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Welcome to Snapshot X's documentation. If you're looking for specific technical details or just want a broad overview of the protocol, you've come to the right place! |
| Technical documentation for Snapshot X protocol. Go here if you want to understand the protocol architecture. | Broken link | ||
| Non-technical documentation for the platform. | Go here if you want to create a space, proposal or cast a vote. | Broken link | |
Overview of the services built for a better UX when interacting with the protocol. | Broken link |
Snapshot X is an on-chain voting protocol. Technically speaking, it's a set of modular smart-contracts that interact with each other to do all the book-keeping. The difference with the original Snapshot is that Snapshot X is fully on-chain. What this means is:
- The protocol is censorship resistant: Anyone can cast a vote. The protocol runs without any reliance on offchain or centralized services which have the power to censor votes. [1]
- Voting power is computed on-chain: The voting logic is fully on-chain and auditable so you can be sure of the logic used to compute voting power and decide on the outcome of proposals.
- The execution is trustless: Proposal transactions are automatically executed following the passing of a proposal. Say you create a new proposal which, if it passes, will transfer 1ETH to
vitalik.eth. If the proposal passes, the 1ETH will automatically get sent tovitalik.eth, without any further human action needed.
{% hint style="info" %} Snapshot can be found on EVM-chains and on Starknet. Both the EVM implementation and the Cairo implementation are open source. The Starknet-specific details can be found on this dedicated page. {% endhint %}
If anything in these docs is unclear or you would like more detail, do not hesitate to reach out on Discord.
[1] We note that there are in fact offchain services (eg the relayer Mana) built for use with Snapshot X, but these are not mandatory and therefore cannot lead to censorship.