All power to the AE community! This has been a long-hanging topic and it’s about time we face this next milestone in æternity history: GOVERNANCE.
To get comprehensive voting outcomes, first, a clear set of mechanisms and protocols must be in place. And as a member of the æternity community (yes, you), your voice is important to the evolution of the platform and therefore, in establishing the framework needed for it to succeed.
Pre-vote:
It is suggested to create a dedicated voting forum post in the PoS On-Chain Governance forum category.
Discussions can be done on the Forum in order to narrow down options for governance votes. In this regard, you, the community can also propose a process.
Voting Framework:
We want you, the community, to decide on the most important parameters to qualify what makes a vote valid. Here are some general indications which can be elaborated in follow-up votes if desired by the community:
1. Minimum duration of a legitimate voting:
- 1 week
- 2 weeks
- 1 month
- longer than one month
- less than one week
- This voting parameter is not needed
2. Minimum number of votes for a legitimate voting:
- 10 votes
- 20 votes
- 50 votes
- 100 votes
- 200 votes
- More than 200 votes
- Less than 10 votes
- This voting parameter is not needed
3. Quorum for a legitimate voting result:
- 51% yes
- 60% yes
- 75% yes
- 90% yes
- 100% yes
- This voting parameter is not needed
4. Minimum representation of total tokenholders (in %):
- 0.5%
- 1%
- 2%
- 5%
- 10%
- More than 10%
- Dynamic: Voters need to claim voting tokens every month to participate (to be specified in follow up votes if selected)
- This voting parameter is not needed
5. Should known exchange addresses be blacklisted from voting?
- Yes
- No
If there are other parameters that should be considered, please comment below.
Voting Aftermath:
The voting framework is supposed to help make polls more useful and effective for making decisions by anyone in the æcosystem. Grant applications and project proposals can be written based on the outcome of such polls. For example, a grant application for the specific voting topic could be created to make changes on the protocol level, and then another voting would need to be made so the community can approve the work when it is done. Then miners could decide to implement the changes that were signaled by the community. This way, polls can help to create meaningful changes, but of course actions can also be taken by anyone in the æcosystem without a prior voting. In any case, the forum thread should always be updated on the developments around the vote.
The discussion starts here, but please join this Friday’s Superhero League episode June 12th at 4 PM CEST. There will be a panel on the governance mechanics and this is a good opportunity to converse live about things that really matter for the AE community.
Please post here if you want to participate as a speaker on Friday or if you want to change any of the voting questions (1-5). I will create the 5 polls for the new Governance Framework on Superhero.com by Friday morning CEST so we can get this going. I suggest to set these framework votings for 2 weeks if no one here thinks differently.