nouns-anonymous-voting

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This repository consists of a library, CLI and smart contracts for the Nouns private voting project.

This is a work in progress. Please do not use this in production.

Running the client

Pre-requisites

1. Install Noir.
2. By default, we assume that there will be at most 256 voters. To change this, edit max-num-voters and run prep-tally-circuit.sh.
3. Run prep-contracts.sh and recompile in case any changes have been made to the underlying circuits, e.g. if the maximum number of voters was changed.
4. Deploy the Nouns voting contract to an Ethereum network.
5. Copy the .env.template file to .env and fill in the values.
6. Compile the Nouns CLI by running cargo build --release or cargo install --path nouns-cli if you wish to install it.

If at any point of time you see that some of the environment variables are not being picked up, try running source .env to load them into the current shell.

You can also always refer to the CLI's help manual by running it with the --help flag or any of its subcommands with the -h flag.

Reg-Key

This function is used to register a new private key inside the Zk-Registry contract. This is a one-time operation you need to do before you can vote in any process.

For that, you need a private key (an arbitrary 32-byte value) that can be submitted as part of the command (-k) or set as an environment variable. Refer to the .env.template file for more information.

1. To run from source with the private key set as an environment variable:

    nouns-cli reg-key

2. To run from source with the private key set as a command line argument:

    nouns-cli reg-key -k 043c3780cb30f913d1c34d80437f7c61c973461595986e899ee6a8171143db1d

Create Process

This function is used to create a new voting process. It will return a process ID that you can use to refer to the process in the future.

For that, you need to provide the following information:

1. The IPFS address of the proposal (-i), assumed to be based on the raw binary codec and sha2-256 hash.
2. The delay period of the voting process (-s), which may be expressed in minutes, hours or days. If this argument is omitted, it is assumed to be 0.
3. The duration of the voting process, also expressed in minutes, hours or days (-d).

Note You will need an account that has at least one Nouns to participate in the voting process. If you are running in a local test network, you can mint a Nouns to your account by running cargo run --bin premint_nouns command.

1. To create a process with duration of 1 day:

    nouns-cli create-process -i bafkreidfgllkxpigujgbavuq5kxdd5yo2jid3abzuxhwj7l6socllnd3m4 -d 1d

2. To create a process with duration of 10 hours and a delay period of 1 hour:

    nouns-cli create-process -i bafkreidfgllkxpigujgbavuq5kxdd5yo2jid3abzuxhwj7l6socllnd3m4 -s 1h -d 10h

Vote

This function is used to vote in a process.

As part of the vote, you need to provide the following information:

1. The process ID of the process you want to vote in (-p).
2. The NFT ID of the Noun you want to vote on behalf of (-n).
3. (Optional) The voter's address (-a). For an undelegated vote, this can be omitted and the address will be deduced from the NFT ID.
4. The zkRegistry private key of the account corresponding to the voter's address (-k).
5. The vote choice (-v). Here this is either Yes (y), No (n) or Abstain (a).

Note: Make sure that the NFT indeed exists in the Nouns Token contract.

    nouns-cli vote -p 0 -n 0 -k 043c3780cb30f913d1c34d80437f7c61c973461595986e899ee6a8171143db1d -v y

Tally

This function is used to tally the votes in a process.

For the tally, all you need to private is the process ID of the voting process you wish to tally (-p).

Note That you can only run this command after the voting process has ended. If you are working on a local test net, you can mine these blocks by running cargo run --bin mine_blocks command. Note that 1 block is counted as 12 seconds.

    nouns-cli tally -p 0