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Automatically setup native token on quickstart local networks

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, shell
Domain
blockchain, devops

Research direction

Start with the quickstart local-network startup path and the existing soroban lab token wrap --asset native --source ... --network ... command. Trace how the local network is initialized, then verify that the native asset contract is deployed automatically and the network is ready to use without a manual command.

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Description

What problem does your feature solve?

It's not intuitive that on the local network that the native asset has not been setup with a contract.

On pubnet, testnet, and futurenet the native asset contract is created. It's very easy to get used to that and to just start using it.

On the local network the developer has to create it themselves with:

soroban lab token wrap --asset native --source ... --network ...

I've forgotten several times to create it and it just chews times debugging then realizing and running the command.

What would you like to see?

The native asset contract deployed automatically on quickstart when running the local network, so it's just good to go.

What alternatives are there?

Do nothing. Remind people to create it.

Dominant language
Shell
Stars
224
Forks
237
Avg merge
1d 2h
Merged PRs (30d)
7

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