How to Change Storage Values on a Fork

If you want to simulate a transaction in a very specific state of the involved contract(s), there are two ways to do it.

• You can execute several transactions to get them in the desired state.
• Alternatively, you can plant a specific value into one or more storage slots of your smart contract(s).

If you decide to go with the second option, you need to use tenderly_setStorageAt JSON-RPC call.

Here’s an example. You can play around with it using this Tenderly Sandbox.

...
const forkRpcUrl = ...;
 
const provider = new ethers.providers.JsonRpcProvider(forkRpcUrl);
const two32BHexStr = ethers.utils.hexZeroPad(ethers.utils.hexValue(2), 32);
const fiftyFive32BHexStr = ethers.utils.hexZeroPad(ethers.utils.hexValue(55), 32);
 
await provider.send("tenderly_setStorageAt", [
  // the contract address
  contractAddress,
  two32BHexStr,
  fiftyFive32BHexStr,
]);
 
const newValue = await fork.provider.getStorageAt(greeter.address, 2);

The first parameter is the contract address, the second is the storage slot, and the third is the value we want to set. The last two parameters have to be a string representation of a 32-byte number.