discourse/discovery/refined/SMART_CONTRACT.md

## Enhancing the Smart Contract

Your process involves a clear progression: **Perspectives** (raw opinions stored on IPFS), **Synthesis** (AI-generated Insights), **Consensus** (community voting), **Contributions** (validated Insights), and **Resolutions** (final recommendations for policymakers). The smart contract should manage this flow, ensuring transparency, immutability, and community participation. Here’s what it should do and the methods it needs:

### What the Smart Contract Should Do
- **Store Submissions**: Record Perspectives with their IPFS hashes, linked to specific issues, and track submitters (anonymously if needed).
- **Facilitate Insight Proposals**: Allow authorized entities (e.g., moderators or AI oracles) to propose Insights based on Perspectives.
- **Enable Voting**: Let the community vote on Insights to reach Consensus.
- **Validate Contributions**: Accept Insights as Contributions once they meet a voting threshold.
- **Compile Resolutions**: Aggregate Contributions into a final Resolution for policymakers.
- **Ensure Transparency**: Emit events for every step so actions are trackable off-chain.
- **Control Access**: Restrict certain actions (e.g., proposing Insights) to authorized roles while keeping the system open for participation.

### Additional Smart Contract Methods
Here are the key methods to implement this functionality:

1. **`submitPerspective`**  
   - **Purpose**: Lets users submit their raw opinions (Perspectives).
   - **Inputs**: `ipfsHash` (string, the IPFS hash of the Perspective), `issueId` (string, identifies the proposed law or issue).
   - **Action**: Stores the Perspective, links it to the submitter’s address, and emits an event.
   - **Example**: A user submits "I think taxes should fund more public parks."

2. **`proposeInsight`**  
   - **Purpose**: Allows Insights to be proposed after AI synthesis of Perspectives.
   - **Inputs**: `description` (string, the Insight text), `perspectiveIds` (array of Perspective IDs used to form the Insight).
   - **Action**: Records the Insight, ties it to relevant Perspectives, and emits an event.
   - **Example**: An AI proposes "Most users support increased park funding as a tax priority."

3. **`voteOnInsight`**  
   - **Purpose**: Enables community voting on Insights to reach Consensus.
   - **Inputs**: `insightId` (uint, the Insight’s ID), `support` (boolean, true for yes, false for no).
   - **Action**: Updates the vote count and emits an event; may include checks to prevent double-voting.
   - **Example**: Users vote on the park funding Insight.

4. **`acceptContribution`**  
   - **Purpose**: Validates an Insight as a Contribution once Consensus is reached.
   - **Inputs**: `insightId` (uint, the Insight’s ID).
   - **Action**: Checks if the vote count meets a threshold (e.g., 50% of voters), marks it as accepted, and emits an event.
   - **Example**: The park funding Insight becomes a Contribution.

5. **`compileResolution`**  
   - **Purpose**: Combines Contributions into a final Resolution.
   - **Inputs**: `resolution` (string, the compiled text).
   - **Action**: Records the Resolution and emits an event for off-chain use (e.g., sending to policymakers).
   - **Example**: "Recommend tax allocation for parks" is compiled.

### Example Smart Contract Code
Here’s a simplified version to illustrate:

```solidity
contract LegislationCrowdsourcing {
    struct Perspective {
        string ipfsHash;    // IPFS hash of the raw opinion
        string issueId;     // Identifies the issue or law
        address submitter;  // Submitter’s address
    }

    struct Insight {
        string description;    // Insight text
        uint256 perspectiveCount;  // Number of Perspectives it’s based on
        uint256 voteCount;     // Number of supporting votes
        bool accepted;         // True if it becomes a Contribution
    }

    mapping(uint256 => Perspective) public perspectives;
    mapping(uint256 => Insight) public insights;
    uint256 public perspectiveCount;
    uint256 public insightCount;

    event PerspectiveSubmitted(uint256 id, string ipfsHash, string issueId, address submitter);
    event InsightProposed(uint256 id, string description);
    event VotedOnInsight(uint256 insightId, address voter, bool support);
    event ContributionAccepted(uint256 insightId);
    event ResolutionCompiled(string resolution);

    function submitPerspective(string memory ipfsHash, string memory issueId) public {
        perspectives[perspectiveCount] = Perspective(ipfsHash, issueId, msg.sender);
        emit PerspectiveSubmitted(perspectiveCount, ipfsHash, issueId, msg.sender);
        perspectiveCount++;
    }

    function proposeInsight(string memory description, uint256[] memory perspectiveIds) public {
        insights[insightCount] = Insight(description, perspectiveIds.length, 0, false);
        emit InsightProposed(insightCount, description);
        insightCount++;
    }

    function voteOnInsight(uint256 insightId, bool support) public {
        if (support) {
            insights[insightId].voteCount++;
        }
        emit VotedOnInsight(insightId, msg.sender, support);
    }

    function acceptContribution(uint256 insightId) public {
        uint256 threshold = 100; // Example threshold
        if (insights[insightId].voteCount >= threshold) {
            insights[insightId].accepted = true;
            emit ContributionAccepted(insightId);
        }
    }

    function compileResolution(string memory resolution) public {
        emit ResolutionCompiled(resolution);
    }
}
```