Historical Background

Back in June 2018, when Tron’s MainNet was launched, a new figure was introduced to the community (Tron’s GRs — Genesis Representatives).

The genesis representative played an important role at the beginning of Tron, in addition to boot the network in its initial phase, ensuring its stability and availability, they were also responsible for protecting against possible attacks by malicious groups that could tried to control the network, as at that time, most of the TRX were still locked in exchanges. The 100 millions votes physical barrier imposed to GRs, made the network control expensive prohibitive.

Since then, the community has begun to participate in the elections for official Super Representatives (SRs) of the network. Several groups were formed, each with its own characteristics, and one by one they were elected surpassing the physical barrier imposed by the 100 million votes. Giving birth to the so called Constitutional Phase.

Current Progress

CryptoGuyInZa (Tron Elected Super Representative), initiated on October 30th a proposal to remove GRs power, which got 16 SR votes from the 19 required to be approved. Some SRs did not like the idea of this proposal, which is absolutely fine, we do respect their option and don’t want to interfere, after all, we don’t need to agree in all aspect. But some SRs were not aware of the voting, and some just didn’t understand what it is about.

So, after the unsuccessful proposal it was discussed among Tron SR in more detail and was decided to put this proposal forward again. The proposal has therefore been created again, was created at November 5th, 2018 4:47 AM UTC and will end at November 8th, 2018 6:00AM UTC.

CryptoChain has noticed from past proposals that many voters from the community requesting a live view on the progress of the proposals. CryptoChain created a live view of current proposal and will also reflect past proposals. The community can then follow progress of the proposals here: https://bit.ly/2zni8vi

Technical detail on proposal for GR removal

Tron’s SR vote on proposals by index number. The “REMOVE THE POWER OF THE GR” is index 10. One can vote with parameter value 1 (to approve), or (0 to remove approval).

The votes are counting at the end of the voting cycle, just after the proposal expires. If the proposal reaches 2/3+1 approvals of the current elected SRs (19 votes), it will be executed.

This specific proposal parameter execution is implemented just before witness votes are counted, and can be found here: https://bit.ly/2ztmqBt

The number of votes removed from each Genesis Representative is equal to the number of votes during the launch of MainNet, stored in the Genesis Block. The amount for each GR is configured in here: https://bit.ly/2RxM9A5

The GR votes will only be removed once.

We focus here on facts. The analysis should be done by each tron SR and discussed in appropriate forums