On-chain proposals

Create a proposal

Assuming you have an account with at least 500 NAM token (in this example we are going to use my-new-acc), lets get the corresponding address

namada wallet address find --alias `my-new-acc`

Now, we need to create a json file proposal.json holding the content of our proposal. Copy the below text into a json file.

{
    "content": {
        "title": "Proposal title",
        "authors": "email@proposal.n",
        "discussions-to": "www.github.com/anoma/aip/1",
        "created": "2022-03-10T08:54:37Z",
        "license": "MIT",
        "abstract": "Ut convallis eleifend orci vel venenatis. Duis vulputate metus in lacus sollicitudin vestibulum. Suspendisse vel velit ac est consectetur feugiat nec ac urna. Ut faucibus ex nec dictum fermentum. Morbi aliquet purus at sollicitudin ultrices. Quisque viverra varius cursus. Praesent sed mauris gravida, pharetra turpis non, gravida eros. Nullam sed ex justo. Ut at placerat ipsum, sit amet rhoncus libero. Sed blandit non purus non suscipit. Phasellus sed quam nec augue bibendum bibendum ut vitae urna. Sed odio diam, ornare nec sapien eget, congue viverra enim.",
        "motivation": "Ut convallis eleifend orci vel venenatis. Duis vulputate metus in lacus sollicitudin vestibulum. Suspendisse vel velit ac est consectetur feugiat nec ac urna. Ut faucibus ex nec dictum fermentum. Morbi aliquet purus at sollicitudin ultrices.",
        "details": "Ut convallis eleifend orci vel venenatis. Duis vulputate metus in lacus sollicitudin vestibulum. Suspendisse vel velit ac est consectetur feugiat nec ac urna. Ut faucibus ex nec dictum fermentum. Morbi aliquet purus at sollicitudin ultrices. Quisque viverra varius cursus. Praesent sed mauris gravida, pharetra turpis non, gravida eros.",
        "requires": "2"
    },
    "author": "TODO",
    "voting_start_epoch": 3,
    "voting_end_epoch": 6,
    "grace_epoch": 12,
    "proposal_code_path": "./wasm_for_tests/tx_no_op.wasm"
}

You should change the value of:

  • Author field with the address of my-new-acc.
  • voting_start_epoch with a future epoch (must be a multiple of 3) for which you want the voting to begin
  • voting_end_epoch with an epoch greater than voting_start_epoch, a multiple of 3, and by which no further votes will be accepted
  • grace_epoch with an epoch greater than voting_end_epoch + 6, in which the proposal, if passed, will come into effect
  • proposal_code_path with the absolute path of the wasm file to execute (or remove the field completely)

As soon as your proposal.json file is ready, you can submit the proposal with (making sure to be in the same directory as the proposal.json file):

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

The transaction should have been accepted. You can query all the proposals with:

namada client query-proposal

or a single proposal with

namada client query-proposal --proposal-id 0

where 0 is the proposal id.

Vote a proposal

Only validators and delegators can vote. Assuming you have a validator or a delegator account (in this example we are going to use validator), you can send a vote with the following command:

namada client vote-proposal \
    --proposal-id 0 \
    --vote yay \
    --signer validator

where --vote can be either yay or nay.

Check the result

As soon as the ledger reaches the epoch defined in the json as voting_end_epoch, no votes will be accepted. The code definied in proposal_code json field will be executed at the beginning of grace_epoch epoch. You can use the following commands to check the status of a proposal:

namada client query-proposal --proposal-id 0

or to just check the result:

namada client query-proposal-result --proposal-id 0