Court Dashboard
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The Aragon Court Dashboard is the central app where all dispute-related tools are available for guardians. It also contains detailed information about past and current disputes, including arguments, rulings, timelines, and much more.
The following guide presents an overview of the various sections of the Dashboard.
You need to connect your Ethereum account to the Aragon Court Dashboard to use your app. To do so, simply click on the Connect account button at the upper right and select the provider of your choice.
On the top of the dashboard, you can see a countdown timer for the current Court Term. Time in Aragon Court is measured in Court Terms, and each term lasts for 8 hours.
Occasionally you may see a message on this countdown timer that says "Term needs updating".
Aragon Court guardians can sign up for email notifications to be notified of important events, such as when they have been drafted to a dispute, task reminders, and more.
Email notifications are important so that as a guardian you do not miss out on any important tasks.
It is strongly recommended that you sign up for email notifications and monitor them closely while you are an active guardian. If you fail to complete your tasks on time, you will lose your money.
To opt-in, click the ** _gear-shaped**_ Settings icon in the top corner and click _**Notifications**_.
Click Unlock notification settings. Sign the message on the prompt to prove ownership of your Ethereum address, so that you can modify your notification settings.
Once you have proven ownership of your address, you will be able to enter your email address to opt-in to notifications.
After entering your email address, a verification email will be sent to your email address (if you don't see it in the inbox, check the Spam folder). Click the link in the verification email to confirm your address.
After you successfully verify your email address, click the x button in the top corner to close the notification verification window then re-enable your Ethereum account on the main Dashboard page.
You will then be able to go back to the Notifications section of the Settings menu to manage your notification subscription.
The first section you will see at the top of the Dashboard contains your token balance information.
This section is divided into three columns:
My wallet
Inactive
Active
Each column contains its history of recent actions executed in the last 24 hours.
Two actions are available when you have an inactive balance:
Withdraw: Withdraws a specified portion of the inactive tokens to your wallet.
Activate: Activates a specified portion of the inactive tokens and transfers it to the Active section.
They determine your probability of being drafted as a guardian. The higher the amount, the higher the probability.
Subscription rewards are directly proportional to active tokens.
To incentivize consensus decisions and honest behaviors, a portion of your active tokens are locked when drafted for a dispute and you can get rewarded or penalized depending on the final ruling.
The Deactivate button can be used to transfer tokens to an inactive state.
Tokens do not get deactivated immediately, but only at the start of the next term (reminder here that each term currently lasts for 8 hours). You can still be drafted to rule on a dispute before your tokens are deactivated. After you rule on the dispute, your deactivated tokens will enter an inactive state.
The more tokens you have activated relative to the rest of the tokens other guardians have activated, the higher the probability will be.
You can quickly see every task assigned to you along with their due date in the ** _Upcoming Tasks**_ section of the main page. A page dedicated to tasks is also available by clicking the _**Tasks**_ menu item in the left side panel.
If you are concerned about missing important tasks, don't worry, if you signed up for email notifications then notifications about your tasks will be sent directly to your email inbox.
Summon Guardians: This task must be executed at the beginning of a round to select the guardians. Anyone can execute this task by clicking on the Summon Guardians button of the dispute. A small DAI reward is granted for successfully executing the task.
Commit vote: One of the most important tasks in Aragon Court. When a guardian is drafted to adjudicate a dispute, their duty is to review the submitted arguments and commit a vote within the voting period limit. Failure to execute this action would penalize the guardian.
Reveal vote: Since votes are secret until the end of the voting period, a task is also needed in order for the ruling to be revealed. However, an option is available to make this task fully automated.
Appeal ruling: Once the ruling is revealed, it can be appealed by anyone who disagrees with its result. Be aware that you need to lock an amount of DAI to appeal a ruling. You will get rewarded if the ruling ends up turning in your favor at the end of the dispute.
Confirm appeal: To officially appeal a ruling and launch a new adjudication round, a second account also needs to lock an amount of DAI to confirm that there is indeed a need for an appeal.
Execute ruling: If no appeal has been requested and confirmed within their respective periods of time, the "Execute ruling" task is available to finalize the dispute.
Rewards can be obtained in multiple ways, both as a guardian and as a normal user.
Subscription fees: You earn a monthly reward, in DAI, proportional to your active tokens, whether you are drafted or not.
Dispute fees: If drafted, you earn reward for ruling in favor of the dispute's final ruling.
Maintenance action fees: Certain tasks (e.g. draft jury) reward the user with a small amount of DAI.
Appeal Fees: Anyone can earn a reward in DAI for successfully appealing a dispute (i.e. correctly predicting a dispute's final ruling).
As mentioned above, through subscription fees activated guardians can earn a monthly reward, in DAI, proportional to their active tokens, whether they are drafted or not.
Subscription rewards can be claimed by guardians after each Court period.
Since subscription rewards are computed based on the active tokens each guardian has, we need to define a checkpoint in the whole Court period to check these balances and assign a portion of all the subscription fees to each guardian.
Because a guardian's balance can change during each period, to avoid gaming we are using the randomness assigned to the first Court term of the following period, i.e. a future event that cannot be known beforehand.
This effectively means that the longer guardians keep their tokens activated, the higher their chances to receive a portion of the subscription fees being assigned among them.
So, to increase your chances of receiving subscription rewards after each Court period, you should keep your tokens activated as long as possible.
A dedicated page can be accessed by clicking the Disputes** ** menu item in the side panel where you will see a list of disputes related to your account as well as every other past and active dispute.
By clicking on one of them, you will get redirected to a page containing all the relevant details to this specific dispute, like its current status, description, timeline, and arguments.
Additionally, every single task related to a dispute can be executed from here.
The Dashboard is accessible to all users at . General information and statistics are available on the main page as well as more specific information related to disputes, tasks, and guardians on their respective pages.
Aragon hosts the Aragon Court Dashboard instance at and runs an automated service that will automatically update the Court within a couple of hours of the term ending, so this message can be disregarded.
Remember that if you do not complete the required tasks, you will lose a portion of your locked tokens (more info about this ).
to learn more about the different types of rewards.
to learn more about disputes.
Click for more information about committing votes.
Click to learn more about revealing votes.
Learn more about appeals.
Learn more about appeal confirmation
to learn more about final rulings.
Ruling fees: The locked tokens of guardians who voted in the minority in a given dispute are redistributed to guardians who voted in the according to the final ruling. Ruling fees are automatically transferred to your inactive wallet.
Click for further information about ruling fees.
Click for further information about appeal fees.
for a complete guide about the lifecycle of disputes and what you need to do as a guardian to manage them.
