characters and add "0x" to the beginning

With the new converter address, open a new Etherscan Write Contract view.

• Execute the acceptOwnership function

Done!