[Feature Request] Usage of Proxies

[gilescope]

polkadot-wiki/docs/learn/learn-proxies.md is great at documenting how to create and destroy a proxy. It would be great if it answered some of the proxy usage questions:

will I see the funds of the original account in the proxied account if I am using a wallet / polkadot.js? If not, is there a way to see that the proxy has those funds under management? Eg. when voting through a proxy accout the brand ui only shows the dots that exist in the proxy accout and not also the proxied accout - we are left wondering if we vote will it count the proxied votes too or do we have to do anything extra? Is entering into a crowdloan any different? There's mention to check as far as rewards go but no mention of if one has to participate in the crowdloan using the ui or if one has to do it through polkadot.js's developer / extrinsics... Is nominating from a proxied account the same?

I am happy to raise a PR if we can come up with some good answers to these questions.

[salmad3]

Thanks for raising this @gilescope

Were you thinking like a "Use cases" or "Things to consider" type of sub-section under "Why Use a Proxy"?

[salmad3]

The questions are good, I believe this covers a little of everything

[gilescope]

Maybe a proxy usage faq? I suspect there’s a fair few questions. E.g. for the moonbeam crowdloan both the proxy and proxied address needed to be specified. I assume that’s probably a requirement for others too.

On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 15:06, Danny Salman @.***> wrote:

The questions are good, I believe this covers a little of everything

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[DrW3RK]

Seen on one of the community chat rooms - I'm trying to use the proxy now, but its confusing, even the docs don't seem to explain it: https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/maintain-guides-democracy#voting-with-a-governance-proxy

The docs can benefit from latest tutorials on how to use each proxy

[salmad3]

After looking at the state of this feature request, it seems this would be another task to try out in the 1KC pilot program, potentially finding a contributor who has experience with proxies.

[Imod7]

I noticed also that in the steps on how to add a proxy it mentions the addProxy(proxy, proxy_type) function and I think the function now is addProxy(delegate, proxyType, delay) so with different parameters. I double checked it in :

• PolkadotJS explorer > Developer > Extrinsics section and
• Substrate > Proxy Pallet