Transaction building migration

[bladyjoker]

https://github.com/mlabs-haskell/bot-plutus-interface is deprecated, and COOP needs to migrate to a different PAB solution.

Reproducing transaction building logic is not necessarily difficult, however, having a stable and robust test suite as we do currently have with Plutip might need more work.

Candidates:

• https://github.com/geniusyield/atlas emerged as the most modern and robust solution that’s being adopted throughout the Haskell community for backend based transaction building.
  • Transaction metadata feature is missing Add a way to add transaction metadata geniusyield/atlas#144
  • However there's a patch implementing it at eddiemundo/atlas@5d2dafa
• https://github.com/Plutonomicon/cardano-transaction-lib is a Purescript/Nodejs based tool that we can definitely leverage and has all the features we need.

Concretely, this work is about reworking the coop-pab component in the repo. Transaction building is abstracted behind the TxBuilder gRPC service https://github.com/mlabs-haskell/cardano-open-oracle-protocol/blob/main/coop-proto/tx-builder-service.proto. This means switching implementations would not in theory affect its use sites (concretely coop-publisher).

[bladyjoker]

The question of BPI revival

I spent some time trying to upgrade our key dependency which is https://github.com/mlabs-haskell/bot-plutus-interface. This feels like a game of whac-a-mole and chess and it's uncertain how much effort will it require and if at all we will emerge victorious in a reasonable amount of time.

My strong suggestion is to completely remove BPI as a dependency and move to either CTL or Atlas. I'm currently leaning more towards CTL as there's the least unknowns associated with it.