This page intends to give you a brief explanation of what Snapshot is and how it works. It also provides you with all the necessary information to get started.
Snapshot is a decentralized voting system. It provides flexibility on how voting power is calculated for a vote. Snapshot supports various voting types to cater to the needs of organizations. Creating proposals and voting on Snapshot is user-friendly and does not cost gas as the process is performed off-chain.
In short, Snapshot is an off-chain gasless multi-governance client with easy to verify and hard to contest results.
- Free (gasless) to create proposals and vote on them
- Votes are signed messages easily verifiable online
- Multiple voting systems - Single choice, Approval voting, Quadratic voting, and more
- Flexible voting strategies to calculate voting results - vote with ERC20s, NFTs, other contracts, and more
- Spaces can have their branding with custom color schemes and domain name
- Fully open-source with MIT license
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We have limited resources so feel free to contribute with code, code review, design, bug reports, advice, documentation, or anything else you can think of.
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Our next guide will take you through the steps of creating a space on Snapshot. It will also take you through the process of registering an ENS domain if you do not have one already. Before you create a space, you might want to look into some of the spaces already created on Snapshot.