delegating token in daos

[sadath-12]

We must delegate tokens to the commuinity also right to hold to authority to vote ? why are delegating only to owner

import { HardhatRuntimeEnvironment } from "hardhat/types"
import { DeployFunction } from "hardhat-deploy/types"
import verify from "../helper-functions"
import { networkConfig, developmentChains } from "../helper-hardhat-config"
import { ethers } from "hardhat"

const deployGovernanceToken: DeployFunction = async function (hre: HardhatRuntimeEnvironment) {
  // @ts-ignore
  const { getNamedAccounts, deployments, network } = hre
  const { deploy, log } = deployments
  const { deployer } = await getNamedAccounts()
  log("----------------------------------------------------")
  log("Deploying GovernanceToken and waiting for confirmations...")
  const governanceToken = await deploy("GovernanceToken", {
    from: deployer,
    args: [],
    log: true,
    // we need to wait if on a live network so we can verify properly
    waitConfirmations: networkConfig[network.name].blockConfirmations || 1,
  })
  log(`GovernanceToken at ${governanceToken.address}`)
  if (!developmentChains.includes(network.name) && process.env.ETHERSCAN_API_KEY) {
    await verify(governanceToken.address, [])
  }
  log(`Delegating to ${deployer}`)
  await delegate(governanceToken.address, deployer)
  log("Delegated!")
}

const delegate = async (governanceTokenAddress: string, delegatedAccount: string) => {
  const governanceToken = await ethers.getContractAt("GovernanceToken", governanceTokenAddress)
  const transactionResponse = await governanceToken.delegate(delegatedAccount)
  await transactionResponse.wait(1)
  console.log(`Checkpoints: ${await governanceToken.numCheckpoints(delegatedAccount)}`)
}

export default deployGovernanceToken
deployGovernanceToken.tags = ["all", "governor"]

[alymurtazamemon]

@sadath-12 Do not understand your question.

[alymurtazamemon]

@sadath-12 We can but here Patrick gave only to one account. And it is not an owner, you will see later at the end no one will be the owner, all the powers will be assigned to the governance contract and timelock contract.

[sadath-12]

could u please eloborate ? not able to get to the point whats happening behind the scenes with this line

 const transactionResponse = await governanceToken.delegate(delegatedAccount)

[sadath-12]

when i went through those openzeppelin contracts it shows its transferring the power to that account but why ? since we need to delegate the tokens to everyone

[alymurtazamemon]

@sadath-12 As I explained it to you that this line is giving the voting power to provided address (delegatedAccount).

[albatros-github]

patrik show us how to delegate to one address, but since governanceToken.delegate(delegatedAccount) doesn't have an argument/parameter for the amount of tokens to be delegated, all the tokens that the governanceToken contract has will ever go to only one address.

so how could you delegate different amount of tokens to different community token's holders?