# Snapshot

> Where decisions get made.

Snapshot is a governance platform that lets DAOs and Web3 communities create proposals and vote without paying gas fees.

Snapshot provides two governance systems for decentralized communities: an off-chain voting platform and an on-chain protocol. Users can configure customizable voting strategies, set proposal validation rules, and apply multiple voting mechanisms including single-choice, approval, and quadratic voting. Votes in the off-chain system are signed messages stored on IPFS, while Snapshot X executes approved proposals directly on-chain.

- Type: Project
- Sector: Infrastructure
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2020-08-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/snapshot

## Products

- [Snapshot](https://thegrid.id/profiles/snapshot): Snapshot is a gasless, off-chain governance platform for DAOs, DeFi protocols, and token communities. Organizations create governance spaces using an ENS domain and configure voting strategies — from ERC-20 token balances to NFT holdings and custom on-chain logic — to determine voting power. Proposals and votes are stored as signed messages on IPFS and Arweave, providing verifiable, tamper-resistant records. (DAO Management Platform, Live, Main Product)
- [Snapshot X](https://thegrid.id/profiles/snapshot): Snapshot X is an on-chain governance protocol built as a set of modular smart contracts for EVM chains and Starknet. The protocol computes voting power on-chain using storage proofs and automatically executes approved proposals without requiring additional human action. Spaces are deployed permissionlessly and support meta-transaction relayers for gas-free voting while retaining full censorship resistance. (DAO Management Platform, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://snapshot.org)
- [Blog](https://snapshot.mirror.xyz)
- [Documentation](https://docs.snapshot.box)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/MKDaqUBgjF)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/SnapshotLabs)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/snapshot-labs)

## Relationships

- [Checkpoint](https://thegrid.id/profiles/checkpoint): Subsidiary

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## Optional

- [TGS Field Descriptions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-field-descriptions.md): Schema field definitions for The Grid's data model
- [TGS JSON Structure](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-json-structure.md): Data model structure and relationships
- [Product Type Definitions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-definitions.md): Definitions for each product type
- [Product Type Classification](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-classification.md): Guide for classifying products into types
- [Grid MCP Guide](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/grid-search/skills/grid-query/references/grid-mcp-guide.md): How to query The Grid programmatically via MCP