refactor(apps/price_pusher): Use viem instead of web3 for evm pusher (#1829)

Web3 library is not very widely used anymore due to its complex and magical internal design. Some users were reporting issues like strange timeouts or unsupported RPC calls via web3 (and the deprecated HDWalletProvider by truffle that we use). This change refactors the code to use Viem. The experience with Viem is nice: it has strong types and good utilities. The error handling is also very well designed. The downside is that it has a steep learning curve to get it right.

This change refactors the code based on the PR reviews to make it simpler as well.

Lastly the version is bumped as a major release because the behaviour and logs have changed and it might affect production environments. It also signals the users to test it out properly before using it which is good because all the failure cases might not be handled.

Author: ali-bahjati

apps/price_pusher/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@pythnetwork/price-pusher",
-  "version": "7.1.0",
+  "version": "8.0.0-alpha",
   "description": "Pyth Price Pusher",
   "homepage": "https://pyth.network",
   "main": "lib/index.js",
@@ -64,16 +64,13 @@
     "@pythnetwork/pyth-sui-js": "workspace:*",
     "@pythnetwork/solana-utils": "workspace:*",
     "@solana/web3.js": "^1.93.0",
-    "@truffle/hdwallet-provider": "^2.1.3",
     "@types/pino": "^7.0.5",
     "aptos": "^1.8.5",
     "jito-ts": "^3.0.1",
     "joi": "^17.6.0",
     "near-api-js": "^3.0.2",
     "pino": "^9.2.0",
-    "web3": "^1.8.1",
-    "web3-core": "^1.8.1",
-    "web3-eth-contract": "^1.8.1",
+    "viem": "^2.19.4",
     "yaml": "^2.1.1",
     "yargs": "^17.5.1"
   }

apps/price_pusher/src/evm/command.ts

@@ -5,9 +5,12 @@ import * as options from "../options";
 import { readPriceConfigFile } from "../price-config";
 import { PythPriceListener } from "../pyth-price-listener";
 import { Controller } from "../controller";
-import { EvmPriceListener, EvmPricePusher, PythContractFactory } from "./evm";
+import { EvmPriceListener, EvmPricePusher } from "./evm";
 import { getCustomGasStation } from "./custom-gas-station";
 import pino from "pino";
+import { createClient } from "./super-wallet";
+import { createPythContract } from "./pyth-contract";
+import { isWsEndpoint } from "../utils";
 
 export default {
   command: "evm",
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ export default {
     ...options.priceServiceConnectionLogLevel,
     ...options.controllerLogLevel,
   },
-  handler: function (argv: any) {
+  handler: async function (argv: any) {
     // FIXME: type checks for this
     const {
       endpoint,
@@ -121,20 +124,22 @@ export default {
       logger.child({ module: "PythPriceListener" })
     );
 
-    const pythContractFactory = new PythContractFactory(
-      endpoint,
-      mnemonic,
-      pythContractAddress
-    );
+    const client = await createClient(endpoint, mnemonic);
+    const pythContract = createPythContract(client, pythContractAddress);
+
     logger.info(
-      `Pushing updates from wallet address: ${pythContractFactory
-        .createWeb3PayerProvider()
-        .getAddress()}`
+      `Pushing updates from wallet address: ${client.account.address}`
     );
 
+    // It is possible to watch the events in the non-ws endpoints, either by getFilter
+    // or by getLogs, but it is very expensive and our polling mechanism does it
+    // in a more efficient way. So we only do it with ws endpoints.
+    const watchEvents = isWsEndpoint(endpoint);
+
     const evmListener = new EvmPriceListener(
-      pythContractFactory,
+      pythContract,
       priceItems,
+      watchEvents,
       logger.child({ module: "EvmPriceListener" }),
       {
         pollingFrequency,
@@ -148,7 +153,8 @@ export default {
     );
     const evmPusher = new EvmPricePusher(
       priceServiceConnection,
-      pythContractFactory,
+      client,
+      pythContract,
       logger.child({ module: "EvmPricePusher" }),
       overrideGasPriceMultiplier,
       overrideGasPriceMultiplierCap,

apps/price_pusher/src/evm/custom-gas-station.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import Web3 from "web3";
 import {
   CustomGasChainId,
   TxSpeed,
@@ -7,8 +6,9 @@ import {
   customGasChainIds,
 } from "../utils";
 import { Logger } from "pino";
+import { parseGwei } from "viem";
 
-type chainMethods = Record<CustomGasChainId, () => Promise<string | undefined>>;
+type chainMethods = Record<CustomGasChainId, () => Promise<bigint | undefined>>;
 
 export class CustomGasStation {
   private chain: CustomGasChainId;
@@ -29,11 +29,10 @@ export class CustomGasStation {
 
   private async fetchMaticMainnetGasPrice() {
     try {
-      const res = await fetch("https://gasstation-mainnet.matic.network/v2");
+      const res = await fetch("https://gasstation.polygon.technology/v2");
       const jsonRes = await res.json();
       const gasPrice = jsonRes[this.speed].maxFee;
-      const gweiGasPrice = Web3.utils.toWei(gasPrice.toFixed(2), "Gwei");
-      return gweiGasPrice.toString();
+      return parseGwei(gasPrice.toFixed(2));
     } catch (err) {
       this.logger.error(
         err,