DAO-Analyzer

It is a tool to visualize DAO metrics. Currently, it shows DAO from DAOstack, DAOhaus, and Aragon. Web site: http://dao-analyzer.science/

Table of contents

• Set-up & Running (Download app)
  • How to run it?
  • Environment variables
• Build application
• Using Docker
• Technical details
  • Architecture
  • Debugging
  • How to test it?
    • Flags for hypothesis testing
• Deploy
  • Matomo integration
• Data
• Publications and related research
• Acknowledgements
• Cite as

Set-up & Running (Download app)

You can either install it on your local machine, or if you prefer it, you can use the official docker image.

If you only want to retrieve the data used by our application, go to grasia/dao-scripts instead

The easiest method by far to download and run the application is to use pip to install it

pip install dao-analyzer

Then, you can run the app using the commands daoa-cache-scripts and daoa-server

How to run it?

Before launching the app, you have to run the following script in order to enable the cache stored in datawarehouse:

dao-scripts

After a few minutes, you can now run the app with:

daoa-server

Now, visit http://127.0.0.1:8050 or the address given in the program output with your web browser.

Environment variables

To be able to access all the features of dao-analyzer, you can specify the following environment variables:

# The CrytptoCompare API key to be used to get token prices
DAOA_CC_API_KEY = "your_api_key"

# The path of the datawarehouse
DAOA_DW_PATH = './datawarehouse' # <-- Default value

Build application

Enter in your terminal (git must be installed) and write down:

git clone https://github.com/Grasia/dao-analyzer

After that, move to repository root directory with:

cd dao-analyzer

Build the dao_analyzer_components (not necessary if you only want to get the data, but not to display it)

cd dao_analyzer_components && npm ci && npm build

Then, go back to the root folder of the project, and install the package

pip install -e .

If you don't want to share Python dependencies among other projects, you should use a virtual environment, such as virtualenv.

Using Docker

If you use Docker, you can just use the images at ghcri.io/grasia/dao-analyzer. The tags with the -cached suffix have a pre-populated data warehouse (this means the image uses more space, but takes less time to load). To use it, just run the command:

docker run --name dao-analyzer -it -p80:80 ghcr.io/grasia/dao-analyzer:latest

or

docker run --name dao-analyzer -it -p80:80 ghcr.io/grasia/dao-analyzer:latest-cached

dao-analyzer is the container name, you can put whatever you want, but remember to change it also on the following command

Now, you can update the datawarehouse using:

docker exec -it dao-analyzer dao-scripts

You can even add it to your system as a cron job to update it daily, weekly, etc...

Technical details

Architecture

There is available a class diagram of the DAOstack app, the DAOhaus app, and the Aragon app.

Debugging

This app uses flask, so you can use the FLASK_ENV variable, which also enables debug mode (among other things) when set to development.

export FLASK_ENV=development

How to test it?

Run all tests with:

tox

or

python3 -m pytest test/

Flags for hypothesis testing

Use this flag --hypothesis-show-statistics to show statistics.

Use the flag --hypothesis-seed=<int> to set a fixed seed, it's useful to reproduce a failure.

Deploy

In order to fully deploy the app, use the deploy.sh script, which installs all the Python dependencies, updates the datawarehouse, and runs the web-app with gunicorn, using the gunicorn_config.py file.

Matomo integration

To enable Matomo integration, you just have to pass the following environment variables like this:

DAOA_MATOMO_URL = "https://matomo.example.com"
DAOA_MATOMO_SITE_ID = 1

You can check if the integration is working visiting the page and then your dashboard. The integration uses Javascript, so if there are any errors, you should be able to see them using "Inspect view" in your browser.

Data

The data is updated daily and published in Kaggle and Zenodo

Publications and related research

• Andrea Peña-Calvin, Javier Arroyo, Andrew Schwartz, and Samer Hassan (2024). Concentration of Power and Participation in Online Governance: the Ecosystem of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024 (WWW '24). ACM, 927–930.

  • Freely available here

• Javier Arroyo, David Davó, Elena Martínez-Vicente, Youssef Faqir-Rhazoui, and Samer Hassan (2022). "DAO-Analyzer: Exploring Activity and Participation in Blockchain Organizations.". Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'22 Companion). ACM, 193–196.

  • Freely available here

• Youssef Faqir-Rhazoui, Javier Arroyo and Samer Hassan (2021). "A comparative analysis of the platforms for decentralized autonomous organizations in the Ethereum blockchain." Journal of Internet Services and Applications volume 12, Article number: 9.

  • Freely available here.

• Youssef Faqir-Rhazoui, Miller Janny Ariza-Garzón, Javier Arroyo and Samer Hassan (2021). "Effect of the Gas Price Surges on User Activity in the DAOs of the Ethereum Blockchain." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article No.: 407, Pages 1–7.

  • Freely available here.

• Youssef Faqir-Rhazoui, Javier Arroyo, and Samer Hassan (2021). "A Scalable Voting System: Validation of Holographic Consensus in DAOstack." Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 5557-5566.

  • Freely available here.

• Youssef Faqir-Rhazoui, Javier Arroyo, and Samer Hassan. (2020). An overview of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations on the blockchain. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (Opensym 2020) 11:1-11:8. ACM.

  • Freely available here.

Acknowledgements

DAO-Analyzer is developed under the umbrella of multiple research projects:

• Chain Community, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (RTI2018‐096820‐A‐I00) and led by Javier Arroyo and Samer Hassan
• P2P Models, funded by the European Research Council (ERC-2017-STG 625 grant no.: 75920), led by Samer Hassan.
• DAOapplications, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-127956OB-I00) and led by Javier Arroyo and Samer Hassan

Cite as

You can just cite one of our publications:

Javier Arroyo, David Davó, Elena Martínez-Vicente, Youssef Faqir-Rhazoui, and Samer Hassan (2022). "DAO-Analyzer: Exploring Activity and Participation in Blockchain Organizations.". Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'22 Companion). ACM, 193–196.

Or, if you want to explicitly cite the application:

Arroyo, Javier, Davó, David, Faqir-Rhazoui, Youssef, & Martínez Vicente, Elena. (2023). DAO Analyzer. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7669689