# 13/19_02_2023

By [Bichop](https://paragraph.com/@bichop) · 2023-02-19

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Didn’t manage to do much this week 😕 I’ll try to be more obsessional next week.

### State of DAOs :

I researched current DAO usage and found that not every DAOs are on-chain. Indeed, [snapshot.org](https://snapshot.org/#/) is hosting off-chain some big communities like/as Optimism, Stargate, Arbitrum, AAVE,… I think the reasons of centralisation is because either network fees are too expensive or that those protocols are multi-chain so it’s easier to aggregate everything off-chain.

I discovered that factory DAOs (Aragon for exemple) are using a simple proxy contract that every DAOs point to.

It is indeed a smart way of doing things.

As I was lost in the internet I found really cool [challenge instructions](https://github.com/zkxteam/Autumn-StarkNet-Hackathon) for a Starknet hackathon (Autumn-StarkNet-Hackathon) from ZKX team. I found it really promising and will follow this “white paper” to create my first Cairo 1.0 DAO program.

![I created a little diagram to demonstrate the workflow](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/a454a936a237f448b8c6bd337c1d4f76b674f769f699a192e9c94ead2931bfdd.png)

I created a little diagram to demonstrate the workflow

The goal is to create a factory of contracts pointing to a proxy, just as Aragon. I’m thinking of creating an API to call for creation of contracts.

But there is unknown points :

*   How to manage fees ?
    
    *   It's possible to pay fees on behalf of the wallet deploying.
        
    *   If they pay for fees, I need them to sign and send the tx, is it possible to deploy from an api ? Not with the metamask browser extension, but maybe I can open a qrcode when trying to deploy the contract.
        
*   How to keep it safe ?
    
    *   Will not implement spam resistance, or maybe it’s built-in depending of the framework.
        

Apparently it’s not possible to connect a wallet from an API, WalletConnect npm package block any websocket opening if not from a browser (`window` check).

I’m wondering if this limitation is security oriented or something else.

### Cairo 1.0

Found another Cairo 1.0 tutorial : [https://www.argent.xyz/blog/getting-started-with-cairo-1.0/](https://www.argent.xyz/blog/getting-started-with-cairo-1.0/)

It’s mostly presenting the Cairo language and how to compile it, as there is no deployment possible at the moment.

Little update on Cairo 1.0 integration :

_StarkNet Mainnet_ : March 15 2023 _StarkNet Testnet_ : March 8 2023 _StarkNet Devnet_ : March 8 2023 _Protostar_ : Feb 28 2023 _Hardhat_ : Est. March 15 2023 _starknet.js_ : March 8 2023

### CopyDex :

Bugs fixed.

Copied trader’s moves and got +30% of my wallet out of it. It works pretty well for now.

### The Sandbox :

I was curious about earning money from games for free, so it wanted to give it a try last month. I retrieved some $SAND I gained “playing” for four events, 12$ well gained lol. Most of the events are to promote things, there was a newspaper, Argentina football team, the walking dead,… Not really fun, but it’s pretty easy to do, you can even do something else like listen at some podcast…

### NTFs :

I looked at a collection that every Starkware member seems to have, [Everai Duo](https://blur.io/collection/everai-heroes-duo).

It’s funny how prices went from 0.1 to 0.19 ETH in 2 days. I consider buying one soon, waiting for the price to drop a little.

### Starknet Basecamp :

Still doing it, manage to cheat second exercice. Now I have to create a L1 contract but never coded any solidity so I’m struggling a little. Hopefully I can finish next week. I also need to do this week exercices 😅. It’s easier, but it still takes time.

See you next week

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*Originally published on [Bichop](https://paragraph.com/@bichop/13-19-02-2023)*