DXvote

DXdao recognizes the need to adapt and build new systems that reach consensus in a scalable, decentralized and effective way. Consensus is not an end, but a process.

DXdao Manifesto https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmfGgQYwL4ZrXLVshYuwH2WHeSvPFQCDXeYTzPPFReCJqJ

With the requirements mentioned above, DXdao built DXvote, an application that, instead of trusting external and centralized services commonly used by other dapps, DXvote brings complete control and maintenance responsibilities to the DXdao members. This considerable responsibility brings the decentralized freedom that DXdao needs.

Versions

Stable Release

Hosted in https://dxvote.eth.link/ and under control of dxdao.

Release Candidate

Source code of master branch built and hosted on IPFS in https://dxvote.dev/ and under control of DXgovernance code owners.

Developer Version

Source code of develop branch built and hosted on IPFS in https://develop.dxvote.dev/ and under control of DXgovernance developers.

Maintenance

As we mentioned before, the maintenance of the dapp is in charge of the users of it; this does not mean that they have to work full time to make the DAO work; truth be told, the maintenance of the application is not complicated. The application gets all the necessary configuration information from a single file (config file); inside the file, all the cache, contracts, and dapp information are stored. This file lets the dapp know which URL should fetch the cache hosted in IPFS for each network.

All maintenance actions are executed in the blockchain network through transactions; this is extremely helpful to refund the maintenance cost instantly and provide an economic incentive to those who maintain the dapp.

Cache

To update the cache, a script must be executed; this script will fetch and index all the necessary information to be served in the dapp when it starts, so the dapp will only need to fetch the remaining information to the last block.

Example: If the dapp is used in mainnet and the last block number is 11 million, and the cache file has all the data till block number 10 million, the application will get all the remaining data between block number 10 million and 11 million before starting, once it finishes it will begin to the dapp.

Pros and Cons: The big pro is that there won't be loading times between actions while the user is using the dapp; all efforts seem to be instant, and they are because the information is already there. The Con in this approach is that if the cache is not updated often (days or weeks, depending on the network), it can cause low loading times when you open the application for the first time.

The cache script will gather all immutable information from the ethereum networks supported and save all of it in cache files uploaded in IPFS. This script is ran

To understand a bit better what the script will do you can see src/services/cacheService.ts.

Configuration

The configuration is even easier than the cache; it is just one file that stores all the smart contract addresses, the tokens to be used, and the proposal templates and the calls recommended for the new proposal.

Each network in the config file has a token array, recommended calls array, and templates array; if you want to add new tokens, templates, and recommended calls to the dapp, add them in the config file. You only change the file when you want to change the values mentioned before.

Install

Be sure you are using correct node version listed in ./package.json (engines.node)

nvm use

Install all dependencies with yarn.

yarn

Development

The development script will start a local hardhat node, deploy all dxdao contracts with local development configuration and start the dapp with the development configuration in the port 3000.

yarn dev

To understand a bit better what the script will do you can see scripts/dev.sh and scripts/deployDevContracts.ts.

Start

The script will start the dapp with the production configuration locally on port 8080 serving the folder build after running the production build.

yarn start

Build

The script build the dapp with the production configuration and save it in the build folder.

yarn build