Decentralization of power, the arrival of decentralized governance

Qitmeer Network
4 min readMay 26, 2023

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Qitmeer Network has always attached great importance to the community since the beginning of its birth. The scale of our community is far larger than that of other public chains of the same type. The larger the community, the more scattered the internal interest groups will be, and the different voices will become more chaotic. As a result, users who are concerned about the development of the project cannot convey effective voices to the team and are gradually marginalized, which is why Qitmeer Network has always attached great importance to community governance.

We believe that the governance of the public chain is essential to reconcile different interest groups in the ecology to reduce internal friction. This internal friction, sometimes a difference in the development direction of the public chain, needs to be eliminated through revolutionary iterations of the code. And sometimes it is a difference within the community, which requires continuous optimization of the community governance model and consensus through communication.

In the governance section of our official website, there have been many users who have put forward their own suggestions, but in the process of implementation, we found that the current governance link is still slightly cumbersome and not comprehensive enough, and many precious community opinions can be discovered. Governance community members also lack a smooth channel to submit their suggestions, which has caused our reflection.

Therefore, we propose a new governance model.

Accelerating globalization

From a global perspective, Qitmeer Network also needs more blockchain developers and community gathering places, and the development of overseas communities can allow people in more countries to contact Web 3.0. At present, Qitmeer Network communities have been established in France, Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Turkey, Arabic, and other countries/language regions. For the advancement of globalization, our global ambassadors will continue to promote the existing achievements. The governance of Qitmeer Network will not only be in the field that they are familiar with, and the opinions of the global community will also become an important part of our on-chain and off-chain governance. So this year, we will continue to accelerate the advancement of globalization.

At the same time, the Qitmeer Team hereby invites more global ambassadors to join the Qitmeer Network. Please click the link below to sign up and join us in promoting the globalization of the Qitmeer Network — https://www.qitmeer.io/#/ambassador

Loyal Investor Community - “Meer Club”

Some time ago, we established a community dedicated to loyal investors - “MeerClub”. We believe that the needs and suggestions of small partners who hold $Meer represent the general public and are closer to actual development. Therefore, we choose to establish a more unified and direct voice channel for these loyal users.

The “MeerClub” in the later stage will bring together loyal community investors, who will receive exclusive benefits such as greater governance and faster service. To allow loyal users to keep abreast of the latest progress of Qitmeer Network and put forward their own valuable suggestions, the group will also periodically release development progress information and activities.

More detailed information about “MeerClub” has been released. Interested friends can click the link below to view —

https://qitmeer.io/#/home/announcement/41

Community committee governance mechanisms

If “MeerClub” is an exclusive privilege for loyal users, then “Community Committee” is the full decentralization of governance authority of Qitmeer Network, achieving true on-chain decentralization.

The “Community Committee” is an off-chain governance organization initiated by the core operation team of Qitmeer Network and established based on community members. The organization is completely neutral, and any Qitmeer Network member can use direct or indirect means to put forward their own constructive opinions. All opinions will be respected, whether passed or not, so that every participant can pass it, convert their views into standard executable motions, and make the entire chain healthier.

This governance method is also different from the previous one. The new governance function will become a “direct democracy” model in which every participant can vote. Changes on the Qitmeer Network chain or community suggestions can be publicized in the community through the standard proposal process, and users can vote with Meer Coin to achieve the purpose of “everyone can govern” while increasing the governance value of MEER, which is also the functional basis of “community co-governance” in a deeper sense.

The detailed construction rules and specific implementation plan have been initially drafted by the team. It is expected that the formal plan content will be communicated to everyone soon. At present, what can be revealed is that the members of the “Community Committee” will be recruited and selected fairly and openly from the community. They will represent the general public of the community, will have greater authority, and will also have some special benefits, so stay tuned.

Move closer to being more decentralized

We believe that in addition to the suggestions of more core users, the regular process and governance itself are equally important. The establishment of the Qitmeer Network Community Committee aims to establish a set of complete and regular Qitmeer Network discussion paradigms, which can help the committee propose and table more efficiently. Resolutions. At the same time, it can iterate itself and achieve a considerable degree of decentralization.

In this way, the future development process of Qitmeer Network will also become more decentralized, community-driven, and transparent, because we always believe that projects with strong community power will have more vigorous power. Looking back on the release of Qitmeer Network to the present, there are many memorable moments, and I believe this moment will be one of them.

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Qitmeer Network

Qitmeer Network is the next generation payment network infrastructure based on BlockDAG technology.