Off-chain proposals

If for any reason issuing an on-chain proposal is not adequate to your needs, you still have the option to create an off-chain proposal. An off-chain proposal is intended for proposals that do not require any on-chain code execution. The proposal would be distributed on some third-party channel (e.g. a forum) and the voting would be done off-chain. The result of the voting would be computed off-chain and then submitted to the ledger.

Create proposal

Create the same json file as in the on-chain proposal and use the following command:

namada client init-proposal \
    --data-path proposal.json \
    --offline

This command will create a proposal file same directory where the command was launched.

Vote on proposal

To vote on an offline proposal use the following command:

namada client vote-proposal --data-path proposal \
    --vote yay \
    --signer validator \
    --offline

This command will create a proposal-vote-${address} file (where address is the --signer address).

Tally off-chain proposal

To compute the tally for an offline proposal we need to collect

• proposal file (must have this name)
• all the proposal-vote-${address} files

All those files will have to be in a folder (lets call it offline-proposal).

Now you can use the following command:

namada client query-proposal-result \
    --offline \
    --data-path `offline-proposal`

which will tell you the proposal result.

Submit off-chain proposal