Analyze and estimate the IOTA EVM integration

[TheDivic]

What?

We need to estimate are we able to integrate IOTA EVM and how long it's gonna take.

Why?

While it's an EVM, it's not any standard stack like OP, Orbit etc. So if we have any concerns we should raise them before we sign the deal. Nishil needs to know this.

📖 Resources

• Slack thread
• Getting started
• Faucet

[TheDivic]

Currently the biggest problem seems to be this statement from their docs:

There is no guaranteed block time. A new EVM "block" will be created only when an ISC block is created, and ISC does not enforce an average block time. This means that block times are variable; a new block will be created as soon as needed.

I asked the team and they said that a new block is created only when there's a new tx and we shouldn't rely on block times but on the ERC-6372 time module. Everything that requires a "time measurement" will need to use this.

[TheDivic]

@arcticfloyd1984 said we had a similar issue with Avax Subnets and we should do this on the PM service:

(https://biconomyworkspace.slack.com/archives/C07L515N1HA/p1725547899487159)
Please add this in the paymaster service: https://github.com/bcnmy/paymaster-service/commit/23809a7b2b2264d0b50cae8c13d119d514b4cb84