Local host fork of mainnet, "steal" some test USDC from a whale (cUSDC contract).

minte-usdc.js

// First run Ganache locally with `cUsdc` address unlocked
const Web3 = require('web3');
const web3 = new Web3('http://127.0.0.1:8545');

const usdcAbi = 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const cUsdcMainNetAddress = '0x39AA39c021dfbaE8faC545936693aC917d5E7563';

let cUsdcContract;
let accounts;

web3.eth.getAccounts().then((ganacheAccounts) => {
  accounts = ganacheAccounts;

  cUsdcContract = new web3.eth.Contract(usdcAbi, cUsdcMainNetAddress);

  // 500 USDC
  const numbUsdcToMint = (500 * 1e6).toString();

  return cUsdcContract.methods.transfer(accounts[0], numbUsdcToMint).send({ 
    from: cUsdcMainNetAddress,
    gasPrice: web3.utils.toHex(0),
    gas: 3000000
  });

}).then((result) => {

  console.log('USDC steal success');
  return cUsdcContract.methods.balanceOf(accounts[0]).call();
}).then((balanceOf) => {
  const usdc = +balanceOf / 1e6;
  console.log('USDC amount in first Ganache account wallet:', usdc);
}).catch((err) => {
  console.error(err);
});

I was not really expecting a reply to my comment on your gist 2 years ago and thank you for taking a look.

I tried to set baseFeePerGas however, since the contract address has 0 ETH, it won't work either as. the cUSDC contract holds 0 ETH.

Also I found this issue in Ganache: trufflesuite/ganache#1573

Maybe this will work in London fork after they resolved the issue above.

Ah ok that makes sense. I've switched over to hardhat since ganache was giving me several issues and they were not getting fixed timely. With hardhat you can set a config parameter initialBaseFeePerGas to 0 and also gasPrice to 0 and it makes this work.

thanks for the tip on hardhat :)

I looked into it and since I only need a local blockchain instead of full suite of dev solutions, I used Ganache for its simplicity, but maybe I will give hardhat another go.