Accountable donation platform on NEAR protocol.
The aim is to create a way for charitable organizations to receive donations on a blockchain. I also believe it is important for the platform to recoup a small fee for promotion and development purposes.
This proof-of-concept is in AssemblyScript, but I am aware Rust should be used for financial use cases such as this.
This article is a great read about what has already happened in the blockchain space for charities: https://medium.com/bpfoundation/blockchain-applications-charitable-giving-a3c50837f464
What is a charity? https://www.ionos.com/startupguide/get-started/what-is-a-charity/
Unit tests are written in as-pect and simulation tests are written in ava (using near-workspaces-ava).
$ yarn # Install dependencies
$ yarn build # Build debug contracts (WASM files) - NOT YET SUPPORTED
$ yarn build:release # Build release contracts (WASM files)
$ yarn test # Run all tests
$ yarn test:unit # Run unit tests
$ yarn test:simulate # Run simulation tests
$ yarn test:simulate:testnet # Run simulation tests on testnet$ ./scripts/0.deploy-factory.sh # Deploys the contract
$ ./scripts/1.add-donation-account.sh # Creates a new donation account
$ ./scripts/2.send-donation.sh # Send a donation to the donation account
$ ./scripts/3a.withdraw-donations.sh # Withdraw donations to the charity account
$ ./scripts/3b.withdraw-fees.sh # Withdraw platform fees to an owner account
$ ./scripts/x.cleanup.sh # Cleanup the environmentThis project is composed of two contracts.
The factory contract exists to create, delete and list donation accounts, and receive platform fees.
- Creates, deletes and lists instances of Donate contract (mycharity.factory.near).
- Receives platform fees from Donate contract.
- Contract authors can withdraw platform fee.
The donate contract is created for each charity, receiving donations, facilitating withdrawals, and sending platform fees.
- Receives donations from any account (myname.near), and returns award tokens.
- Charities can withdraw to charity's account (mycharity.near).
- Sends platform fee to Factory contract (factory.near).
Allow donors to stake NEAR in charities, whereby charities claim the staking rewards. If people want to hold their NEAR but still donate, they can stake their NEAR in a charity, giving all staking rewards to that charity.
Give donors an equivalent quantity of a token that shows how much they have donated to a charity. This could either be a platform-wide token (stored in the factory contract), or a charity-specific token (stored in the donate contract). Charities may give benefits or rewards to donors who hold certain amounts of their token.
Enable factory-owned donation contracts to boost growth. Donation accounts could be created on behalf of charities, and with a disclaimer, we send any donations on to that charity. Perhaps we can integrate with DeFi to facilitate cross-chain donations (some charities may already accept donations on other blockchains). Unsure how this would best work with fiat.
1% for the planet, 1% for the platform philosophy. Would be great to integrate with NEAR projects like Open Forest Protocol (OFP) to automatically commit a further 1% of donations to support their projects.
Here are some of the resources used when creating this project:
- YouTube: NEAR from Scratch: AssemblyScript Project Setup
- GitHub: starter--near-sdk-as
- GitHub: NCD.L1.sample--meme-museum
- GitHub: simulation-testing
- StackOverflow: Contract Predecessor vs Signer vs Current
- NEAR Docs: AssemblyScript
- NEAR Docs: Deploy Smart Contracts to MainNet
- NEAR Docs: Source Code Survey