Change voting platform and SNC clean-up (SNC-2020.03)

The current voting platform requires gas fees, which impacts the ability to submit ballots as well as cast votes. This negatively impacts the agility of the Swarm Network’s governance and creates severe friction which negatively impacts broad participation of its Members. We need to find ways to change that to enable larger engagement in the network.

We have been creating a new voting platform located at https://snapshot.page/#/swarm as a off-chain gas-less multi-governance client based based on https://github.com/balancer-labs/snapshot (thanks and Kudos to Balancer Labs!).This new platform will eliminate gas fees and provide an overall better voting experience.

As a result we propose to amend the SNC to (1) eliminate Default Masternode Delegation (as the new voting platform will not be able to include the Default Masternode Delegation), (2) reintroduce language on voting from SNC-2019.01 (esp. V.H), (3) differentiate a general quorum of 1% of outstanding SWM and one for amending the constitution with 10%, (4) other non-substantive, editorial revisions.

The proposed amended SNC can be reviewed here: https://docs.swarm.fund/SNC-2020.03-draft-redline.pdf

The vote on this GAB will already occur on the new voting platform at https://snapshot.page/#/swarm

No budget requested for the implementation of this GAP.

Those Swarm Network Members in favor of adopting this GAB should vote “yes” (=”adopt”). Per SNC-2019.02, if a ballot for a referendum on an amendment to the Swarm Network Constitution is approved when the votes for “adopt” outnumber the votes for “reject " at the end of the Voting Period. The Masternode Delegation applicable to this GAB will be manually taken into account by Swarm Council after vote has closed and published at https://community.swarm.fund/t/vote-to-move-to-new-voting-platform/3001

License Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.