CityDAO is an ambitious decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) aiming to revolutionise the concept of land ownership and urban development through the power of blockchain technology.

Our Hub API has always been open for anyone to query as we wanted to provide equal access to information for our users and integrators. This however has led to several issues related to API performance. To give you a better idea - we are receiving over 540 million requests per month.

Welcome to the first edition of our DAO Spotlight series, where we feature the most innovative Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) making waves on Snapshot. Today, we turn our focus to a game-changer in the world of sports: Krause House.

In the crypto world, attacks, hacks, and scams are unfortunately all too common. Phishing links can be found everywhere - on Twitter, in seemingly harmless blog posts, and in personal emails. We’ve not been immune to them either! As a popular tool for decentralized decision-making, Snapshot.org is an attractive target for scammers looking to manipulate governance proposals for their own gain.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.