DAOstack GitHub Profile

Overall Assessment: At the time of our review, DAOstack has 9 very well maintained repositories in their GitHub profile which are surprisingly well documented and regularly updated. Their last commit was on April 9, 2018. All of their repositories are relevant to the project and in active development.

As mentioned in their website, whitepaper and executive summary, they are creating a stack and framework for DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations). What we really liked about the GitHub profile, is that it contains everything from their general purpose governance framework (‘Arc’) to proof of concept level application (‘Alchemy’).

We tested all of their own uploaded repositories from arc to alchemy. The testing and review process was smooth as butter because of their very well written documentation and instructions. So kudos for that. We also found some hiccups such as database table creation error on postgresql and user switching error on alchemy client. However, this is somewhat mitigated by the fact that these types of errors are quite frequent at the current stage of development.

We will be reviewing in depth two of their repositories which are:

Alchemy Server

Alchemy / Alchemy Client

The reason for testing these two specific repositories is that both of them provide a good proxy for their technology assessment as it uses the full DAOstack.