Terms of Service

Overview

These terms govern your use of SyncVotes, an open-source on-chain governance platform built on the Canton Network. By accessing or using the platform, you agree to be bound by these terms.

Nature of service

SyncVotes is an interface to Daml smart contracts on the Canton Network and the operator of the validator that hosts your party. The platform facilitates DAO creation, proposal submission, on-chain voting and the execution of what a DAO decides: it prepares each transaction for your key to sign, submits what you signed, counts the ballots and carries out the outcome. It does not hold coin or other digital assets for you: Canton Coin sent to the app pays for network traffic, as set out under Balances, and is spent rather than kept.

Eligibility

Your identity on SyncVotes is a cryptographic key. The app derives it from a twelve-word recovery phrase in your browser and creates a Canton party for it, hosted on this app's validator, once the party's cost has been paid. There is no account, no password and no way for us to recover a lost phrase: whoever holds the phrase holds the party. Access to the network is subject to the Canton Network's own participation requirements.

User responsibilities

You are solely responsible for:

• Securing your recovery phrase, your keys and the devices they are unlocked on
• Understanding that governance actions are binding once executed on-chain
• Verifying all proposal details before casting a vote
• Ensuring compliance with applicable laws in your jurisdiction

Balances and traffic

Every transaction consumes Canton Network traffic, which this validator pays for in Canton Coin (CC). That cost, net of what the network returns for it, is charged to a balance as a prepaid service fee. A DAO founded with the DAO paying pays for everything done in it; in a DAO founded with each member paying, a proposal, a vote or a comment is charged to the member who signs it, and the counting and execution of a proposal to its proposer. A party pays for itself in any case: its creation, its profile and the DAOs it founds.

A balance is paid in by sending Canton Coin to the validator's party (the address shown in the app) from any wallet, with the memo shown on the DAO's page or on the wallet page as the transfer's reason. Coin that arrives without a memo the app recognises is not credited; write to us through the repository to have it matched.

The charge for a transaction is the traffic the validator reports for it at the network's traffic price, less the validator's traffic rebate and, where they are earned, the app rewards for that traffic, times the factor set by the operator. The price shown in the app is this net price. The estimate shown before you sign is not a guarantee of the final charge, and prices change with the network's traffic price and rewards. A transaction the payer's balance cannot cover is refused before you sign. What is paid in is spent on traffic and is not paid back.

On-chain finality

A transaction the ledger has accepted is final: it cannot be reversed, undone or modified through this interface. A ballot can be changed until the deadline only where the proposal's ballot allows it. A proposal cannot be edited or withdrawn once made; to change course, propose again. Once a proposal settles, its outcome is carried out with the DAO's own authority. Exercise due diligence before confirming any governance action.

No warranty

This software is provided "as is" under the MIT License, without warranty of any kind. There are no guarantees of uptime, correctness, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose.

Limitation of liability

SyncVotes contributors, maintainers, and affiliates are not liable for any losses, damages, or adverse outcomes arising from governance decisions, smart contract behavior, Canton Network issues, or any use of this platform.

Open source

SyncVotes is fully open-source under the MIT License. You are free to inspect, fork, modify, and deploy the code independently.

github.com/SYNCVOTES/syncvotes

Changes

We may update these terms as the project evolves. Continued use of SyncVotes after changes are published constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.