For the entire history of Cosmos, Ethermint tokens have been perceived as valuable. This perceived value has cursed the project and allowed for value accrual to take place elsewhere.
There is a lot of tortured intellectual property history.
Ethermint may or may not be GPL’d software because of the ambiguities in go-ethereum’s LGPL license.
A person completely unaffiliated with Cosmos owns the EU Trademark. ETHERMINT Trademark of Christopher Harborne. Application Number: 013850491 :: Trademark Elite Trademarks
All in Bits filed for Trademark for Ethermint after losing all staff with expertise to complete the project in 2020.
https://uspto.report/TM/90076755
Ultimately I think the name Ethermint should be abandoned for this project. We need Fede to complete this software because he is literally the only person who can.
If All in Bits decides to use the software with the Ethermint trademark, they will decide on the token allocation.
Chainsafe feels like they should get some allocation of tokens for their somewhat marginal contributions to Ethermint.
Fede should provide ATOM holders with a distribution for any go to market work.
Even if we were to try and put some kind of protective provision into the governance proposal, they wouldn’t be enforceable in any meaningful way. The only real enforcement is Fede and his personal reputation and fair dealings with the ATOM holders.
I would certainly like to anchor this discussion as to what kind of minimium stake in the token Fede will do GTM for would ATOM holders feel is fair?
My mental model is 10-20%.