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When do you need this?

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• Mist / Ethereum Wallet: Downloaded, installed, and sync with the main net: The Mist browser.
• "The DAO" added as a Watch Contract: How to add and watch the DAO contract.
• "The DAO" added as a Watch Token: How to add the DAO token to the MIST Wallet.
• Your token address.
• Some Ether at your token address to cover cost of gas.
• Time.

Table of Contents

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1. Create a Proposal to Split the DAO

2. Find the ID of your Proposal to Split

3. Vote “YES” on your new proposal

4. Wait 1 week

5. Call the Split DAO Function

   Find out where your New DAO is and add it's Contract & Token to your Mist Application 

   Function – You are now officially split & have your ETH + reward tokens & are no longer part of the original

   DAO. 

   DAO

6. Find out where your New DAO is and add the new Watch Contract & Watch Token 

7. Wait the 27 Day Creation Period

8. Add your address to the whitelist (if you don’t want to send it to the new curator address)

9. Create a new Proposal to send all your ETH to an address
10. Vote Yes on the new proposal
11. Wait the 14 day debating period
12. Execute the proposal. Your ETH have now been sent to the address specified.

Step-By-Step

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1. Create a Proposal to Split the DAO 

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• How to Split the DAO on Github
• How to create a proposal

Instructions

1. Go to ‘Contracts’ and then click on the ‘The DAO’ contract.

2. On the right side, click the “Pick a Function” dropdown.

3. Select “New Proposal”

4. Recipient: enter the address new curator for your DAO (your address)*

5. Amount: Leave Blank

6. Description: Leave Blank, or enter a human readable descriptor like “0x762f split proposal” so you know it is yours later. **

7. Transaction Data: Leave blank

8. Debating Period: ‘604800’ this is 1 week in seconds, the minimum amount of time.

9. New Curator: Check this box!

10. Choose your token account to execute from

11. Do not send any ETH (or it may fail)

12. Ensure you have some ETH in your token account for gas.

13. Click “Execute”

14. A pop up will appear confirming gas, etc. Enter your password and press "SEND TRANSACTION".

 

* If you are just splitting the DAO with just yourself, you would enter your address and therefore become the new Curator. Make sure you have access to this account! If you are creating a new DAO with other people, this should probably be a multi-sig wallet held by multiple trusted people.

** Anyone who enters the Proposal ID will be able to read this descriptor, so don’t include personal information.

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3. Vote “YES” on your new proposal

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How to Vote

1. Go to ‘Contracts’ and then click on the ‘The DAO’ contract.

2. On the right side, click the “Pick a Function” dropdown.

3. Select “Vote”

4. Proposal ID: the ID  of the proposal to split the DAO.

5. Supports Proposal: Check the ‘Yes’ button.

6. Choose your token account to execute from

7. There is no need to Do not send any ETH (or it may fail)

8. Ensure you have some ETH in your token account for gas.

9. Click “Execute”

10. A pop up will appear confirming gas, etc. Enter your password and press "SEND TRANSACTION".

If you want to make sure you voted…

1. Enter your proposal ID on the left side

2. Look under “YEA” and make sure it doesn’t say “0”

4. Wait 1 week

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...or whatever you specified under “Debating Period” when you created the proposal

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5. Call the Split DAO Function

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1. Go to ‘Contracts’ and then click on the ‘The DAO’ contract.

2. On the right side, click the “Pick a Function” dropdown.

3. Select “Split DAO”.

4. Proposal ID: enter the proposal ID of your proposal.

5. New Curator: Enter the address of the new curator (your address)same address that you entered under "Recipient" in Step 1: Create a Proposal to Split the DAO.

6. Choose your token account to execute fromThere is no need to .

7. Do not send any ETH (or it may fail).

8. Ensure you have some ETH in your token account for gas.

9. Click “Execute”.

10. A pop up will appear confirming gas, etc. Enter your password and press "SEND TRANSACTION".

• After a ~1 minute (or less) a notification will alert you that a transaction to 0x000000000... was successful. You can also  
  • If you miss the notification, you can see this by going to the "Wallets" tab and then looking under "Latest Transactions"
  • Note: If you are the first person to split the DAO (as I was above), this will cost ~3,051,593 Gas.
   
  
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The DAO is now officially split….as long as the voting deadline is over, the new curator is different from the old one, the transaction sender has voted in favor of the proposal, and that the sender on of the transaction has not voted on another proposal with a deadline after the proposal to split the DAO.

 Your ETH and reward tokens and are no longer part of the original DAO and you are the curator of the new DAO.

6. Find out where your New DAO is and add

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the new Watch Contract &

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Watch Token

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1. Open up EtherScan.io and type the address you split the DAO with (not the new curators address) in the search bar.
2. Note the "Age" – in . (In my case it was 37 minutes). Right click
3. Click on the DAO Address (should be the most recent transaction) and open it in a new tab:
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5. In this new tab, click on the Internal Transactions . Yours should read 0xbb9....
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7. Click on the "Internal Transactions" tab and look at the recent transactions, that all happened 37 minutes ago. You can see they all match the age from above:
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9. There should be one that stands out to you as it has a value that is not 0. Click on this address.
10. This is the your New DAO Contract Address of your New DAO. Copy this address and save it somewhere for reference.
11. You now need to go back to the Mist / Ethereum Wallet application and add the Watch Contract and Watch Token for this new address.
12. Add New Watch Contract
    1. Give your contract a name
    2. Enter the address that you just copied from EtherScan
    3. Paste the JSON interface, which can be found here.
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    5. Click OK. It should now appear under Watch Contracts:
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13. Add New Watch Token
    
    1. Paste the contract address from EtherScan.
    2. Give your new Token a name
    3. Choose a symbol for your token
    4. Decimals = 16 
    5. Click OK. It should now appear under Watch Tokens:
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14. You can now see the New DAO Token balanceBalance, the amount of ETH in the New DAO Contract, and you can see you are the curator of this new DAO by click on the Watch Contract and scrolling down until you see "Curator".

7. Wait the 27 Day Creation Period of your new DAO

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