Vested DXD calculator

vested-dxd-calculator is an utility program that DXdao contributors can use to calculate how much DXD they're owed for their services.

Installation

macOS and Linux

For macOS and Linux, installing should be as easy as opening a terminal and running:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luzzif/vested-dxd-calculator/main/install.sh | sh

The installer will ask you for your account's password in order to be able to move the binary to /usr/local/bin. If you don't trust the installation script with sudo access, you can simply download the correct binary for your platform (remember to pick the arm64 version for Mac if you have the M1 chip) from the latest release and manually put it into /usr/local/bin, renaming it to vested-dxd-calculator and making it executable (sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/vested-dxd-calculator). After doing so, you should see the command being picked up by whatever shell you like to use.

Windows

Windows installation instructions will be added in the future.

Usage

vested-dxd-calculator takes 4 parameters as input:

• --from: the date from which the selected period starts from (dd-mm-yyyy format).
• --to: the date in which the selected period ends (dd-mm-yyyy format)
• --level: the level the worker was/is at in the specified period.
• --full-time-percentage: the percentage of time the worker was active in the specified period (1 to 100, supporting decimal values).
• --trial: pass this flag if the specified period represented a trial (50% of the full payment).

Additionally, you can run vested-dxd-calculator --help to check out all the possible options while using the binary.

How it works

The binary treats pre and post 2022 periods differently due to changes in the salary structure.

Generally speaking, a period cannot start in 2021 and finish in 2022 due to these changes, and in order to perform calculations on the salary, the period cannot be longer than a month.

The compensation tables used for the calculations are the following:

Pre-2022:

Post-2022:

When specifying a period, the program calculates the amount of working days in the month starting from the specified from date and confronts it with the amount of working days in the specified period, in order to calculate a multiplier that will be used to determine the actual USD salary value in the specified period.

Example:

All date are expressed in dd-mm-yyyy format

• from: 01-10-2020
• to: 10-10-2020
• level: 3
• full-time-percentage: 100
• trial: false

Working days in the full month from 01-10-2020 to 01-11-2020 as calculated by the binary: 22. Working days in the period as calculated by the binary: 7. The USD value of the salary given out in the period, at level 3 will then be calculated as to be 4000 * 7 / 22 = ~1272.7273.

Now, depending on the other parameters, the salary can be further affected. If the --trial flag is active, the salary will be half of what is would originally have been, while depending on the --full-time-percentage value the salary can be further reduced.

After determining the USD value of the salary, the amount of DXD is determined following 2 separate logics depending on the given period of time:

• Pre-2022, the DXD ATH vs USD in the start of the given period is simply determined and DXD given out depending on that value.
• Post-2022, the DXD value in USD at the --from date is used and DXD given out depending on that value.

In both cases, the Covalent API is used to fetch pricing data (Coingecko being the ultimate price source).

Being that Coingecko is used for price data, no price prior to 20-05-2020 is available and the binary will fail in determining the DXD amount to be given