18 Jul What now for EdenonEOS?
LONDON (Bywire News) – The final meeting for the chief delegates has been a chance to reflect on a term which has been more challenging than many would have expected, but has ended with some solid achievements which leave Eden in a strong place moving forward.
Firstly, they took time to wrap up any remaining business starting with their individual updates, except for Gracie who has been suffering from a lost voice.
- Brock Pierce: Allocating all of the funding to proposals and Pomelo three grants.
- Michael: Edited and posted a chief delegate-sponsored Eden town hall on Discord. Meanwhile, he has been promoting the election and running the get-out-the-vote campaign.
- Chuck McDonald: Getting ready for the election. Communications are flowing more freely and Eden members can see what’s going on. He participated in several meetings over the week answering questions from the community about what their plans with the bylaws proposals are. He believes that this process can be used effectively in each circle enabling them to come together and get things done. On top of that, there is a lot of progress in the NFT circle and getting a generic MSIG together to establish these circles.
- Edgar Fernandez: Working through the smart contract changes made to enact the ratified bylaws. They have been fixing the registration membership fee bug and preparing for the election, making sure people know how they can register to ensure they have sufficient participation.
Update on the contract changes
Edgar’s tech team have proposed a MULTISIG and updated the election date and the registration fee. The team continues to work on a sortition pay feature, but that’s not going to be pushed before the election to limit the complexity of the system. Permission transfer will happen manually this time.
Dot Eden account creation
Chuck says this can happen manually right now, but they are trying to make a MSIG which they can modify for all the accounts and do it all in one. He hopes this can be executed before their term ends. The owner permissions for these circles would be genesis.eden which means all the chief delegates would have ownership of these circles and delegate active permissions to anyone who was going to take over ownership.
Transfer of Eden services
There are several services which allow the web app to run and for the elections to be run which would be transferred to the Eden chief delegates or whoever they appoint including the Eden GitHub repo which allows you to push code changes. That repo is extremely important and Fractally has already said they are looking to transfer that. The transfer will go to the tech lead currently and they would coordinate the transfer to the chief delegates. Alternatively, if this is not done before the election Fractally will transfer them in due course.
As current tech lead Edgar says he is happy to be the point person for now unless the new chief delegates want to appoint someone else.
Closing thoughts and recommendations
Aside from that, this was a chance to reflect on a busy three months which have seen real achievements including:
- Ratified previous bylaws
- Implemented tech and vote lead
- Recommended creation of Eden member services
- Increase of distribution from 5% to 15%.
- Implemented project design and wireframes for Eden delegate accounting system
- Securing the keys to genesis.eden to the current CDs and the keys to Eden namespace. They modified the existing contract demonstrating that this is a flexible democratic election process which decides what the future is.
- An expanded mission statement which ensures its continuity.
For Brock Pierce, progress has been hard to achieve, but the gains made by this set of delegates leave Eden in a much better position than they found it.
“I went into this to get a sense of where Eden was and it was not as far along as I had hoped, but having been here in this role I see the tremendous progress being made by the other chief delegates,” he said. “The circle implementation begins to build the pillars which will be the foundation of good governance. I think the work being done here is critical to the long-term success of EOS.”
Edgar, meanwhile, believed much of the first two months were taken up with firstly working out where they were and what their roles, should be, and setting out how they would fulfil the promises they made in their election. It was in a frantic third month they put these into action.
“The third month has been consumed by executing those bylaws. A shorter time period makes things way more challenging,” he said. “I understand we want to iterate and have as many elections as possible, but clearly it’s compressed the work which needs to be done and what we propose for the next set of chief delegates.”
Michael O’Sullivan took time to praise the work done by Dan Larimer and his team at Fractally as well as the initial work of the first set of chief delegates. It was, he said, much harder than he had thought, but their hard work had yielded solid results.
“We ratified and progress technical changes put forth to use by the inaugural chief delegates. We declared Eden on EOS independent and took necessary actions to deliver autonomy,” he said. “We debated conceived of, cost and remodelled the Eden treasury to allow us to deliver on the Eden member services with the very first instances of the circle services in action right now.”
Chuck, for his part, sees Eden as a work in progress, but one with enormous potential with its unique election progress serving as an incredibly exciting idea which can be used in all sorts of sectors.
“This election system is fun and if this was used more for different things, if we used it more often, and we are, it really brings out the best of people, it encourages collaboration, sharing of skills,” he says. “We see leaders in the community who didn’t know much about the process coming back into it. Eden is becoming a place for everybody in the EOSIO community to come together and draw out the nutrients which are in EOS and build something with it.”
Brock Pierce agreed, pointing out that his continued support of EOS would depend on the future strength of Eden.
“My faith and support of EOS depends on Eden. If Eden is not going to be a democratically governed ecosystem I don’t have faith in it,” he says. “We used to have technological superiority. Right now I’d say we’re about parity. What differentiates us at this point is this more than anything. There’s others with resources, with speed…. but this is the thing which really can separate this community from the others….. We are democratically governed.”
That will be an important issue for Eden going forward. It is a democratic organisation. It depends on the participation of the community to move forward and for that, it will need engagement. Equally, though, it will need to find its own feet.
The crashing token price and the inability to access its Treasury have made Eden dependent on the funding power of the ENF to run the most recent election. As Yves La Rose has since made clear, that’s not something he wants to be doing repeatedly. Any future support could depend on what direction Eden takes.
That in itself could be a threat to its democratic autonomy and the concept of decentralisation on which it’s run. As any other democratic institution shows – once exterior funding becomes critical it can warp the decisions democratic leaders take.
During this term, Eden declared its independence, but that will truly come when it can stand on its own two feet.
(Writing by Tom Cropper, editing by Klaudia Fior)