Foundry DAO Governance

This is a section of the Cyfrin Foundry Solidity Course.

⭐️ (6:05:45) | Lesson 14 | DAOs & Governance

This is a Solidity-based DAO implementation using OpenZeppelin.

Many tools and solutions exist to build a DAO (Tally, Snapshot, Aragon...). While it's possible to build a DAO from scratch, leveraging well-known solutions like OpenZeppelin can offer several advantages:

• Security: Established solutions have been thoroughly tested and audited, reducing the risk of vulnerabilities.
• Community Support: Using popular tools means access to a wider community for help, resources, and collaboration.
• Time Efficiency: Building on top of existing frameworks can significantly reduce development time and effort.

In this repository, we delve into the creation of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) by using OpenZeppelin's smart contract libraries. Through the implementation of a simple test using Foundry, we aim to demonstrate the seamless deployment and execution of a proposal, showcasing the practical application of decentralized governance principles.

Please note: ERC20 based voting is not always recommended, we should explore other forms of governance like reputation based or "skin-in-the-game" based. An article on money-based voting being bad.

• Foundry DAO Governance
• Getting Started
  • Requirements
  • Quickstart
• Usage
  • Test
  • Deploy
  • Estimate gas
• Formatting
• Thank you!

Getting Started

Requirements

• git
  • You'll know you did it right if you can run git --version and you see a response like git version x.x.x
• foundry
  • You'll know you did it right if you can run forge --version and you see a response like forge 0.2.0 (816e00b 2023-03-16T00:05:26.396218Z)

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/ibourn/foundry-dao
cd foundry-dao
forge install
forge build

Usage

Test

forge test

Deploy

No deployment script for this project, we focus on the implementation of contracts and we have just a test to demonstrate the end-to-end use of the DAO with the life cycle of a proposal from submission to execution.

Estimate gas

You can estimate how much gas things cost by running:

forge snapshot

And you'll see and output file called .gas-snapshot

Formatting

To run code formatting:

forge fmt