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Verification
Overview
This page will go over how to verify a pool on Etherscan. The process works for other networks' block explorer websites like Polygonscan, but for the sake of simplicity, the article will refer to these sites only as "Etherscan". Be aware that other block explorers will require their own API Key.
The pool verification process has two main parts:
1.Getting a pool's constructor arguments
2.Sending data to Etherscan
1. Getting Constructor Arguments
There are two techniques for getting the constructor arguments; you can generate them with balpy, or you can grab them from Tenderly. 
balpy is generally faster but requires changing a few parameters and running a Python script from a terminal
Tenderly is a bit slower but may be a bit friendlier if you're not as comfortable in a command line environment
Generating With balpy
The poolVerification.py script generates the encoded constructor arguments as well as the rest of the command you'll need to execute in Step 2 below. To use this script for your pool, you'll need to set arguments in the script: network, poolId, and creationHash. 
Set the network to the network your pool is deployed on. This could be mainnet for Ethereum mainnet, kovan, rinkeby, goerli, or polygon. At the time of writing, arbiscan does not yet support contract verification. 
Each pool has a unique poolId. If you don't know where to find a poolId, check out this note about poolIds. 
The pool's creationHash is optional for most networks, but currently mandatory for polygon. (The polygonscan API does not currently support the necessary txlistinternal query to fetch this hash.)
Mainnet Example Inputs
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network = "mainnet"
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poolId = "0x5c6ee304399dbdb9c8ef030ab642b10820db8f56000200000000000000000014"
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creationHash = None;
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Polygon Example Inputs
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network = "polygon"
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poolId = "0x0d34e5dd4d8f043557145598e4e2dc286b35fd4f000000000000000000000068"
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creationHash = "0x18c7e1c9235c6e93878e55a87ed249f9d0ceb9d12ee584794e92f80f7645686d";
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Kovan Example Output
yarn hardhat verify-contract --id 20210418-weighted-pool --name WeightedPool --address 0x6dF50E37A6aEfB9024a7284EF1C9e1E8e7c4F7b8 --network kovan --key NOTSHARINGMYETHERSCANAPIKEYSORRY --args 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
There have been a few isolated cases where the arguments balpy generated did not successfully verify the pool. If you get a failure when sending to Etherscan, try again, or try getting arguments from Tenderly.
If you've successfully generated the constructor arguments with balpy, you can continue to Step 2; you do not need to do anything on Tenderly.
Pulling Data From Tenderly
To start off in Tenderly, you'll need the poolId for your pool. If you don't know where to find a poolId, check out this note about poolIds. Once you have your poolId, you'll need to extract the pool address, which is the first 42 characters of the id. 
Example:
0x5c6ee304399dbdb9c8ef030ab642b10820db8f56000200000000000000000014 (id)
0x5c6ee304399dbdb9c8ef030ab642b10820db8f56 (address)
Go to the Etherscan (or similar) page for your pool. In this example, it would be:
​https://etherscan.io/address/0x5c6ee304399dbdb9c8ef030ab642b10820db8f56​
Click on the Internal Txns tab:
The first (and likely only) transaction under Parent Txn Hash will be the one that deployed the pool. Click on the transaction -- it will take you to the transaction page. Copy the transaction hash from the page:
Go to Tenderly's website and paste your transaction hash in the search box.
In the [CREATE] row, click on View in Debugger
Scroll to the bottom of the [INPUT] field 
Search for the following string:
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020000000000000000000000000ba12222222228d8ba445958a75a0704d566bf2c8
Copy from the beginning of that string to the end of the [INPUT], excluding the trailing ".
Paste that string in a text editor for now -- we're ready to move onto the next step!
Example string:
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
2. Sending Data to Etherscan
Requirements:
A local copy of the Balancer V2 Monorepo​
An RPC (Infura, Alchemy, local RPC, etc.)
​Etherscan API Key (free Etherscan account required)
A private key*
*This private key should not hold any tokens; it is used solely as an identifier. Generate a throwaway account. Never put a real key in a file - even for a throwaway account - especially if it might get committed to a public repository!
In your local copy of the Balancer V2 Monorepo, go to the pkg/deployments directory, and open the hardhat.config.ts file:
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cd pkg/deployments
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<your_favorite_editor> hardhat.config.ts
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At the bottom of the file, you'll see:
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export default {
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  mocha: {
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    timeout: 40000,
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  },
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};
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Edit the file for your given network, RPC url, and private key. DO NOT PUT YOUR KEY IN THE FILE! Use an environment variable instead!
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mocha: {
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  timeout: 40000,
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},
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networks: {
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  mainnet: {
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    url: https://mainnet.infura.io/v3/${process.env.INFURA_KEY},
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      accounts: [`0x${process.env.PRIVATE_KEY}`],
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    },
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  },
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},
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If you generated your command with balpy, you should be ready to execute that now (Skip to executing). If you pulled data from Tenderly, we just need to construct the rest of the command.
The rest of the command that we need to fill in is:
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yarn hardhat verify-contract
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  --id <task-id>
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  --name <contract-name>
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  --address <pool-address>
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  --network <network>
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  --key <etherscan-api-key>
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  --args <abi-encoded-constructor-arguments>  
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task-id and contract-name
These depend on the type of pool you're verifying. 
Task ID (--id argument)
Contract name(s) (--name argument)
20210418-weighted-pool
WeightedPool, WeightedPool2Tokens
20210624-stable-pool
StablePool
20210721-liquidity-bootstrapping-pool
LiquidityBootstrappingPool
20210727-meta-stable-pool
MetaStablePool
20210907-investment-pool
InvestmentPool
pool-address
This is the address of the pool whose contract you are verifying. It is not your address.
network
This is the network on which you are verifying your pool. If you are attempting to verify a pool on Ethereum, use "mainnet" as shown in the sample hardhat.config.ts file.
etherscan-api-key
This is your Etherscan API key, obviously.
abi-encoded-constructor-arguments
This is the long string of bytecode you saved earlier from Tenderly.
Putting It All Together...
For the example pool in the Tenderly example, the command would look like:
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yarn hardhat verify-contract
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  --id 20210418-weighted-pool
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  --name WeightedPool2Tokens
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  --address 0x5c6ee304399dbdb9c8ef030ab642b10820db8f56
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  --network mainnet
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  --key NOTSHARINGMYETHERSCANAPIKEYSORRY
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  --args 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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  20000000000000000000000000ba12222222228d8ba445958a75a0704d566bf2c8000
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  000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000018000000000
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  000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001c00000000000000
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  00000000000ba100000625a3754423978a60c9317c58a424e3d000000000000000000
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  000000c02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc200000000000000000000000
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  00000000000000000000000000b1a2bc2ec5000000000000000000000000000000000
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  0000000000000000000002c68af0bb140000000000000000000000000000000000000
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  0000000000000000005543df729c00000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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  0000000000000000000072aefe0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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  000000000000000278d00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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  0000000000000001000000000000000000000000ba1ba1ba1ba1ba1ba1ba1ba1ba1ba
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  1ba1ba1ba1b0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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  00001742616c616e6365722038302042414c203230205745544800000000000000000
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  0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e422d
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  383042414c2d323057455448000000000000000000000000000000000000  
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Executing Command
From the top level of balancer-v2-monorepo:
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cd /path/to/balancer-v2-monorepo
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​
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# you should only need to do this part once
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yarn
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yarn build
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yarn install
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​
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# go back to deployments
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cd pkg/deployments 
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and finally run:
yarn hardhat verify-contract --id 20210418-weighted-pool --name WeightedPool2Tokens --address 0x5c6ee304399dbdb9c8ef030ab642b10820db8f56 --network mainnet --key NOTSHARINGMYETHERSCANAPIKEYSORRY --args 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