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Snapshot - the technical architecture
March 31st, 2023
Snapshot is an open-source voting platform which enables organizations to vote easily and without gas fees. Its technical implementation guarantees transparency which is crucial for decentralized governance. In the further part of the article we will have a look at each layer of the Snapshot implementation and look into its usage of IPFS which enables easy verification of data stored off-chain.
Introducing: Voting Validation
November 25th, 2022
Snapshot is an off-chain voting platform that allows DAOs, DeFi protocols, or NFT communities to vote easily and without gas fees. Today, communities use a variety of tokens or NFTs to represent voting power: the number of votes a certain address has in a DAO. With voting validation, communities can now decide who gets to vote on a certain proposal, even before calculating voting power. What does that mean?
Shielded voting is live!
October 13th, 2022
We are excited to announce that shielded voting, the privacy voting system power by Shutter Network is live on Snapshot! This article explain what shielded voting is and how you can use it today.
August 31st, 2022
Snapshot hub currently accepts signed messages (like votes or proposals) in 2 different formats: ”Personal sign” EIP-191 and ”Typed data” EIP-712. On 10 October we will remove support for Personal sign format. Personal sign is the format that was initially used on Snapshot. If you've done an integration within the past six months, you're most likely already using the Typed data EIP-712 client.
Introducing Checkpoint: a library for indexing StarkNet data
June 14th, 2022
Earlier this year we announced Snapshot X, our upcoming on-chain voting framework launching on StarkNet. While building out Snapshot X, we realized that an app on StarkNet would benefit from a richer API layer than querying for data directly from the blockchain. The go-to solution to this on mainnet would have been to use The Graph to index on-chain data. At this time however, The Graph doesn’t support StarkNet so. We set out to build a solution ourselves, Checkpoint.
Introducing Snapshot X: our upcoming on-chain voting framework for trustless execution
January 17th, 2022
As you may have heard, we are working on Snapshot X (previously named StarkVote) in collaboration with the StarkWare team. This solution will improve Snapshot in many ways. This is the first in a series of posts that aim to explain and go through the upcoming solution.