Native Voting On-Chained

The Plan to Provide Open-Sourced Voting Infrastructure

The Plan to Provide Open-Sourced Voting Infrastructure

DripDropz built and deployed the first on chain vote powered by native assets. In May of 2022, we held a 10 day on-chain governance vote for DRIP token holders with five governance questions related directly to the platform. Now we want to provide this tool to everyone as an open-source solution.

Why Open-Source?

There are good reasons to open-source useful tools like voting management to the community. We want to empower everyone to run their own governance votes with a system that is easy to use, auditable, and safe. Now that we have successfully completed a vote, we feel that the tool is ready for wider adoption.

The Proposal

We have submitted a proposal for Catalyst Fund 9 entitled “DripDropz Open Source Voting Tool” In the proposal we are requesting $150,000 USD to convert our closed source, proprietary tool to an open-source system that can be deployed by a reasonably competent technical person. We will fully document the installation and use of the system and build in a help system to assist users through the voting process.

Why Catalyst Funds?

We decided to open source this tool as a means to build up the community. We want solid building blocks that can be used to build excellent experiences for our wider community. As a question of priority, we decided that committing precious development resources to an open-sourced project should be led by demand. The Project Catalyst innovation fund allows us to cover our development team time, while streamlining a tool that will be beneficial to all.

The voting system currently exists in our proprietary, closed source infrastructure. There is a non-trivial amount of work to remove proprietary references, links to code libraries, templates, and other structures that cannot remain in the finished open-sourced package. The team has to thoroughly document the code, the process, and the experience. We will need to maintain the code base for a period of at least 6 months after release, to ensure that any bug fixes are properly implemented.

These reasons compel us to request funding to properly build the voting system and maintain it. Catalyst funding also encourages user participation, and good stewardship of our community’s shared resources. Once this tool is fully open source and available, it becomes a building block for other important experiences for new blockchain users. This all fits very nicely in the key performance indicators for the challenge that we submitted in.

Conclusion

This team is uniquely suited to provide a solid voting infrastructure building block that the whole community can rely on. We are ready to take our proven technology and provide it to all of you. We’re excited to see what you will do with the tools we built.

We hope that you support the DripDropz proposals by voting yes to our proposals (Open Source Voting Tool) & (Cardano Mainstreet Suite). If you would like to learn more about our proposals, please see our other article Cardano Mainstreet Suite.