How to submit a Governance Action using GovTool

Prerequisites

• Follow the steps of setting up the GovTool Frontend.
• Provide any backend that provides the Epoch params (for the wallet connection), can be the current GovTool Backend.
• Have a wallet with the 50k of ADA to pay for the transaction and fee.

Development guide

Prerequisites

For creating the Governance Action, you need to consume 2 utility methods provided by GovernanceActionProvided (documented later within this document), and 3 exported from CardanoProvider wallet actions (2 for the 2 types of supported by GovTool Governance Actions and 1 for Signing and Submitting the transaction)

Types

import { VotingProposalBuilder } from "@emurgo/cardano-serialization-lib-nodejs";

interface GovernanceAction {
  title: string;
  abstract: string;
  motivation: string;
  rationale: string;
  references: [{ label: string; uri: string }];
}

interface InfoProps {
  hash: string;
  url: string;
}

interface TreasuryProps {
  amount: string;
  hash: string;
  withdrawals: { receivingAddress: string; amount: string }[];
}

const createGovernanceActionJsonLD: (
  governanceAction: GovernanceAction
) => NodeObject;

const createHash: (jsonLd: NodeObject) => string;

const buildNewInfoGovernanceAction: (
  infoProps: InfoProps
) => Promise<VotingProposalBuilder | undefined>;

const buildTreasuryGovernanceAction: (
  treasuryProps: TreasuryProps
) => Promise<VotingProposalBuilder | undefined>;

const buildSignSubmitConwayCertTx: (params: {
  govActionBuilder: VotingProposalBuilder;
  type: "createGovAction";
}) => Promise<void>;

Step 1: Create the Governance Action metadata object

Create the Governance Action object with the fields specified by CIP-108, which are:

• title
• abstract
• motivation
• rationale
• references

(For the detailed documentation of the fields and their types, please refer to the CIP-108)

Step 2: Create the Governance Action JSON-LD

Using the GovernanceActionProvider provider, use the createGovernanceActionJsonLd method to create the JSON-LD object for the Governance Action.

Example:

// When used within a GovernanceActionProvider
const { createGovernanceActionJsonLD } = useCreateGovernanceAction();

const jsonLd = createGovernanceActionJsonLD(governanceAction);

Type of the jsonLd object is NodeObject provided from the jsonld package by digitalbazaar (ref).

Step 3: Create the Governance Action Hash of the JSON-LD

Using the GovernanceActionProvider provider, use the createGovernanceActionHash method to create the hash of the JSON-LD object.

Example:

// When used within a GovernanceActionProvider
const { createHash } = useCreateGovernanceAction();

const hash = createHash(jsonLd);

Type of the hash object is string (blake2b-256).

Step 4: Validate the Governance Action hash and metadata

Validate the Governance Action hash and metadata using any backend that provides the Governance Action validation of the metadata against the provided hash.

Step 5: Sign and Submit the Governance Action

Using the CardanoProvider provider, use the buildSignSubmitConwayCertTx method to sign and submit the Governance Action, and either the buildNewInfoGovernanceAction or buildTreasuryGovernanceAction method to build the transaction based on the Governance action type.

Example:

// When used within a CardanoProvider
const { buildSignSubmitConwayCertTx, buildNewInfoGovernanceAction } =
  useCardano();

// hash of the generated Governance Action metadata, url of the metadata
const govActionBuilder = await buildNewInfoGovernanceAction({ hash, url });

// sign and submit the transaction
await buildSignSubmitConwayCertTx({
  govActionBuilder,
  type: "createGovAction",
});

// or if you want to use the Treasury Governance Action
const { buildTreasuryGovernanceAction } = useCardano();

// hash of the generated Governance Action metadata, url of the metadata, amount of the transaction, receiving address is the stake key address
const govActionBuilder = await buildTreasuryGovernanceAction({
  hash,
  url,
  withdrawals: [{ amount, receivingAddress }]
});

// sign and submit the transaction
await buildSignSubmitConwayCertTx({
  govActionBuilder,
  type: "createGovAction",
});

Step 6: Verify the Governance Action

buildSignSubmitConwayCertTx logs the transaction CBOR making it able to be tracked on the transactions tools such as cexplorer.