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Welcome to Tansu!

Tansu is a governance and versioning layer for open source projects, built on the Stellar blockchain. It brings transparency, security, and decentralized decision-making to software development by combining on-chain project tracking, a powerful DAO, and a flexible badge-based membership system.

What is Tansu?​

Tansu complements platforms like GitHub by providing:

  • On-chain project registration: Projects are registered and tracked on Stellar, with commit hashes and metadata verifiable by anyone.
  • Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO): Every project gets its own DAO, enabling maintainers and contributors to propose, vote, and execute decisions transparently.
  • Badge-based membership: Roles and voting power are managed through on-chain badges, reflecting real project contributions.
  • Integration with Soroban Domains: Project names are protected and mapped to Soroban Domains, preventing squatting and ensuring authenticity.
  • Open, auditable governance: All actions—adding maintainers, updating metadata, voting—are recorded on-chain.

Distinction with GitHub​

Tansu does not replace GitHub (or your preferred hosting solution) – it complements it. While GitHub excels at hosting, sharing code, and managing change requests, Tansu brings on-chain governance, versioning, and decentralized decision-making. In other words, Tansu adds a transparent, auditable layer for project governance and commit verification, so you can build with confidence on open source.

Key Features​

  • Project versioning: Track and verify the latest commit hash for any project, with links to the canonical code repository.
  • DAO proposals: Submit, discuss, and vote on proposals (public or anonymous voting), with weighted votes based on badges.
  • Membership & badges: Register as a member, earn badges for your contributions, and participate in governance.
  • Automated workflows: Use Git hooks to sync commit hashes on-chain, and let the dApp handle signatures and wallet integration.
  • Anonymous voting: Advanced cryptographic voting with BLS12-381 commitments for privacy-preserving governance.

Learn More​

Tansu is fully open source and under active development. Join us on GitHub and help shape the future of decentralized open source governance!