grant-program

Launch a community grant program that allows users to claim tokens by verifying their identity across multiple ecosystems.

Local Development

The grant program has two components:

The token_dispenser solana program that verifies identities, checks claim amounts and transfers tokens. The on-chain program uses a merkle tree to verify claim membership.
A web frontend for verifying identities, retrieving claim proofs, and submitting claim transactions. The frontend connects to a postgres database to retrieve merkle proofs for claims that can be verified on-chain.

Configuration

Copy frontend/.env.sample to frontend/.env and edit the configuration variables therein.

Dependencies

First, install both the Solana CLI tools and Anchor. We recommend v1.14.20 for Solana and v0.27.0 for Anchor.

Node : We recommend using nvm. Node version needs to be < v17.0.0.

Install Docker.

Install jq and gsed.

brew install gnu-sed
brew install jq

Web Frontend

The frontend depends on a postgres database for storing claims and on an instance of Solana to send on-chain transactions. Here is how to run a local postgres database as a Docker container and a Solana test validator for development.

Install dependencies for the frontend. From the frontend/ directory, run:

npm install

Start Docker Desktop.

From the frontend/ directory run:

./scripts/setup.sh --dev

This script starts both a postgres container and a Solana test validator. It also deploys the program and populates the database with the keys stored in frontend/integration/keys/.

On a different terminal tab, run :

npm run dev

Navigate your browser to http://localhost:3000 to see the frontend. The frontend also uses vercel edge functions for its backend API. The code for this API lives in the frontend/pages/api directory. The functions in that directory are available under the URL http://localhost:3000/api/, e.g., http://localhost:3000/api/grant/v1/amount_and_proof. You can import the wallets from frontend/integration/keys/ into your browser wallets to be able to claim tokens in the test environment.

Unit tests

You can run the unit tests for the token_dispenser program as follows:

cd token_dispenser
cargo test-bpf

Integration tests

From the frontend/ directory run :

./scripts/setup.sh --test