KIP 13 - Immigration Policy

Goal: To recruit additional high-quality contributors to Kong via an immigration policy

Single Point of Contact: (Only 1 individual for Senate to reach out with questions, and to represent at Bi-weekly Forum.) #0027

Sponsors: Include folks planning to work on this proposal. Do not include folks who are just supportive of this proposal. #0027, #0048, #1002

Description: In order to rapidly increase the number of individuals contributing to secure element manufacturing and distribution, application development, and the growth of Kong as a crypto-state more broadly, we must implement a swift and clear path to citizenship. We wish to increase the amount of $CTZN authorized for distribution by the senate from 50 quarterly to 500 quarterly, giving the Senate a little over two years to distribute the current stock of $CTZN.

The alpha token currently prices out many potential citizens, and the nation’s stock of $CTZN token is locked in treasury, or otherwise distributed to alphas, until a formal proposal can be passed. Drawing inspiration from several other DAOs in the appendix, here we propose to offer multiple paths of entry into Kong:

For Chip Purchasers We wish to offer a fast path to entry for individuals who are already consuming and building on top of the Kong ecosystem. For individuals who order a batch of chips and sign content to them, we should make an earnest offer of citizenship

For Direct Buyers and DAOs In order to diversify the capital holdings of Kong, it is important to offer a more attractive entrypoint to individuals who are fans of Kong but who have not yet pulled together funds to purchase an alpha citizenship. This also provides a road to exchange governance tokens with other DAOs

For Secondary Market Buyers To create a secondary market to eliminate $CTZN dust amounts and off-ramp unhappy citizens, we propose to make a balancer pool denominated in $ETH, eventually $LAND

For Strategic Recruitment There are a number of individuals who have already contributed to KONG who deserve citizenship, but we have been unable to offer it to them, this allotment would be dedicated to a specific recruitment initiative

For Bounty Hunters There are a number of tasks that can be done on behalf of Kong by motivated individuals who desire citizenship, and as such we wish to allot tokens for the purpose of incensing bounty development and completion

For Hackathon Participants A strong element of the recruitment process to date has been conference attendance and in-person demonstrations. We wish to leverage this success with specific prizes of citizenship for hackathon participants.

For Developer Advocacy To drive greater awareness and understanding of KONG tech, its use cases, and more experimentaion and integrations, we need capable advocates who can effectively engage with technical audiences. We wish to incentivize the recruitment of these dev advocates with a small share of total citnzenship.

For Marketing Promotions It is difficult to build hype with only 250 citizens, we wish to incentivize evangelism and amplification with a small share of the total citizenship

It is worth noting that many citizens were in favor of a visa-like program or path to citizenship. An easy implementation of this program within the confines of this proposal is to make it practice to award fractional $CTZN to contributors, so that they may accrue $CTZN over time and convert to a full NFT once they have acquired a whole token. Such fractional tokens could also be used to gate access to the Discord.

Benefits: Increasing the supply of citizens contributing to the Kong mission will undoubtedly provide a diversity of new initiatives that will generate further demand for Halos and Silos, accelerate adoption and growth of the underlying technologies, and increase the capabilities of Kong as a whole.

Additionally, these tokens represent the capability to exchange governance tokens with other DAOs and potential collaborators, and to create demand for the existing tokens and contracts in the Kong ecosystem.

Success Metrics:

KPIs before proposal: NFT IDs over 1000: ~10 Average weekly forum attendance: 12 github/kong-org stars: 14

KPIs after proposal: NFT IDs over 1000: 20% growth in CTZN monthly Average weekly forum attendance: 15% growth monthly github/kong-org stars: 10% growth monthly

Success Confidence: (If this proposal was executed 100 times, how many times will it meet its goal?) 70%

Duration: Start: 2022.07.04 End: When the last $CTZN token has been issued

Tokens Requested: (Treasury control) (Treasury Guidance) $CTZN Total: 1500 For Chip Purchasers: 500 For Direct Sale and Exchange: 300 For Strategic Recruitment: 250 For Bounty Hunters: 200 For Hackathon Participants: 100 For Developer Advocacy: 50 For Marketing Promotions: 50 For Liquidity Pool: 50

(Request for needed resources to complete the proposal, e.g. ETH) $ETH Total: 0.30 For Expenses: 0.30

Token Distribution: (Sponsors’ control)

$CTZN 1_500 CTZN allocated as requested 500 CTZN to Senate quarterly for citizen referrals (“buddy drop”)

$ETH 0.30 Pay for balancer pool and swap fees If less, will be returned to DAO

RISKS: (Open to All Members)

By #0027 We have set an aggressive growth schedule here at 20% MoM, which could dilute some of the high quality we’ve come to expect from the DAO. There is also a risk in offering the tokens for sale in that we will not be aligning ourselves with builders, but more likely simple speculators

By #1002 What about infiltrators (is there anything to infiltrate?…)

COUNTERPOINTS: (Open to All Members)

By vnbpa “visas” should have a clear purpose. Is it just learning about and experiencing KONG besides full citizenship? What is there to learn/experience that people could not understand from open source research? Building? Governance? Apprenticeship? Content creation? This requires thinking about implementation in the creation phase. A “visa” should be relatively easy to obtain (within parameters) and should be convertible to CTZN. So, the parameters for obtaining a “visa” could be as simple as POH or ZK proofs + POH. Requiring people to lock stakes and do other technical (or semi-technical) things potentially excludes people who might have non-technical contributions to make. Plus, what incentive do people have to lock stakes or take financial risk if this is just learning about the ecosystem and potentially contributing? The “visa” should be convertible to CTZN and that process should be clear, simple, and decentralized. I strongly disagree with the trend towards centralizing this type of decision in bodies like an “immigration committee”. For example, the person might need a certain amount of non-fungible reputational credibility (similar to what @ramicaza mentions, or some other measure) to mint a CTZN. This would ensure that people converting to CTZN have already been active and vetted (to a degree) by their community participation. There are also already governance measures baked in to kick people out, if needed, so making the entry in should be simple and decentralized, which should in turn attract a diverse range of potential contributors.

By #0048 Are there concerns around the liquidity of $CTZN w.r.t. recruits? Is there encouragement to burn into $CITIZEN whereby they can participate in voting?

By #0056 the one suggestion that we should make posting in the "introductions" thread in a post of up to a few hundred characters mandatory for new people to join the discord. This is to enforce a human response to access our internal forums, and let us see who's joining. Not sure if the bot can be trained to enforce that but if so I think it would be a good idea to filter and introduce the influx a bit. I have no idea if that's something that would be part of this proposal, or just something on the guardians of Kong to do list.

By #0031 I believe the biggest ROI (in terms of time and $CTZN expenditure) will be supporting projects that use the chips. HaLos and by extension ERS are Kong’s USP and clearest reason as to why an individual or organization would want to invest their time. That isn’t to say that the other paths suggested e.g. " 2. For Direct Buyers and DAOs" aren’t relevant but I believe path 1. is deserves the most energy. Building utility and benefits into holders of Alpha, Titan and regular citizenship is a must. I understand this is a chicken/egg problem right now but, for any projects, individuals or initiatives that can add utility and value to citizenship above and beyond current tangible benefits should be given priority. I agree that visas, if used, should be easy to obtain and have clear, documentable paths to citizenship based on on-chain metrics. The current budget is a lot of $CTZN at a time where it has no liquid market. Can we apply the success metrics earlier in the process rather than later with a clear threshold for abort?

ADMIN: FOR TREASURY: Transactions Upon Passing:

Send 1_500 $CTZN From: Treasury Gnosis Multisig To: Senate Gnosis Multisig

Send 0.30 $ETH From: Treasury Gnosis Multisig To: Senate Gnosis Multisig