DAO Research

This project represents a simple implementation of on-chain DAO on Ethereum using OpenZeppelin's suite of governance modules. In this implementation, the Governor system consists of three contracts:

• DaoToken
• DaoGovernor
• Timelock

For illustration purposes the TargetContract was created, which contains methods that serve as targets for specific proposals.

The underlying architecture and main relationships are shown in the figure below.

An example of proposal flow is shown in test/dao-use-case.spec.ts, including proposal creation, vote casting, queuing and execution.

Install all dependences

npm i or npm install

Compile contracts

npx hardhat compile

Test contracts

npx hardhat test --network hardhat

Deploy contracts

If you want to deploy to a testnet or mainnet, add a .env file with the same contents of .env.example, but replaced with your variables.

Sepolia

npx hardhat run scripts/deploy.ts --network sepolia

Ethereum Mainnet

npx hardhat run scripts/deploy.ts --network mainnet

The addresses of all deployed contracts are stored in the scripts/contracts/addresses.json directory. Specifically, for Sepolia, the JSON representation of the addresses should appear as follows:

{
    "network": "sepolia",
    "contractAddresses": {
        "DAO_TOKEN": "0xb2D92A5f1188f547eB0b6DA0a5d8aa4C0E04c30A",
        "TIMELOCK": "0xE9262F85C51E2e265b4eB0dc95651fe7591aD172",
        "DAO_GOVERNOR": "0xB6172e3dC67e4AF5A9A0fffCEF15a94d49c2bA02",
        "TARGET_CONTRACT": "0xf9D7aa83209C5Ae66aCc8136dF7721889590278D"
    }
}