Council members hold no additional governance rights than other Delegates. Applying as a delegate here is the best way for community members to contribute to governance as of now.
From my understanding the Builder’s Council 6-month charter is meant to:
Grant voting power to a distributed set of StarkNet application developers to ensure their input is considered in network upgrades
Discover a relationship between a Voting Council and the DAO
We’ve had consideration about how the Builder’s Council will look like after this charter: potentially some forced cycling of members through ranked voting, potentially dissolving the council entirely if the delegate role fills our needs. These 6-months are meant to be a pilot for us to test this interaction to best understand how we can open up participation and expand responsibilities.
As for the selection process- there may have been just as many people debating who should be on the builder’s council as there are people on the builders council. If you check out this list, it’s pretty considerate of many different actors in StarkNet. Not perfect, but approaching representative. I think @s0lness is confident in the group.
Just as the builders council, we expect the role of delegates to evolve as well. One note is that more voting power will be available for delegation as more of the Foundation’s token allocation is distributed. There will be a calculated introduction of tooling following major decentralization events to ensure Delegate’s are able to receive significant voting power based on their good faith contributions to StarkNet governance.
It is safe to delegate. The StarkNet Token contract implements standard delegate and delegateBySig functions from the Compound delegation module. These functions are standard and do not transfer tokens, they only delegate the voting power.
it is totally true, if you want someone represents your interests you are able to delegate him/her your tokens. If you trust the delegated person, you can do it without any doubt
I dont get how to participate in governance
It is neede to hold The StarkNet token, but it is not distributed yet, so as i understand, token distribution will be firstly and after that we can participate in governance module
As explained in the Medium post, only the Foundation itself is able to propose topics for now. These topics, during the First Phase of Governance will only be about protocol upgrades.
Should the community decide not to go forward with a protocol upgrade, it will not be implemented on StarkNet Mainnet.
Delegates, token holders and members of the Builder’s Council can participate in governance at the moment. When the StarkNet network decentralizes its consensus the StarkNet token will flow and anyone will be able to get tokens and vote.
Hello sir.
Your reply here says Starknet token is locked for a year, so it is safe to say that the token and announcement for full decentralization will be 4th Qtr of 2023?
Decentralization as in “when will anyone be able to participate in consensus and block-building” is still being worked on, recommend reading this: Starknet Decentralization Day Summary
i opened delegate.starknet.io and saw some amount number of delegate (near 9k). But only a little amount of delegate have have token STARK and only they have voted on Snapshot. You have a strategy for decentralization and governance DAO, but it is not being implemented. It is big issue for Starknet, its development and all community
