When do you need this?
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1. Create a Proposal to Split the DAO
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Instructions
Go to ‘Contracts’ and then click on the ‘The DAO’ contract.
On the right side, click the “Pick a Function” dropdown.
Select “New Proposal”
Recipient: enter the address new curator for your DAO (your address)*
Amount: Leave Blank
Description: Leave Blank, or enter a human readable descriptor like “0x762f split proposal” so you know it is yours later. **
Transaction Data: Leave blank
Debating Period: ‘604800’ this is 1 week in seconds, the minimum amount of time.
New Curator: Check this box!
Choose your token account to execute from
Do not send any ETH (or it may fail)
Ensure you have some ETH in your token account for gas.
Click “Execute”
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
Go to ‘Contracts’ and then click on the ‘The DAO’ contract.
On the right side, click the “Pick a Function” dropdown.
Select “Vote”
Proposal ID: the ID of the proposal to split the DAO.
Supports Proposal: Check the ‘Yes’ button.
Choose your token account to execute from
Do not send any ETH (or it may fail)
Ensure you have some ETH in your token account for gas.
Click “Execute”
A pop up will appear confirming gas, etc. Enter your password and press "SEND TRANSACTION".
If you want to make sure you voted…
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5. Call the Split DAO Function
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Go to ‘Contracts’ and then click on the ‘The DAO’ contract.
On the right side, click the “Pick a Function” dropdown.
Select “Split DAO”.
Proposal ID: enter the proposal ID of your proposal.
New Curator: Enter the same address that you entered under "Recipient" in Step 1: Create a Proposal to Split the DAO.
- Choose your token account to execute from.
Do not send any ETH (or it may fail).
Ensure you have some ETH in your token account for gas.
Click “Execute”.
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.
- 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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- Go to "Contracts" in the Ethereum Wallet app
- Select The DAO Contract
- Under "Read From Contract", scroll down a ways until you see "Get New DAO Address"
- Enter your Proposal ID
- The New DAO Contract Address should appear directly below. Copy this address and save it somewhere for reference. (If this does not work, scroll down for an alternate method)
- You now need to go back to the Mist / Ethereum Wallet application and add the Watch Contract and Watch Token for this new address.
- Add New Watch Contract
- Give your contract a name
- Enter the address that you just copied from EtherScan
- Paste the JSON interface, which can be found here.
- Click OK. It should now appear under Watch Contracts:
- Add New Watch Token
- Paste the contract address from EtherScan.
- Give your new Token a name
- Choose a symbol for your token
- Decimals = 16
- Click OK. It should now appear under Watch Tokens:
- You can now see the New DAO Token Balance, 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".
For some reason, my Get New DAO Address was not working on the Test DAO. In case this remains an issue, here is how I found my address:
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