Governance Consensus: Only Elected Officers May Represent the Will of the Chain

Discussion: https://commonwealth.im/evmos/discussion/8698-governance-consensus-only-elected-officers-may-represent-the-will-of-the-chain

Will Evmos Choose Its Own Executives?

If this proposal passes: Evmos governance decisions may be implemented by legitimate elected officers.

If this proposal does not pass: until the rejection is overturned, the Evmos chain may be represented by anybody and/or nobody.

Advantages of Adopting

Non-exhaustive list of what is obtained, improved, or encouraged by passing this proposal:

• provide transparency of:
  • power structure
  • actions done for the benefit of the chain
• provide evidence of decentralization
• clarify the assignment of responsibility
• welcome cooperation with other chains
• obtain delegation of representation
• expand the types of actions the chain can govern
• legitimize legal representation
• legitimize officers using the chain itself (increased independence of legitimacy)

Measures

• 1. Only officers elected by on-chain governance may implement the decisions of the chain in the name of the chain.
• 2. Offices must be concretely defined and created via on-chain governance before nomination and election of each respective office occurs.
• 3. Officers must not exceed their jurisdiction (as defined by on-chain governance above).
• 4. Public and private communication channels, with open-door policies, must be concretely defined for each office.
• 5. All offices, their enacting officers and communication channels must be publicly available.

Current State

Evmos Governance infrastructure (The Evmos Commonwealth site and Evmos Discord) is controlled by an unofficial group of unknown actors, who have already started censoring governance posts at their discretion.

Authors

• Christian Tzurcanu, volunteer for The Laurel Project. Efforts performed for The InterChain Pact office.
• Black Lodge, Evmos benefactor.