Governance
🏢 Governance platform of the Decentraland DAO
Install / Use
/learn @decentraland/GovernanceREADME
The governance hub for the Decentraland ecosystem. Create and vote on proposals that help shape the future of the metaverse via the Decentraland DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).

Setup
Before you start make sure you have installed:
Node version
use node >= 18
If you are starting from scratch and you don't have Node installed in your computer, we recommend using a Node version manager like nvm to install Node.js and npm instead of the Node installer.
nvm install v18.8.0 will install node version 18 and the corresponding npm version.
NOTE
If you are using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) as your development environment, clone the repository into the WSL filesystem. If you clone it inside the Windows filesystem, the project will not work.
Run npm install to install all the dependencies needed to run the project.
Environment setup
Create a copy of .env.example and name it as .env.development
cp .env.example .env.development
If you are running this project locally you only need to check the following environment variables:
CONNECTION_STRING: make sure it points to a valid database (see how to create one in the 'Database Setup' section)COMMITTEE_ADDRESSES: list of eth addresses separated by,that will be able to enact finished proposalsDISCOURSE_API_KEY: the api key use to publish the proposals on the forumRPC_PROVIDER_URL: the rpc provider to get the latest blockBLOCKNATIVE_API_KEY: api key for blocknative, a polygon tx gas estimation service we use for calculating airdrops gas fees accurately- Snapshot env vars: see snapshot setup
Setup the required voting power to pass
The minimum amount of voting power require to pass a proposal of each type it's defined in these variables, if they are not defined or are not numbers 0 will be used instead
GATSBY_VOTING_POWER_TO_PASS_LINKED_WEARABLES=0
GATSBY_VOTING_POWER_TO_PASS_CATALYST=0
GATSBY_VOTING_POWER_TO_PASS_BAN_NAME=0
GATSBY_VOTING_POWER_TO_PASS_POI=0
GATSBY_VOTING_POWER_TO_PASS_POLL=0
Database setup
Make sure you have Postgres installed and running:
brew install postgresql@14
brew services start postgresql@14
createdb
You can create a DB from scratch, or you can use the import-db.sh script to create a new DB using the development.dump dump.
Importing DB dump
cd scripts/
bash ./import-db.sh USERNAME [DATABASE_NAME] [DUMP_FILE]
If no DATABASE_NAME and DUMP_FILE arguments are given, the script will use the default values and create a governance db using the development.dump dump.
The CONNECTION_STRING should look like this:
postgres://USERNAME:PASSWORD@localhost:5432/governance
(the default password should be postgres)
Creating DB from scratch
To create a DB, run in the terminal
createdb -U YOUR_USER DATABASE_NAME
The default postgres user is postgres or your username, and the default password is postgres.
Use your user and password for the connection string variable, it should look like this:
postgres://YOUR_USER:YOUR_PASSWORD@localhost:5432/DATABASE_NAME
Once you have a CONNECTION_STRING you can set up your database tables using the following command:
npm run migrate up
Snapshot Setup
GATSBY_SNAPSHOT_SPACE: the snapshot space where the proposals will be publishedSNAPSHOT_PRIVATE_KEY,GATSBY_SNAPSHOT_ADDRESS: a pair address/key with permissions to publish at that snapshot space- The configured SNAPSHOT_PROPOSAL_TYPE for the project is 'single-choice', which means each voter may select only one choice. See available voting systems
Creating a Snapshot space
You are going to need to register an ENS name in the network you'll create the space in. Follow instructions on Snapshot.
Strategy
-
DCL Governance uses several strategies:
{ "symbol": "VP (delegated)", "strategies": [ { "name": "erc20-balance-of", "params": { "symbol": "MANA", "address": "0x The address of the token contract on the network you are using", "decimals": 18 } } ], "delegationSpace": "yourEnsName.eth" }{ "symbol": "LAND", "address": "0xf87e31492faf9a91b02ee0deaad50d51d56d5d4d", "multiplier": 2000 }{ "symbol": "NAMES", "address": "0x2a187453064356c898cae034eaed119e1663acb8", "multiplier": 100 }{ "symbol": "ESTATE", "address": "0x959e104e1a4db6317fa58f8295f586e1a978c297", "multiplier": 2000 }{ "name": "multichain", "graphs": { "137": "https://api.thegraph.com/subgraphs/name/decentraland/blocks-matic-mainnet" }, "symbol": "MANA", "strategies": [ { "name": "erc20-balance-of", "params": { "address": "0x0f5d2fb29fb7d3cfee444a200298f468908cc942", "decimals": 18 }, "network": "1" }, { "name": "erc20-balance-of", "params": { "address": "0xA1c57f48F0Deb89f569dFbE6E2B7f46D33606fD4", "decimals": 18 }, "network": "137" } ] }
If you need MANA for testing you can get it by interacting with the contract on etherscan
Connect your wallet and use the mint method on the Contract -> Write Contract section
to (address)is your addressamount (uint256)is whatever you want. Take into account that1000000000000000000 = 1 MANA
Take into account that the voting power distribution response from snapshot returns an array with each voting power. The order in which each value is returned depends on the order in which strategies are added to the space on the space settings
Current Strategies Order
- WMANA
- LAND
- ESTATE
- MANA
- NAMES
- DELEGATED
- WEARABLE
Test
To run the tests you can do
npm test
or create a run configuration in your IDE with jest --no-cache --no-watchman --runInBand
Also, you can try adding the --verbose option.
The --runInBand parameter runs the tests in a single thread, which is usually faster, but you can try without it
and see what works best for you.
Run
Once you setup this project you can start it using the following command
npm start
Note 1: this project run over
https, if it is your first time you might need to run it withsudo
Note 2: you can disabled
httpsremoving the--httpsflag in thedevelopscript of yourpackage.json
the app should be running at https://localhost:4000/
About
Routes
The routes are defined using express you can find each route in src/routes and those are imported at src/server.ts
Types and Utils
Types and Utils contain functions and types that will be useful across the whole project.
Proposals statuses
- Proposals are created in pending, and automatically passed to active
- After a voting period of 1 week, they are automatically marked as finished, passed, or rejected, depending on the kind of proposal and of the voting results.
- If proposal is in finished status, a committee user can pass/reject it, with a comment.
- Once passed, a proposal can be enacted by a committee user, with a comment.
Voting results
- Voting results are calculated in two different ways, for different purposes:
Votes/utils.tscalculates the results in a user-friendly way. These results are rounded up for clarity.Proposal/jobs.tshas a more exact calculation, and is used to evaluate the real result of the voting
Copyright & License
This repository is protected with a standard Apache 2 license. See the terms and conditions in the LICENSE file.
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