University Decentralized Autonomous Organization is designed to allow students at a university to submit proposals for projects and request funding. Members of the DAO can vote to fund the projects that best advance UDAO's goal of spreading web3 awareness and creating projects that help the community.
Students at any university can clone and redeploy UDAO as the foundation of their local web3 club. By having local duplicates of UDAO students can get experience interacting with web3 infrastructure without giving up the in person contact that local clubs give. UDAO has a local, non hierarchical governance structure with NFT based voting. Local interaction on a university campus allows students to come together and pursue their interests and reach students who know nothing about web3. The majority of the population knows crypto through Dogecoin and monkey NFTs, but there is so much more to web3 than memecoins. By Keeping membership local members can easily reach students who would never know about web3 if one of their peers did not tell them. Clubs should act as decentralized as possible without losing the small club feel of the organization. All decisions including the allocation of funds are carried out on the blockchain through voting.
The Governance structure of UDAO is meant to imitate how a DAO would act if it were truly decentralized geographically. UDAO can mint a membership NFT for students interested in web3 so that they can interact with the DAO without having to go through the costly and painful process of KYC exchanges. Groups of students can work together to submit proposals to the DAO. If a proposal is accepted, the group will complete the project and present the finished result to the DAO. By using a non-hierarchical governance structure students are free to pursue their choice of projects both on and off the blockchain.
We are a group of students at Truman State University, and we recently founded the schools first web3 focused organization. Our organization has two primary goals. First, to inform the public on the benefits of web3. Second, to develop projects both on and off the blockchain. DAOHacks is our first attempt at web3 development as an organization.
We use IPFS to store the proposal file, You can use web3.storage to simply upload files to IPFS. After the proposal file is on IPFS, input the hash of the proposal and the amount of the funds requested. The smart contracts will take in the hash, funds request, and record the sender address. From there the proposal will appear on the web page for a vote.
The first things you need to do are cloning this repository and installing its dependencies:
git clone https://github.com/nomiclabs/hardhat-hackathon-boilerplate.git
cd hardhat-hackathon-boilerplate
npm installOnce installed, let's run Hardhat's testing network:
npx hardhat nodeThen, on a new terminal, go to the repository's root folder and run this to deploy your contract:
npx hardhat run scripts/deploy.js --network localhostFinally, we can run the frontend with:
cd frontend
npm install
npm startNote: There's an issue in
ganache-corethat can make thenpm installstep fail.If you see
npm ERR! code ENOLOCAL, try runningnpm ciinstead ofnpm install.
Open http://localhost:3000/ to see your Dapp. You will
need to have Metamask installed and listening to
localhost 8545.
You can find detailed instructions on using this repository and many tips in its documentation.
- Writing and compiling contracts
- Setting up the environment
- Testing Contracts
- Setting up Metamask
- Hardhat's full documentation
For a complete introduction to Hardhat, refer to this guide.
Invalid nonceerrors: if you are seeing this error on thenpx hardhat nodeconsole, try resetting your Metamask account. This will reset the account's transaction history and also the nonce. Open Metamask, click on your account followed bySettings > Advanced > Reset Account.