Steward is a key piece of the Sommelier system. It is a side-car process that connects the Sommelier chain to the outside world. It provides an API for Strategy Providers to update Cellars through the Sommelier validator set based on off-chain calculations. Additionally, it subsumes the functionality of gorc for managing the Gravity bridge Orchestrator, and provides developer tools and features for developing and testing Cellars.
It can run as a voter in the Cosmos Sommelier protocol or in test mode to directly interact with Ethereum contracts as a single signer.
It integrates the full functionality of Gorc for operating as an orchestrator and relayer of Gravity bridge messages between the Ethereum and Cosmos chains.
Steward is built with the Abscissa app micro-framework.
Steward is responsible for running the Relayer, which handles relaying Cosmos transactions to Ethereum, and the Orchestrator, which enables the co-processing of Ethereum transactions on Sommelier. Steward runs the Orchestrator so that Sommelier can manage Cellars on Ethereum.
Steward runs on every Validator in the Sommelier Validator set. It runs a server to which Strategy Providers (SPs) send requests whenever they determine that the market has changed enough to warrant an update to the Cellar position. The request payload contains everything needed to make a cork: a signed combination of a cellar address and an ABI encoded contract call. When Steward receives a submission from the SP, it validates the target cellar address, builds a cork, signs it with the delegate key, and submits it to the Cork module on chain, where it will be bridged to the target Cellar contract if a consensus of validators submit the same cork.
Steward provides a suite of utility functions for interacting with Sommelier, the Gravity bridge, and Cellar contracts directly.
Please refer to the Steward for Validators document.
If you want to test and PR changes to Steward to support your Cellar, or you just want to include Steward in your model testing against an existing Cellar, you can use Steward's test mode. This mode will run a gRPC server just like in production, but without the Sommelier chain and gravity bridge. Instead, Steward will send function calls directly to the target Cellar contract.
The developer workflow for this mode is still being refined and documentation is forthcoming.
Below is a list of the Steward's subcommands:
| Subcommand | Description |
|---|---|
| cosmos-to-eth | This command sends Cosmos to the Eth chain |
| deploy | Provides tools for contract deployment |
| eth-to-cosmos | Command to Send Ethereum to Cosmos |
| help | Help command to get usage information |
| keys | Key management commands for the rebalancer |
| orchestrator | The orchestrator management commands |
| print-config | Command for printing default configurations |
| sign-delegate-key | This command is to sign delegate keys |
| version | Display version information |
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