When using Ownable, the owner of the contract is always the null address. pragma solidity ^0.5.0; import "@openzeppelin/contracts/ownership/Ownable.sol"; contract Tester is Ownable { function sayHi() public view returns(string memory) { return "hi"; } } Then deploy it to my local…

Hi @Chrissie , Sorry to hear that you got stuck with this. To learn more on using OpenZeppelin Contracts and initializing with upgradeable contracts I would recommend reading: Linking OpenZeppelin contracts and Writing upgradeable contracts The key points in this case are: We need to use @openze…

Hi @Chrissie , I wanted to check that you are no longer stuck on this?

Hi Andrew, You were absolutely right, it was about the difference between @openzeppelin/contracts-ethereum-package and @openzeppelin/contracts. Maybe we can clarify this in some way, because the first Google result on openzeppelin upgradeable ownable results in https://openzeppelin.com/contracts/ …

Hi @Chrissie , It would be good to improve this experience to save other community members from what you went through. Where would you have expected to see a note on the upgradeable version, so that we can look to add one there. Linking the Contracts Ethereum Package OpenZeppelin SDK documentation…

Hey @Chrissie ! Starting with 2.7 RC , the OpenZeppelin CLI will warn if you try to use the vanilla @openzeppelin/contracts instead of @openzeppelin/contracts-ethereum-package. This is temporary though, as we are working on unifying both of them . Give the new RC a try and let us know what you think!

Ownable contract owner is always the 0 address

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Ownable contract owner is always the 0 address

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