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Culturestake

Culturestake is a web-based voting and connection application for decentralized cultural decision-making and investment. It uses blockchain-based quadratic voting to gather community preferences about local cultural activity and connect artists and cultural organizations with information about what matters in their locality.

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Understand the project

Practical overview

When it fits

Use Culturestake when a community or cultural organization wants a blockchain-based quadratic-voting process for local cultural choices and has the technical capacity to run the application.

Who it is for

  • Communities seeking input on local cultural activities.
  • Artists and cultural organizations involved in collaborative arts commissioning.
  • Developers or organizations able to self-host a JavaScript application with PostgreSQL.

Documented uses

  • Collect community preferences about the kinds of cultural activity people want locally.
  • Support shared decisions between communities and artists about cultural programming.
  • Give cultural organizations information about local interests to inform commissioning and investment.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The project is a public repository licensed under AGPL-3.0. The README documents a Node 14 environment and PostgreSQL database as requirements.

  • The documented voting use case is cultural decision-making and investment, not broad-purpose governance.
  • Local development requires Node 14, PostgreSQL, database setup and a client-asset build.
  • The README points to a separate repository for local Docker development support.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Prepare a local development environment

Install the application dependencies, initialize its database and build the client assets required before starting the local server.

Before you start

  • Node 14 environment
  • PostgreSQL database

Steps

  1. Install dependencies with the command below and copy .env.example to .env for local development.

    Documented command
    npm install

  2. Initialize the database with the command below and the command below.

    Documented command
    npm run db:migrate
    Documented command
    npm run db:seed

  3. Build the client assets with the command below, or use the command below to rebuild them as changes are made.

    Documented command
    npm run client:build
    Documented command
    npm run client:watch

  4. Start the local server and watch for changes with the command below.

    Documented command
    npm run server:watch

Expected outcome

A locally prepared development instance with initialized database data and client assets, followed by the local server process.

Guide limitations

  • The README requires client assets to be built at least once before running the local server or tests.
  • The documented seed process creates an initial admin user for development; the README does not describe production account configuration.
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16 October 2026
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bitspossessed/culturestake · Official homepage title · retained in its source language
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