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Design

Architecture

The whole system for AnyDAO MVP is composed of 4 major components:

  • Substrate based blockchain: Stores the related metadata and proofs for Projects and Proposals.
  • IPFS: Stores the actual bits of the data such as texts, images and public voter information.
  • Geode: It receives, queries and aggregates user votes. Also monitors the on-chain status and handles the uploading of IPFS storage and on-chain storage. At the same time it ensures the protection of user privacy.
  • Frontend: It gathers all kinds of data and provides information via graphical interface, and provides interactivity for users to register projects, create proposals, cast votes and many more.

Concept

Project

It represents an entity of a DAO, the creator will be the default owner, and the owner has the right to update project configurations and even transfer the ownership to another address.

Workspace

Each project can configure multiple workspaces, each workspace is composed of a chain and strategies.

Strategy

It defines how to get the voting power of users from on-chain states, such as calculating by ERC20 token balance and so on.

Proposal

A proposal stands for a topic where user can vote on with their assets.

Snapshot

For the fairness of all user voting assets, to avoid double-entrance, a snapshot mechanism is adopted in our design. When a proposal is started, the block height of each involved chain will be taken by our Geode, on which the state of each user will be fetched for power aggregation.

Privacy Level

There are currently 4 levels of privacy settings:
- Public: Details of all individual votes made by users will be made available.
- Private: Total amount of votes made per option will be made available as an aggregation while the individual vote is hidden.
- Mixed: Users have the option to choose to reveal their vote or to cast their vote in the form of an aggregated result.
- Opaque: Only the result of the vote is revealed, all other details are hidden, including aggregated vote amount.

Update Frequency

It stands for how often Geode will execute transaction to update the on-chain states.
The total number of updates for a proposal is calculated by the total voting duration divided by update frequency.
As each execution generates transaction fee, the proposal creator need to pay certain amount of token according to the number of updating.
If the update frequency is not enabled, Geode will only update the IPFS and on-chain state for once when the proposal is ended.