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Make Your Snowcone Project

Welcome to the "Mark Your Snowcone Project" section of the Snowcone documentation. This guide aims to provide you with the knowledge to mark your Snowcone project effectively and efficiently, whether it is in terms of project details, funding, token management, or the rules to be followed.

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Contents

  1. Project Details

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Project Details

This section provides a comprehensive guide to detailing your project in Snowcone. Get insights into best practices for presenting and organizing your project information.

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Funding

Learn how to set up and manage funding for your Snowcone project. This includes setting up initial funding, managing funding cycles, and handling payments.

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Token

This section covers the different aspects of token management in your Snowcone project, including minting, distribution, and token economics.

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Rules

The success of your Snowcone project hinges on adhering to a set of rules. Learn about these rules and how they influence your project’s growth and sustainability.

We hope this guide helps you understand how to effectively mark your Snowcone project. If you have any questions or require further assistance, please feel free to reach out to our team.

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Funding

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Overview

Funding criteria define the manner in which your project allocates funding. This component also controls the financing cycle behavior for your project. The financing cycle of a project influences the operation of its time-locked regulations. This information can be modified over time.

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Automated funding cycles

One payout is made every financing cycle. ☃Using funding cycles to determine certain token rewards. ❄Moreover, projects cannot be changed throughout the course of a financing cycle. ⛄Instead, modifications are scheduled for the following financing cycle. With automated funding cycles disabled, the project owner is free to alter the project at any moment, therefore initiating a new funding cycle. This offers the project owner more freedom, but increases the community's perception of the risk of rugpulls and other hostile behavior.When financing cycles are automated, the project owner must select a cycle duration. A shorter funding cycle offers greater flexibility, but a higher perception of risk. A longer financing cycle will have the contrary effect.Automated financing cycles are especially advantageous for projects with recurring expenses or payments.

Payouts

The manner in which a treasury's funds leave is determined by payouts. 💸The payoff amounts are specified in AVAX or USD. 💰Percentage distributions are expressed as a proportion of the whole Treasury. The 2.5% fee is channeled to the Snowcone DAO's treasury for payouts to Ethereum addresses. These payments issue SNOW tokens, offering projects a portion of ecosystem ownership. Payments made to other Snowcone initiatives incur no costs.The funds that are not required for a project's payments are referred to as overflow. If authorized by the project owner, members of the community can exchange their tokens for a percentage of excess funds. Overflow also serves as the runway for a project. There is no overflow in projects utilizing percentage rewards.

Token

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Overview

When individuals fund a project, project tokens are generated. Token parameters determine how tokens function.

  • By default, token balances are tracked in snowcone contracts. Once their product has been implemented, project owners can issue ERC-20 tokens on snowcones.io if they so want. This ERC-20 is available for community members to claim.

  • Frequently, project tokens are utilized for governance voting, restricted access to a Discord server, an NFT mint, or anything else.

  • These regulations may be modified over time.

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Rules

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Overview

Restrictions on project reconfigurations and global toggles for suspending payments and activating token minting at will

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Initial mint rate

The number of project tokens minted when 1 AVAX is contributed.

Reserved tokens

Tokens are minted when people pay your project. Reserved tokens can be used to control where those tokens go.By default, all tokens go to the person that pays your project. If the reserved rate is set to 30%, the person that pays your project will only receive 70% of the tokens minted by that payment. The remaining 30% of tokens will go to Avalanche addresses and Snowcone projects chosen by the project owner.Project owners often use reserved tokens to ensure that core project members maintain a voice in governance as a project grows. A higher reserve rate makes a project more resilient to takeover, but reduces the incentive for individuals to contribute to your project (as they will receive fewer project tokens). A lower reserve rate will do the opposite.

Discount rate

The percentage your mint rate will decrease by every funding cycle. In other words: how much more expensive do project tokens become each funding cycle? If a project has an intial mint rate of 1,000,000 tokens per AVAX and a discount rate of 10%, that project's mint rate will be 900,000 tokens per AVAX in its second funding cycle, and 810,000 tokens per AVAX in the funding cycle after that. This mechanic encourages early contributions, but may also discourage later contributors if too extreme.

Redemption Rate

By default, tokens can be redeemed for a proportional amount of overflow.

  • Funds exceeding your costs/payouts are considered overflow.

  • By default, a token holder who redeems ten percent of all project tokens will receive ten percent of the overflow.

The redemption rate alters this behaviour—if set to 60%, project tokens are only redeemable for 60% of the overflow they would otherwise correspond to. This means that somebody redeeming 10% of project tokens would only receive ~6% of the overflow, leaving the other ~4% in the treasury. The funds remaining in the treasury increase the proportional value of other tokens. The redemption rate mechanic rewards individuals who redeem their project tokens later rather than earlier.

Community Resources

Welcome to the Community Resources section of Snowcone DAO. Our community is the lifeblood of our organization, and we're committed to fostering a vibrant, engaging, and supportive environment. One of the key platforms we use for community interaction is Discord.

Snapshot

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What is a snapshot?

From the Snapshot Docs:

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.

You can easily set up Snapshot voting with a Snowcone project token by using the strategies below. Make sure you follow the TODO notes, and delete the notes once you do. If you need help customizing your parameters, send a message in the Snowcone Discord.

Allow token minting

When enabled, the project owner can mint project tokens to any address at will. This could be used for setting up a "premine", or to create an additional token reserve for the DAO.

Reconfiguration rules

Reconfiguration rules are requirements that must be satisfied in order to reconfigure a project. Conforming to the default 3-day delay, a reconfiguration must be filed at least 3 days before to the beginning of the subsequent financing period. This allows the community time to validate queued reconfigurations and prevents a rug pull at the last minute.

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Pause Payments

If enabled, your project cannot be paid for. This has been utilized by project owners between fundraising seasons or when desiring to fully halt token issuance.

Project Details

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Overview

Project Details are displayed on your Snowcones.io project page. This section includes your project's title, description, logo, important links, and pay button customization.

  • These details can be updated later.

  • Emojis can be used in these fields.

  • This information is stored on IPFS.

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Make a Discord Server

Discord is one of the most prominent social platforms in cryptocurrency. It allows users to construct free servers for their communities that are invite-only. Discord servers offer multiple channel messaging, voice/video calls, and the setup of sophisticated permissions. Through its API, Discord also allows bots and other forms of automation.

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Get Discord

If you don't already have an account, create one at discord.gg. You can access Discord via a web browser or through its native apps on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, or Linux. If you are a complete beginner, take a look at Discord's beginner's guide.

A Discord server invite, which will be displayed as a link on your project page. Project creators often link to an official project Discord server. If unnecessary, this field can be left blank.

Pay button text

The pay button text on your project page. The default is Pay, and Donate is a popular alternative.

Pay disclosure

The pay disclosure will be shown to people before they pay your project. Project creators often use this to provide context or to display an agreement.

Project name

The title of your project, which will appear on your project page and on the Snowcones.io home page.

Project description

This description will appear on your project page. Project creators often use this space for stating their project's goals and providing context.

Logo

Your project's logo, which will be displayed on your project page and on the Snowcones.io home page. Upload a GIF for an animated logo! Filesize must be under 1 MB.

Website

A link to any website, which will be displayed on your project page. Project creators often link to their project's landing page. If unnecessary, this field can be left blank.

Twitter handle

A Twitter handle, which will be displayed as a link on your project page. Do not type an @ before the handle—it will be added automatically. Project creators often link to their project's official Twitter account. If unnecessary, this field can be left blank.

Discord link

Governance Resources

Welcome to the Governance Resources section of Snowcone DAO. Here, we provide detailed information and guides on our governance structure and the tools we use to ensure a fair and transparent decision-making process. Our primary tools for governance include Snapshot and Gnosis Safe.

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Snapshot

Snapshot is a gasless, multi-governance client with easy proposal mechanisms and voting. It allows Snowcone DAO members to propose changes and vote on them in a democratic and decentralized manner. Snapshot ensures that every voice in our community is heard and that decisions are made collectively.

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Gnosis Safe

Gnosis Safe is a secure and trusted platform for managing digital assets and smart contracts. At Snowcone DAO, we use Gnosis Safe to implement multi-signature wallets, enhancing the security of our operations and ensuring that major decisions are approved by multiple trusted parties.

By understanding and utilizing these tools, you can actively participate in the governance of Snowcone DAO, contributing to our growth and success.

[Link to detailed guide on using Snapshot]
[Link to detailed guide on using Gnosis Safe]

Gnosis Safe

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What is Gnosis Safe?

The majority of Crypto wallets are protected by a private key that may be converted into a 12-word "seed phrase." If this private key is compromised, the money are susceptible to theft.

Gnosis Safe is an Ethereum-based smart contract wallet that needs a minimum number of persons to authorize a transaction before it can take place (M-of-N). If, for instance, your firm has three primary stakeholders, you may configure the wallet to demand consent from all three before sending a transaction. This ensures that no one individual may jeopardize the cash.

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Why Use a Multisig wallet?

A multisig (like Gnosis Safe) protects you and your community.

  • If your wallet becomes compromised, the attacker cannot take over your Snowcone project.

  • You (or another Safe signer) could not unilaterally execute malicious transactions affecting your Snowcone project.

A multisig is an extra shield to protect your projects from harmful or faulty reconfigurations. It does come with risks though—if you cannot meet the Safe's threshold, you will lose access to everything inside of it.

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Deploy a Gnosis Safe

  1. Visit and click Open app in the upper right-hand corner.

  2. Connect your wallet and click + Create new Safe.

  3. Click Continue

  • More than one owner.

  • A threshold higher than one.

  • A threshold lower than the number of owners. Therefore, even if one owner loses access to their account, the Safe can still be accessed.

5. Click create and confimr the transaction to deploy your Safe. Then click Get started.

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Deploy your Snowcone Project from a Safe

To deploy your Snowcone Project from a Gnosis Safe, open the Apps page in the left-hand menu on gnosis-safe.io/. Search for the Snowcone app and open it. From there, you can follow standard creation guides—instead of deploying your project at the end, a transaction to deploy your project will be queued, and other multisig owners will have to sign that transaction.

Someone will have to pay gas fees and execute the transaction once it reaches the required number of signatures.

to create your Safe on AVAX, and click
Continue
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  • When configuring Owners and Confirmations, you should have:

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    Create

    Welcome to the "Create" section of Snowcone DAO. This is where you'll find all the resources you need to start your own project, understand our governance structure, and engage with our vibrant community.

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    Make Your Snowcone Project

    Have an idea for a project that could benefit the Snowcone DAO community? We're here to help you bring it to life. Our platform provides a range of resources and tools designed to support project development within our ecosystem. From technical documentation to best practices, you'll find everything you need to kickstart your project.

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    Understanding our governance structure is key to participating effectively in Snowcone DAO. We've compiled a set of resources to help you navigate our governance model, understand the decision-making process, and learn how you can contribute to shaping the future of Snowcone DAO.

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    Our community is the heart of Snowcone DAO. Whether you're looking to connect with other members, share ideas, or get support, our community resources can guide you. Discover our forums, social media channels, and other platforms where you can engage with the Snowcone DAO community.

    Governance Resources
    Community Resources