Governance in Action

Another engaging panel at the start of the day covered the topic of governance. Jacob Arluck (TQ), Marco Stronati (Nomadic Labs), and Adrian Brink (Cryptium Labs) came together to update us on the progress of the Athens amendment and discuss the future of protocol governance.

As Marco pointed out — Athens was all about demonstrating that the Tezos on-chain governance mechanism could work. While that demonstration is showing encouraging progress — Jacob pointed out that there is a need for better tools to discuss and signal preferences. He is also looking forward to a vote in the medium-to-long term in which the community effectively strikes down a very bad proposal.

Adrian also touched on the Cryptium’s controversial Burebrot proposal. He noted the mixed reaction from the community and stressed that they were not offering just one overarching proposal, but rather that these were the set of features they are interested in exploring. He also said that it is in the network’s best interest for protocol developers to cooperate rather than compete in these early governance cycles.