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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/snapshot-labs/sx-docs
• Owner: snapshot-labs
• Created: 2022-04-13T09:04:18.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-12T05:59:04.000Z (4 months ago)
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• Homepage: https://docs.snapshotx.xyz
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
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description: >-

  Welcome to Snapshot X's documentation. If you're looking for specific

  technical details or just want a broad overview of the protocol, you've come

  to the right place!

---

# Snapshot X

## What's in this book?

Protocol
Technical documentation for Snapshot X protocol.

Go here if you want to understand the protocol architecture.
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User guides
Non-technical documentation for the platform.
Go here if you want to create a space, proposal or cast a vote.
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Services
Overview of the services built for a better UX when interacting with the protocol.
Go here if you want to integrate Snapshot X in your platform.
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## What's Snapshot X?

**Snapshot X** is an on-chain voting protocol. Technically speaking, it's a set of modular smart-contracts that interact with each other to do all the book-keeping. The difference with the original [Snapshot](https://snapshot.org) is that Snapshot X is **fully on-chain**. What this means is:

* **The protocol is censorship resistant**: Anyone can cast a vote. The protocol runs without any reliance on offchain or centralized services which have the power to censor votes. \[1]

* **Voting power is computed on-chain**: The voting logic is fully on-chain and auditable so you can be sure of the logic used to compute voting power and decide on the outcome of proposals.

* **The execution is trustless**: Proposal transactions are automatically executed following the passing of a proposal. Say you create a new proposal which, if it passes, will transfer 1ETH to `vitalik.eth`. If the proposal passes, the 1ETH will automatically get sent to `vitalik.eth`, without any further human action needed.

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Snapshot can be found on EVM-chains and on Starknet. Both the [EVM implementation](https://github.com/snapshot-labs/sx-evm) and the [Cairo implementation](https://github.com/snapshot-labs/sx-starknet) are open source. The Starknet-specific details can be found on [this dedicated page](protocol/starknet-specifics.md).

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If anything in these docs is unclear or you would like more detail, do not hesitate to reach out on [Discord](https://discord.snapshot.org).

\[1] We note that there are in fact offchain services (eg the relayer Mana) built for use with Snapshot X, but these are not mandatory and therefore cannot lead to censorship.