Hedera Schedule Service (HSS) System Contract

The Hedera Schedule Service system contract at 0x16b exposes functions for creating and managing scheduled transactions from within Solidity. It supports:

• HIP-755: Authorizing and signing schedules from contracts
• HIP-756: Scheduling native HTS token creation (createFungibleToken, createNonFungibleToken, etc.)
• HIP-1215: Generalized scheduled contract calls — schedule arbitrary calls to any contract (or self) for DeFi automation, vesting, DAO operations

Quick Reference

Contract address: 0x16b

Imports:

import {HederaScheduleService} from "@hashgraph/smart-contracts/contracts/system-contracts/hedera-schedule-service/HederaScheduleService.sol";
import {IHRC1215ScheduleFacade} from "@hashgraph/smart-contracts/contracts/system-contracts/hedera-schedule-service/IHRC1215ScheduleFacade.sol";

HederaScheduleService is an abstract contract (like HederaTokenService for HTS). Inherit it to get internal helper functions that handle the low-level calls to 0x16b. HederaResponseCodes is available transitively.

Response codes: SUCCESS = 22 (HederaResponseCodes.SUCCESS). See references/api.md for full function list and Hedera response codes.

Critical: Inheritance Pattern

IHederaScheduleService is an empty interface. Functions are defined in IHRC755, IHRC756, IHRC1215 and wrapped as internal helpers in HederaScheduleService. Your contract must inherit HederaScheduleService:

contract MyScheduler is HederaScheduleService {
    error ScheduleFailed();

    function doSchedule() external {
        (int64 rc, address scheduleAddr) = scheduleCall(target, expiry, gasLimit, 0, data);
        if (rc != HederaResponseCodes.SUCCESS) revert ScheduleFailed();
    }
}

Critical: Non-Reverting Behavior (HIP-1215)

The scheduleCall, scheduleCallWithPayer, and executeCallOnPayerSignature functions do not revert. On failure they return (responseCode, address(0)). Always check:

error ScheduleFailed();

(int64 rc, address scheduleAddr) = scheduleCall(target, expiry, gasLimit, 0, data);
if (rc != HederaResponseCodes.SUCCESS || scheduleAddr == address(0)) {
    revert ScheduleFailed();
}

Capacity and Throttling (HIP-1215)

Scheduled calls are throttled per second. Use hasScheduleCapacity(expirySecond, gasLimit) before scheduling to avoid SCHEDULE_EXPIRY_IS_BUSY:

bool capacity = hasScheduleCapacity(expirySecond, gasLimit);
if (!capacity) {
    // Retry with a later expiry or different gas limit
    // See HIP-1215 findAvailableSecond() pattern for exponential backoff + jitter
}

Common Concepts

• Scheduled transaction: Wraps a Hedera transaction (native HTS call or EVM contract call) for deferred execution when signature thresholds are met.
• Payer: Account responsible for paying fees. With scheduleCall, the calling contract is the payer. With scheduleCallWithPayer / executeCallOnPayerSignature, a separate payer can be specified.
• authorizeSchedule: Signs the schedule with the calling contract's key (ContractKey format 0.0.<ContractId>).
• signSchedule: Adds protobuf-encoded signatures from EOAs or other keys.
• Expiration: Schedules that fail to collect all required signatures before expirySecond are automatically removed from the network.

Usage Patterns

Schedule Native Token Creation (HIP-756)

Note: The payer must have sufficient HBAR when the schedule executes (for the token creation fee).

import {HederaScheduleService} from "@hashgraph/smart-contracts/contracts/system-contracts/hedera-schedule-service/HederaScheduleService.sol";
import {IHederaTokenService} from "@hashgraph/smart-contracts/contracts/system-contracts/hedera-token-service/IHederaTokenService.sol";

contract ScheduledTokenCreator is HederaScheduleService {
    error FailToSchedule();

    function scheduleTokenCreate(
        IHederaTokenService.HederaToken memory token,
        int64 initialSupply,
        int32 decimals,
        address payer
    ) external returns (address scheduleAddr) {
        bytes memory callData = abi.encodeCall(
            IHederaTokenService.createFungibleToken,
            (token, initialSupply, decimals)
        );
        int64 rc;
        (rc, scheduleAddr) = scheduleNative(
            address(0x167), callData, payer
        );
        if (rc != HederaResponseCodes.SUCCESS) revert FailToSchedule();
    }
}

Schedule Arbitrary Contract Call (HIP-1215)

import {HederaScheduleService} from "@hashgraph/smart-contracts/contracts/system-contracts/hedera-schedule-service/HederaScheduleService.sol";

contract Scheduler is HederaScheduleService {
    error FailToSchedule();
    event ScheduleCreated(address);

    function scheduleFutureCall(
        address target,
        uint256 expirySecond,
        uint256 gasLimit,
        bytes memory callData
    ) external returns (address scheduleAddr) {
        if (!hasScheduleCapacity(expirySecond, gasLimit)) revert FailToSchedule();

        int64 rc;
        (rc, scheduleAddr) = scheduleCall(
            target,
            expirySecond > 0 ? expirySecond : block.timestamp + 5,
            gasLimit,
            0,
            callData
        );
        if (rc != HederaResponseCodes.SUCCESS) {
            revert FailToSchedule();
        }
        emit ScheduleCreated(scheduleAddr);
    }
}

Contract Signs Schedule (HIP-755)

import {HederaScheduleService} from "@hashgraph/smart-contracts/contracts/system-contracts/hedera-schedule-service/HederaScheduleService.sol";

contract ScheduleSigner is HederaScheduleService {
    error FailToAuthorize();
    error FailToSign();

    function signAsContract(address scheduleAddr) external {
        int64 rc = authorizeSchedule(scheduleAddr);
        if (rc != HederaResponseCodes.SUCCESS) revert FailToAuthorize();
    }

    function signWithSignatureMap(address scheduleAddr, bytes memory sigMap) external {
        int64 rc = signSchedule(scheduleAddr, sigMap);
        if (rc != HederaResponseCodes.SUCCESS) revert FailToSign();
    }
}

Delete Schedule

import {HederaScheduleService} from "@hashgraph/smart-contracts/contracts/system-contracts/hedera-schedule-service/HederaScheduleService.sol";
import {IHRC1215ScheduleFacade} from "@hashgraph/smart-contracts/contracts/system-contracts/hedera-schedule-service/IHRC1215ScheduleFacade.sol";

contract ScheduleManager is HederaScheduleService {
    error FailToDeleteSchedule();

    // Option 1: Internal helper (inheriting HederaScheduleService)
    function deleteScheduleExample(address scheduleAddr) external {
        int64 rc = deleteSchedule(scheduleAddr);
        if (rc != HederaResponseCodes.SUCCESS) {
            revert FailToDeleteSchedule();
        }
    }

    // Option 2: Redirect — call deleteSchedule() on the schedule's address
    // (works for contracts and EOAs)
    function deleteScheduleProxy(address scheduleAddr) external {
        int64 rc = IHRC1215ScheduleFacade(scheduleAddr).deleteSchedule();
        if (rc != HederaResponseCodes.SUCCESS) {
            revert FailToDeleteSchedule();
        }
    }
}

Costs

• Schedule transaction fees match HAPI ScheduleCreate, with a 20% markup for system contract usage.
• Includes gas, storage, and consensus fees. Expired transactions incur no extra fees beyond initial scheduling/signature costs.

References

• API Reference: references/api.md — Full function signatures, selectors, and usage notes
• HIP-755: Schedule Service System Contract
• HIP-756: Contract Scheduled Token Create
• HIP-1215: Generalized Scheduled Contract Calls
• Source: hedera-smart-contracts/hedera-schedule-service