Agora 🏛️

Agora is a set of Plutus scripts that compose together to form a governance system.

What is Agora

Goals:

• Agora aims to reduce duplication in Liqwid and XplorerDAO and to serve as a one-size-fits-all governance library for projects on the Cardano blockchain.
• Agora aims to be modular and flexible for specific needs but presents an opinionated architecture.

Non-goals:

• Agora is not a DAO. It doesn't have tokenomics or even a token. It is simply a library for governance.
• Agora doesn't aim to provide any primitive tools for Plutus that are not governance-specific. For this, see liqwid-plutarch-extra.

Project setup

An up to date version of the Nix package manager (>=2.3) is required to build this project. For information on how to install, see the NixOS website. Important: see also this section on binary caches.

Open a development shell with nix develop and build the project with cabal build. Those pained by the need to remember to enter a Nix shell may consider using nix-direnv.

agora-scripts HTTP export server

To use scripts in a frontend, you can use the agora-scripts executable which allows you to query them on-demand.

The CTL repo agora-offchain already has the setup prepared for this feature.

In order to run the server, simply run the following command:

cabal run agora-scripts -- --enable-cors-middleware

Documentation

Documentation for Agora is hosted on Notion. You can find the specs here.

Using Agora for your protocol

If you are a protocol wanting to use Agora, read Using Agora.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md. Additionally, please follow the Git policy when contributing to this project.

Overview of components

Road-map

v1

• Governor
• Treasury
• Stakes
• Proposals
• Effects

v2

• Flexible scripts using TxT pattern integrated with governance
• Different voting mechanisms

Available support channels info

You can find help, more information and ongoing discusion about the project here:

• The Agora & Liqwid Libs Discord - Most Agora discussion happens here.