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Congress

DAO / Governance
Part of The Avsa Collection
0xa1e9989b4ef5...4895d68ba662
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Deployed April 26, 2016 (10 years ago)Block 1,407,359

A Congress governance contract set to pass proposals on a single vote, deployed 26 April 2016.

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Historical Significance

Congress differs from the token-weighted associations of the same tutorial in one important way: voting weight is assigned by an owner rather than bought, so membership is a list somebody maintains. That makes it a board rather than a shareholder meeting, and the pattern reappears in every multisig and council that followed. The margin required to pass a proposal is a constructor argument, and a low one turns the vote into a formality.

Context

Deployed six weeks before the reentrancy attack on The DAO, from the governance tutorial that ethereum.org was publishing at the time.

Key Facts
Deployment Block
1,407,359
Deployment Date
Apr 26, 2016, 12:30 PM
Code Size
4.5 KB
Transactions by Year
201623

Description

Members hold voting weight assigned by the owner, and any member can put up a proposal naming a recipient, an amount of ether and the calldata to send. Proposals are debated for a fixed window, voted on with a recorded justification, and executed once the vote passes. The constructor was given a minimum quorum of one, a debating period of zero minutes and a majority margin of zero, so a single vote from a single member is enough to execute immediately, and the deployer named their own address as the congress leader. Deployed by Alex Van de Sande from 0xd1220a0cf47c7b9be7a2e6ba89f429762e7b9adb, which resolves to alex.vandesande.eth.

Source Verified

Exact bytecode match(4,593 bytes)
Compiler: v0.2.0-

Historian Categories

DAO / Governance
Heuristic Analysis

The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.

Detected Type: DAO / Governance

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes4,593
Unique Opcodes216
Jump Instructions195
Storage Operations152

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