Tohyo - A decentralized voting system plaform

Tohyo is basically a decentralized voting system running on stacks. It provides flexibility when creating proposals allowing the user to choose the voting strategy (SIP010 token).

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Inspiration

I've used snapshot.org in the past for voting in different platforms and chains but stacks is not included in their list of L1 chains so I though I could build one for this hackaton.

What it does

Tohyo (vote in Japanese) is basically a decentralized voting system running on stacks. It provides flexibility when creating proposals allowing the user to...

  • Choose different SIP010 tokens to allocate votes for an option (DIKO, stDIKO and USDA for the testnet, more tokens coming in the future)
  • Personalizing a proposal with different options and ways to vote
  • Adding a time limit to vote (based on blocks)
  • Creating groups that can be managed by multiple accounts. These groups will be able to create and manage proposals.

How we built it

I've used the following technologies:

  • Clarity
  • IPFS (using infura.io) to save proposal details.
  • React
  • Netlify

Challenges we ran into

As this was my first app using the stacks network (I have little experience with solidity), learning Clarity was a big challenge. Coming from object oriented languages like Ruby or Python, learning Clarity was a big shock at first, but after a while it grows into you. Once you get the concept of the language you see the good things and flaws of object oriented languages.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Learning Clarity and being able to write two different big and useful contracts
  • Learning the clarinet framework
  • First time creating a React app and deploying it (I work as a backend developer using Ruby, so this was a first :D)

What's next for Tohyo - A decentralized voting system plaform

As this was a project for a hackaton, lots of things were missed when it was first deployed. This list includes the next ideas:

  • Tests for react components - Clarity contracts have tests that can be executed running yarn clarinet:test and live in the contracts/tests folder.
  • LOTS OF UI/UX improvements (there are no notifications right now and some transitions are clunky)
  • Block tokens when an user vote.
  • Accept multiple tokens for the same proposal (stDIKO and DIKO could be used in the same proposal).
  • Use SIP009 (NFT tokens) to be counted as voting power.
  • Vote to multiple options for the same proposal.
  • Tracker for the transactions, we can even show a notification when your vote function has been processed correctly and the transaction has been confirmed.

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