Executive Summary

The Gnosis Infrastructure team is aiming to improve data availability for the GnosisDAO’s subgraphs being consumed by the Snapshot Space.

• As part of the task there is a need for adopting the right indexing solution which must provide highly available data for the subgraphs running on Gnosis Chain and Ethereum Mainnet which, in turn, are consumed by the Snapshot space.
• There is a need for improving the current Snapshot strategy called GNO voting power, which needs to reflect all the available options such as GNO deposits made through Safe sponsored calls that allows locked GNO to be used for voting.
• GIP-101 passed and requires weighted choice voting for the community to elect 10 delegate candidates. However, weighted choice voting is not compatible with the Reality.eth module used to power the GnosisDAO’s Snapshot space. The most viable solution is to open an official Snapshot sub-space with weighted choice voting enabled. In addition to updating the Snapshot subgraphs detailed above, the Gnosis Infrastructure team will open a Snapshot sub-space to enable weighted choice voting should this proposal pass quorum.

Introduction

The GnosisDAO's Snapshot space needs to be monitored and maintained by the Gnosis Infrastructure team. Issues that can arise are most often related to The Graph's subgraph indexer for Snapshot. The Snapshot Subgraph is a powerful tool that efficiently organizes and indexes on-chain governance events sourced from the Snapshot DAO client.

The recent issues with the latest GIPs were related to the subgraphs indexer, which had stopped working. The subgraphs are hosted by The Graph and will be deprecated To if they are not updated.

Community members also surfaced issues related to voting with their staked GNO further indicating that there was a subgraph issue.

https://forum.gnosis.io/t/bug-in-the-snapshot-voting-power-calculation/8395

Gnosis DevOps initiated a review of all Snapshot configurations and found that the GnosisDAO's multisig owners would need to sign off on updating the settings for the DAO's Snapshot.

Proposed Changes

The subgraphs for GNO voting power, which are currently running as best effort on Ethereum and Gnosis Chain, will necessarily need to be re-deployed on The Graph Decentralized network. As a result of the re-deploy process a new value for the SUBGRAPH_URL in the Snapshot space configuration will be generated.

This value must be filled in the Snapshot configuration. Any modifications to the GnosisDAO’s Snapshot settings must be voted on by the DAO and executed via the DAO’s multi-sig.

Impact and Benefits

Updating the Snapshot configurations to install a new Graph API URL will improve data availability for the GnosisDAO’s subgraphs being consumed by the Snapshot Space. The Infrastructure team will also improve the current Snapshot strategy called GNO voting power so that locked GNO from GIP-28 can participate in GnosisDAO governance.

https://forum.gnosis.io/t/gip-28-allow-gno-holders-to-vote-even-if-their-gno-are-invested-staked-locked-in-smart-contracts-in-different-protocols-networks/2357

Implementation Plan

Please provide a detailed plan for implementing the proposed changes, including timelines, key milestones, and any necessary resources or support.

The Gnosis Infrastructure team will be working on fixing the most impacting issues with the subgraph, among which we have:

1. Migration to the Decentralized Network Objective: Transition the existing subgraph from the hosted service to the Decentralized Network ahead of the service's deprecation to ensure continued functionality and support by migrating to a more sustainable and decentralized service. This is a high priority and time sensitive task that needs to be carried out asap due to TheGraph hosted service being deprecated definitely by September 14th 2024.

2. Refresh of Voting Power Strategy Objective: Revise the voting power calculation to align with current blockchain usage and protocol engagement. Accurately reflect the active protocols and eliminate outdated or less utilized ones, enhancing the relevance and fairness of voting power metrics.

Additionally, voting power must account for:

• Beacon chain withdrawals
• Have the withdrawal address accruing the voting power as opposed to the deposit address
• osGNO
• osGNO-GNO Balancer/Aura pool

The Infrastructure team will remove support for:

• 1Hive (Gnosis)
• Swapper (Gnosis)
• SushiSwap (Gnosis)
• Elk (Gnosis)
• Baoswap (Gnosis)
• Symmetric (Gnosis)
• Uni v3 (mainnet)
• Balancer (mainnet)

3. Fixes and Enhancements in Voting Power Calculation Objective: Correct and refine the calculation issues leading to inaccurate voting scores on some indexed protocols in order to keep fairness of the voting process. Please see previous DAO votes covering the topic of allowing locked GNO to vote on Snapshot for more info.

• Withdrawal event of the Gnosis Beacon Chain Deposit smart contract was not handled correctly resulting in a wrong tracking of deposited GNO over the network. This issue is considered as critical as it could lead to vote power farming. Currently it’s not trivial to detect if a withdrawal is for claiming reward or for exit validator without tracking the Execution Layer (that is not possible in the subgraph). We decided to consider all withdrawals as an exit, even though this means we're not accounting for rewards generated over time. While this isn't ideal, it's the best solution we have at the moment to prevent abuse.

Our technical team is actively working on a better and more accurate solution, and we plan to update the system in the coming weeks.

• Fixing the issue with the Deposit event of the Gnosis Beacon Chain Deposit smart contract incorrectly handled, which was causing some issues with how voting power was being assigned. Specifically, the problem affected services like Gelato Network, where the voting power was incorrectly being assigned to the service itself rather than to the user.

Forum threads:

• https://forum.gnosis.io/t/should-gnosisdao-allow-to-use-gno-locked-in-balancer-pools-for-voting-in-snapshot-proposals/902
• https://forum.gnosis.io/t/gip-28-allow-gno-holders-to-vote-even-if-their-gno-are-invested-staked-locked-in-smart-contracts-in-different-protocols-networks/2357
• https://forum.gnosis.io/t/bug-in-the-snapshot-voting-power-calculation/8395

All the changes will be handled publicly on the following repository: https://github.com/gnosis/subgraph-voting-power

The subgraphs will be owned by a Safe on Arbitrum (arb1:0x67cE12b820ea02f045e2507648608442C6527c6C) having the Infrastructure team as owners. Subgraphs will be publicly available on this page: https://thegraph.com/explorer/profile/0x67cE12b820ea02f045e2507648608442C6527c6C?view=Subgraphs&chain=arbitrum-one

Any updates regarding this GIP will be handled in a dedicated post in the Governance section of the Gnosis Forum.