DNS Chain ⛓️🌐

DNS Chain is a sovereign blockchain built with Cosmos SDK and CometBFT, designed to revolutionize the management and ownership of Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and domains through a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). This project was initiated with Ignite CLI.

We believe in a more open, transparent, and user-controlled internet. DNS Chain empowers its community to propose, vote on, and manage the creation of new TLDs, as well as participate in the evolution of the platform itself.

Join our DAO and help us build the future of decentralized DNS!

✨ Project Vision

The current DNS system, while fundamental, is centralized and susceptible to censorship and single points of failure. DNS Chain aims to:

• Decentralize TLD Creation: Allow the community, through the DAO, to propose and approve new TLDs, fostering innovation and diversity in the internet namespace.
• Verifiable Domain Ownership: Register ownership of label.TLD domains on the blockchain, offering transparency and censorship resistance.
• Community Governance: Ensure all major platform decisions, including TLD additions, system parameters, and upgrades, are made by the holders of the governance token (udns).
• Interoperability: Leverage the Cosmos ecosystem for future integrations and inter-chain communication (IBC).

🚀 Key Features

• DNS Blockchain Module: Enables the registration and management of label.TLD domains under DAO-approved TLDs. Includes functionalities like domain creation, updates, transfers, and renewals (heartbeats).
• DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) Module:
  • Proposal system for adding new TLDs and requesting community funds.
  • Voting mechanism based on the udns token, with voting power for granted tokens that can decay over time.
  • DAO-configurable parameters (quorum, voting thresholds, proposal costs, voting power decay duration).
  • Deny list of ICANN-reserved TLDs to prevent conflicts with the global DNS.
• Built on Cosmos SDK: Inherits the modularity, security, and performance of the Cosmos framework.
• CometBFT Consensus: Utilizes CometBFT (formerly Tendermint Core) for fast and secure BFT consensus.

🤝 How to Contribute & Join the DAO!

We are looking for passionate contributors interested in decentralization, DNS, and community governance! There are many ways to get involved:

1. Code Development:

   • Check out our Issues on GitHub (replace with your actual link!).
   • Propose new features or improvements.
   • Help with refactoring, optimization, and writing tests.
   • Contribute to technical documentation.

2. DAO Participation:

   • Acquire udns tokens: The primary way to obtain udns with specialized voting power will be through DAO-approved RequestTokensProposalContent proposals recognizing contributions. The udns token is also the native token for staking and gas.
   • Create Proposals: Once you have udns (and meet deposit requirements), you can propose new TLDs, request funds for projects benefiting the DNS Chain ecosystem, or propose changes to DAO or chain parameters.
   • Vote on Proposals: Actively participate in decision-making by voting on existing proposals.
   • Debate and Discussion: Join our communication channels (see below) to discuss ideas, proposals, and the future of DNS Chain.

3. Testing and Feedback:

   • Run a local node (see "Get Started (Local Development)" below).
   • Test existing functionalities and report bugs or suggest improvements.

4. Documentation and Community:

   • Help improve our user and developer documentation.
   • Engage with the community, help onboard new members, and spread the word about DNS Chain.

🏁 Get Started (Local Development)

To start developing or testing DNS Chain locally:

Clone the repository (replace with your URL)

git clone https://github.com/DNSChain/dnsblockchain.git cd dnsblockchain

Install dependencies

go mod tidy

Install Ignite

Follow instructions in https://ignite.com/

Build

ignite chain build

Initialize and start the development chain

ignite chain serve

The serve command will provide you with:

• Test account addresses (Alice, Bob) and their mnemonics.
• Endpoints for the CometBFT node (RPC) and the blockchain API (REST/gRPC).
• A token faucet (if configured in config.yml).

🛠️ Configuration Your development blockchain can be configured with config.yml. Learn more in the Ignite CLI documentation.

The primary native and governance token is udns.

🌐 Web Frontend (Optional)

Ignite CLI offers options for scaffolding a frontend:

• Vue: ignite scaffold vue
• React: ignite scaffold react

🏛️ DAO Governance in Detail

• The DAO module is at the heart of decision-making on DNS Chain.

• Voting Token: udns -- Current Proposal Types: -- AddTldProposalContent: To propose adding a new TLD to the permitted list.

• RequestTokensProposalContent: To request funds (in udns or other tokens) from the DAO module's treasury (if a treasury is implemented) or to mint new udns tokens that grant voting power.

• Voting Power: -- Initially (before the first RequestTokens proposal is executed), voting power is based on an account's general udns balance. -- Once the first RequestTokens proposal is executed, voting power is primarily derived from "lots" of udns granted by such proposals. -- These voting power lots decay linearly over time (configured by VotingPowerDecayDurationBlocks, defaults to 100 blocks for testing, but configurable to ~6 months for production).

• Key Parameters (configurable via DAO governance or genesis): -- VotingPeriodBlocks: Duration of the voting period. -- ProposalSubmissionDeposit: Deposit for general proposals. -- AddTldProposalCost: Specific cost for TLD proposals. -- QuorumPercent: Minimum percentage of total voting power (at snapshot) that must participate. -- MinYesThresholdPercent: Minimum percentage of YES votes (over YES+NO votes) to pass.

(Release) To release a new version of your blockchain, create and push a new tag with a v prefix. A new draft release with the configured targets will be created.

git tag v0.1.0

git push origin v0.1.0

💬 Join the Conversation

• GitHub Discussions: https://github.com/DNSChain/dnsblockchain/discussions
• Bitcoin Talk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5547781.0