[PROPOSAL] How to build a Forta bot for your smart contract

[yehia67]

• Content is:
  [x] Coding tutorial
  [ ] Informational content
  [ ] Other (describe)

• Which blockchain protocol is this about?:
  Multichain

• Description (two or three phrases describing what is it about):
  Forta is a monitor bot to detect threads on your smart contract. In this tutorial, you will learn how to develop, test, and deploy a bot to keep track of every transaction, block, or triggered event from your smart contract and receive an email as an alert from it.

• Have you published articles in a blog before? If so, please include some links below 👇
  https://medium.com/coinmonks/recycling-system-using-iota-2172ecc7444
  https://medium.com/coinmonks/eco-track-supply-chain-and-recycling-services-using-iota-c2b1de681aac
  https://medium.com/coinmonks/uniswap-fork-web3-with-react-hooks-and-redux-ed407abffbc8

Outline:

1. Introduction:
   - What is a Forta bot?
   - Forta Bot use cases.
2. Initialize your Forta project.
3. Forta package command lines.
4. Detect smart contract activities by transaction, block, or event.
5. Build alert reports with customized data and categories(Crucial, Suspicious, and info).
6. Test your Forta bot.
7. Deploy bot to different blockchains protocols
8. References:

• GitHub repository with the article example.
• Documentation.
• Forta bot examples

[Genesis3800]

Hey @yehia67, thank you for your interest in our developer hub program.
I have passed on your proposal for an internal vote. In the meantime could you please elaborate on your proposal a bit?
Specifically, I would really like to see an article outline/table of contents.

#18

[Genesis3800]

Hey @yehia67 , an update for you. We are really interested in publishing an article on Forta for our blog. We discussed this internally and liked it.
Before approving the issue however, we would really like to see a proposed outline. Could you please update the issue a little?
This will also help you in better fleshing out your article in your mind.

[yehia67]

@Genesis3800 I am happy to hear that 😄 Updated 👍

[Genesis3800]

Thanks for updating the issue @yehia67 , I love the way it looks.
Just one final question- As I understand you will teach people how to use Fortabot to interact with smart contracts, will you write a sample smart contract as an example to demonstrate the bot's use case as part of the article?

[yehia67]

Yes exactly

[yehia67]

It will be a deposit smart contract
If blacklisted addresses deposit it will trigger a critical alert.
If normal deposit will trigger info alert.
If less then 0.0001 will trigger suspicious

[Genesis3800]

Hey @yehia67 , this sounds really cool.
I am changing the issue label to in progress, in other words, your proposal has been accepted.
Best of luck with this article. I look forward to reading your first draft.

[yehia67]

I am so excited🚀