HIP: 54
title: Airdrop to Democratic Heroes
authors: Spoon
status: Phase 2
created: 2022-08-10
conflicts with: None
languages: EN

Simple Summary

Use the WETH funds currently owned by the DAO to airdrop humans who have actively participated in POH. This is the most democratic way of allocating the funds, because even minorities will have a voice on how to use the DAO’s assets and we will avoid any fund allocation drama. Each politically active human supporting this HIP will receive around 0.04648-0.090 ETH (~82-165 USD at the time of writing).

The airdrop will happen on the Gnosis Chain in order to bootstrap the POH/UBI Gnosis ecosystem.

Abstract

As most people reading this may know, active humans have contributed greatly to the adoption and improvement of Proof of Humanity over the past year and a half. The following is a non exhaustive list of contributions:

• Organizing vouching groups and participating in them. Not only free vouching for people who don’t know anyone inside POH is provided, but also has the humanitarian function of checking the profiles to prevent honest mistakes in submissions.
• Crowdfunding submissions. Several people have organized groups that help poor people register POH and provided funds + gas fees necessary to do so.
• Volunteer developers have contributed to the project from different angles. Just to name a few examples (but there are so many more!): Ruben’s UBI Burner, Emiliano’s Vaults, JuanuMusic’s Posta and UBI v2, Billinkis’ contributions to the UI.
• Several people have spent countless hours trying to improve the registration policies as can be seen in several HIPs and forums.
• Social media volunteers, such as telegram and discord admins, people who help others during onboarding and creators of tutorials and documentation.
• Some others, like the Proof of Integrity folks, go an extra mile to educate people in need about financial freedom, UBI and POH.
• Democratic participation itself is an honorable task.
• Of course all the work by the Kleros team.

Most of the politically active humans have already dedicated their time and money to improve POH and make it grow. Something fascinating is that this energy, far from dwindling, is increasing.

Listening to every single voice

I’ve seen too many different views about how to spend or not spend the DAO’s assets. To be honest, most of them seem like a good idea. The problem is that it is hard to reach a consensus and, if we do, the majority would be imposing their ideas over the minorities.

If we agree on an airdrop to the people who actively participate in POH, then each individual will use the airdrop as they best see fit. Some may organize themselves to fund the research of alternative arbitrators or of Proof of Humanity iterations (v2, v3, etc.). Some others may use the airdrop to keep building. Others may use it to help and educate new users, advertise the project and increase adoption. Some others may use it for themselves (and that is ok too! They’ve earned it, so we could see that as retroactive funding). The airdrop will also help the adoption of POH/UBI related dapps being developed on the Gnosis Chain.

As an example: HIP-49 got 247 supporters but that wasn’t enough to pass the proposal. If these 247 humans are really interested in alternative arbitrators, they can campaign to use the ETH from this airdrop to research and develop it.

I’ll argue with anyone that an airdrop like this is the most democratic way of allocating the DAO’s funds.

Motivation

Let the politically active humans decide the allocation of resources democratically and without imposing ideas over minorities. Boost the POH/UBI ecosystem.

Specification

Distribute all the WETH (~46.48) among humans that {1} are registered in POH, {2} vote in favor of this HIP (phase 2 & 3) and {3} have voted in at least one HIP in Snapshot before the date this post (not the Phase-1 post) was published. Humans who voted through delegation are eligible. HIPs that are currently being voted do not count.

If my calculations are right, there are around ~1000 eligible humans, which means that at least each one of them will be entitled to ~0.04648 WETH (85 USD at the time of writing). If Snapshot participation is low, the airdrop will be bigger.

Implementation

To make the airdrop more efficient and support the human ecosystem being built (POHv2, UBIv2, Yubiai, Social Media, TalentLayer, the prediction markets project, draw attention from Circle UBI supporters, etc.), the WETH will be bridged to Gnosis Chain to an airdrop contract. Airdrop smart contracts already exist, which means that we won’t need to implement one. Once this HIP gets approved, we will need to prepare the merkle proofs for said contract.