This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating and deploying an escrow smart contract on the Celo blockchain. The contract facilitates investments in startups by allowing investors to deposit funds that are held in escrow until certain conditions are met. It provides features such as creating an investment, funding the investment, pausing and resuming the investment, repaying the investment, extending the funding deadline, retrieving investment information, and withdrawing funds.
The tutorial assumes you have a basic understanding of blockchain technology and the Solidity programming language. By following this tutorial, you will learn how to write and deploy a smart contract on the Celo blockchain using the Solidity programming language.
The tutorial will cover the following topics:
- Contract Structure and Variables: Explaining the structure and variables used in the escrow smart contract.
- Modifiers: Understanding the modifiers used to enforce conditions for executing functions.
- Creating an Investment: Implementing the function to create a new investment opportunity.
- Funding an Investment: Allowing investors to fund an existing investment.
- Pausing and Resuming an Investment: Enabling the investor or startup to pause or resume the investment.
- Repaying an Investment: Implementing the functionality to repay the investment to the investor.
- Extending the Funding Deadline: Allowing the startup to extend the funding deadline for an investment.
- Retrieving Investment Information: Adding a function to retrieve information about a specific investment.
- Withdrawing Funds: Enabling the investor to withdraw funds from an investment.
By the end of this tutorial, you will have a solid understanding of how to create and deploy an escrow smart contract on the Celo blockchain, empowering you to develop decentralized finance (DeFi) applications that facilitate secure and transparent investment opportunities.