On March 27th, the “Chen Jiu Biggie Talk” column invited the Asch chain COO Zhang Detao to share on the WeChat group the topic of “Where is the way for the community reform of the blockchain project?”

The following is the sharing of all content

Thank you for your invitation. The blockchain industry is currently a new industry and is still in its infancy. Everyone is exploring the industry community operating model.

To analyze this issue, we must first look back at the essence of blockchain technology. What does it change, productivity or production?

The birth of blockchain technology solves the problem of trust, that is, the POW mechanism in the Bitcoin era, resulting in the collaboration of the whole people and forming an ecological organizational form. In this sense, blockchain technology is a subversive transformational technology that changes the relationship of production and subverts the existing organizational structure of the company for more than 400 years.

Why do I say that? Compared with the current corporate system, company employees are based on the employment system, while community members and blockchain projects are based on the partnership system.

Today’s stockholders of listed companies or early investors are only a few people who can participate. But the community members of blockchain projects can reach millions or even tens of thousands, and these people hold the tokens of the entire blockchain projects. The community gathers a group of people with the same values. The members of these communities have a consensus on the blockchain projects. Everyone works together to contribute to the entire project. Everyone is doing something for themselves, not working for someone.

The token reward mechanism of the blockchain projects, which bring about changes in organizational relations, is an unprecedented subversion and innovation.

Of course, for such a brand new thing, various problems will be encountered in the early stages of development.

For example, the hot POW consensus mechanism has stipulated how to obtain token rewards based on the amount of computing power. This approach has resulted in a concentration of power in a few mines and reduced safety. The DPOS mechanism represents an interest, which is very good. But if the management mechanism is not perfect, it will easily cause multiple nodes to clump together to form various small centers, and also violate the spirit of the decentralization of blockchain.

Therefore, on the road to community reform, everyone is exploring. Because there is no precedent, everyone is grasping the essence of the entire blockchain and closing their eyes.

I joined the Asch operating team after the Spring Festival in 18 years. The Asch community is divided into four parts: the development team, the operations team, the 101 delegates, and the community’s ordinary investors. The development team and operations team are currently working together. The 101 Delegates Mechanism based on PDOS, with total 101 delegates, is the mainstay of the community. Ordinary community members include Asch’s evangelists, ordinary investors, and volunteers. At present, the blockchain industry is in an early stage. The consciousness and ideas of most community members cannot reach the state of complete self-governance of the community for the time being. Therefore, the development team and operations team are still taking the lead to guide the healthy development of the entire community.

With regard to the governance of the community, Asch has been exploring various ways and methods over the past year, focusing on the views of all parties in the community and exploring the mechanisms that are more appropriate for the development of the community at this stage.

The high-quality community operation is not management, but the development of a set of mature and orderly autonomy mechanisms, to fully unleash the potential of community members, encourage community members to contribute to the entire community, and increase the value of the entire community.

On the road to follow-up reform, it is necessary to establish an exit mechanism for the 101 mechanism and improve the vitality of the 101 delegate mechanism. If the contribution is enough, you can be one of 101 delegates. If someone contributes more than you, then he can replace your position. Improving the liquidity of the delegates can increase the vitality of the community and the enthusiasm of the community members.

Improve the 101 voting mechanism, build and perfect the proxy voting system. When you can vote, when you can’t vote, when you can withdraw your vote, whether you can vote by proxy, and what is the right of your vote, all of these must form a complete set of mechanism. Absolute fairness and justice are difficult to achieve, but we can achieve relative fairness and fairness by establishing some mechanisms.

Community contributions and rewards are open and transparent, leading 101 delegates to report regularly and all community members supervise. It can mobilize the enthusiasm of all the community members and achieve a relatively fair and just community atmosphere.

Community ordinary investors can enjoy dividends. The ownership of tokens generated by each node partly belongs to the node itself, and the other part is used for the promotion of the entire community. A portion of it will be used to reward non-node community members. They make a lot of contributions to reward them and form a good reward mechanism.

That’s what I’m sharing. Here’s the question and answer session.

What do you think is the impact of community operations on the price of the project Token on the market? Why?

If there is no community, the tokens are in the hands of the dealers and the price is controlled by a few people.

What is the impact of community operations on token price? This is based on the situation of each project and the impact is different. It needs to be determined based on certain data analysis. However, if there is no community and there is no community operation, the token cannot be circulated. If there is no circulation, what is the value of the token?

Are there any operating project communities that you feel particularly good? Why?

In the recent period of time, I have been studying the community operations of other projects. At present, there are two communities that I think are better. One is Dash and the other is NEO. The Dash community was first called the Dark and was changed to Dash in 2015. Dash is the world’s first decentralized self-service management organization with a decentralized budget management system that can defend against various attacks. This kind of innovation is the result of a consensus on the network proposal and ecological development. Its community node vote is a one-node-one-vote, and if the Yes vote minus No vote is greater than one-tenth of the total number of main nodes, the proposal is considered to be passed. If the total amount required for the proposal passed is higher than the amount of the current month’s budget, the proposal that has obtained the most votes will be given priority for funding. The sponsors of communities and proposals mainly interact through official forums and community-led websites to form a very healthy atmosphere.

The NEO is conducted through NEO developer community in China and NEO volunteer community organized by NEL. It makes full use of economic leverage to cultivate community developers and push projects to land. In addition, it adheres to the consistent principle that loyalty is greater than ability. It does not give members incentives, but gives them opportunities to develop with the team, which is equal to giving some resources.

What is Asch’s self-positioning? Why does Asch not have a clear development plan and a technical route plan, which I feel that it is walking and watching?

Regarding Asch’s self-positioning, I have been discussing with Asch’s CEO/CTO. We are very sure that the positioning of Asch chain is representative of the blockchain 3.0 era. It is a new generation of blockchain development platform based on the sidechain architecture.

Development plans and technical routes are being roadmaped and will be announced in the community. It is also hoped that friends of the Asch community or friends of the non-Asch community can give comments, and we will adjust them according to the opinions.

Asch has proposed a “5 1” plan this year. We can see in Asch’s Wechat Public Account that we are working on this goal from all dimensions.

Asch’s current side-chain applications are now a number of small games and light applications. What is the applicable direction of the side-chain applications on Asch?

There are currently 8 side-chain applications on Asch, which can be viewed on the official website.

Asch is a representative of the blockchain 3.0 era. It is a new generation of blockchain development platform based on the sidechain architecture. Asch was initially designed to lower the barrier to entry for developers. With the use of JavaScript as its application programming language, the platform makes use of relational databases to store data, drawing similarities between developing a DAPP and developing a traditional web application. This type of platform carries a great deal of appeal to developers, as well as small and medium enterprises, since its ease of use results in greater productivity, fuelling and facilitating a more prosperous ecosystem in the process. Asch is open in design and is not limited to a subdivision area, such as finance, file storage, copyright certification, etc. The APIs provided are relatively low level and abstract, and they can be freely combined to achieve various different applications.

Nowadays, there are many groups of blockchain, but many of them finally become advertising groups and zombie groups. What do you think about this phenomenon?

This problem is not just a problem with decentralized blockchain projects. In fact, this is a problem of community stickiness. A community group becomes advertising group and zombie group because there is no consensus. People don’t have a unified value. Nothing can make people interact.

This phenomenon does not just exist in blockchain industry. In the past, a lot of groups had been organized, but for a long time, everyone did not have interactive topics. Without stickiness, they would become advertising groups and zombie groups.

In a blockchain project, the community is very important. It is necessary to have interaction and form stickiness. With stickiness, the community naturally becomes active and it will not become advertising groups and zombies groups.

Which is better for the free community and the paid community?

I don’t see much difference between the free community and the paid community. But in today’s business model, people are more willing to believe what they pay for. There’s no free lunch, you’re a little bit more skeptical for some free stuff. For example, if the same file is shared in a free group, people will not pay too much attention. If you spend a certain amount of money on a community to get the document, I think you’ll have more time and energy to study the document. Because everyone’s time is now fragmented, it takes a little price to invest in researching documents with a certain amount of energy.

What do you think is the general problem of project community operation? What is the pain point?

At present, the common problem in the operation of all project communities is over-centralization, and everyone’s thinking is still a tradition. The other is how to establish a good community mechanism.

The pain point is how to achieve a relatively fair and transparent community atmosphere. It is impossible for everyone to be satisfied with a system. And the blockchain project is not for everyone to agree. It is OK if the consensus is greater than 51%. The same is true for community operations. With the support of most people, we can reform in this area. Of course, each project has its own characteristics, and it is necessary to discuss the appropriate project on the background characteristics of each project. The direction of the plan is to establish a kind of good mechanism and achieve a kind of organizational form of fairness and self-government in the community.

For a project, project party often communicates with investors about the progress of technology development. However, in the actual process, investors generally have high expectations, and technology development faces great uncertainties. How to balance the relationship between the two?

This problem is more common. Like EOS and NEO, they all have encountered this problem. In the process of technology development, the project party will do route planning, and make approximate time planning according to the technological development at that time. However, there are many uncertainties in technology, and it is very difficult for them to complete the plan on schedule. Therefore, investors need to understand more and maintain patience with the project party. Developers also have to announce the progress of the project in real time, allowing investors to understand the problems that arise during the development of the project and the difficulties they face.

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