thanks for that post Elijah
and for the (surestimated!) shoutout (:
really glad you wrote this. finally, we can say at least Atom and more broadly Cosmos are still attracting well-made-minds !
just my two cents on «optimistic governance»:
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the oversight committee needs to be truly independant. we’re often seeing oversights members that are, even with no direct conflict of interests, in the close circle of parallel projects, validators with interests into competitors, or multi-hats folk. We should avoid that. That’s complicated but we should.
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the committees must have a define mandate period. every X months, the general governance should be able to renew/“fire” them. Even if the objectives one should last longer.
There is not enough rotation imo, in many aspects of the current gov model (same for how valsets work imo but another topic!).
The oversight committees should be diversified. Technical folks obviously, economists, lawyers, but also… people with cultural ethos. Philosophical strengths. And why not…RWA (Real World Agent) who have nothing to do with blockchains in general.
Anyway. Thanks again, i hope this “note” is going to be used as a let’s do it fellas piece.
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