The following proposals are suggestions to help improve the EOS ecosystem in regards to resilience, diligence, and distribution.

Since these are just suggestions, all community feedback is welcome, both by users, block producers, block producer candidates, app developers, etc.

These suggestions are just some of the first ideas that have popped up after seeing the community, the issues that have risen, as well as the criticism that has been received, for the last few weeks.

Block Producers due-diligence

To ensure Block Producers are transparent, effective, and deserving of their rewards, I would invite the community to inquire and demand the following points of all Block Producers (BP)and Block Producer Candidates (BPC):

A functioning website with information about the team (names, pictures, contacts)

At least one active social media account to update news (alongside with the website) and answer questions, receive feedback, etc

Clear visible pictures of their hardware with at least one team member in sight to ensure they are not just renting cloud services or that the picture of their system is fake.

Disclosure of present distribution of rewards (if applicable) for employees, hardware maintenance, software protection, electricity costs, rent, etc.

Clear roadmap timeline for 1) use of future rewards, 2) hardware upgrading 3) software upgrading, 4)Community Q&A times

If you are a member of the community and are researching a BP or BPC and you notice they fail to meet any of these points, I would invite you to rethink voting for them.

Constitutional changes

Article XVII change: Replace auctioning with automatic renting

Description and rationale: If the goal is to prevent inactivity then instead of auctioning, the inactive coins should be put in the market for rent automatically after a certain period (could be the initial 3 years), and are able to be claimed back by the owner by signing a transaction when he/she returns.

If the owner cannot access coins, at least they’ll be earning something in the meantime. If the owner is lost forever, at least the coins will be useful and active for those wishing to power their apps.

The auctioning is stressing too many people and it’s also trivially easy to bypass by automating transactions in a certain timeframe. It’s better to focus on renting with immediate claim back since then everyone “wins” in a sense.

I would also imagine in the future the market would develop to distinguish between coins being rented from active accounts and inactive accounts, since the inactive account could come at any moment and claim back their coins, it’s likely the renting prices would be lower for inactive accounts.

2. Daily rewards for each BP to be programmed so that they cannot be used for voting for any BP or BPC during a period of 3–6 months

Description and rationale: This change would help prevent a negative feedback loop where BPs use their rewards to race each other to the top and cement their leadership as BPs, and given that EOS runs on a blockchain and every EOS can be accounted for and traced.

If the change would be only that they cannot vote for themselves with their own rewards, I suspect many would set up fake/proxy BPCs to receive those funds and wash them from any guilt, or they would vote those fake/proxy BPCs with those rewards directly. Thus, the added time period would help mitigate this.

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Implement the EOS New York ECAF Suggestions & Proposal

Description and rationale: The proposal by EOS New York (currently a BP) is in my opinion a good way to solve some of the uncertainty behind the current state of dispute resolution in the EOS community, especially considering the protection of user funds that may have been stolen.