dRep improvement and onboarding
The dRep could not be more important to Cardano given the following
(1) The participation rate of Catalyst voting is less than 20%.
(2) Statistics show that 30% of Catalyst voters randomly vote without reading the proposals.
(3) It is difficult for Catalyst users who are not necessarily skilled in technology and English to judge nearly 1,000 proposals.
(4) Potential relevance to Decentralized Consortium Funding and roadmap approval voting through 2025.
For the dRep to function better, the following four elements are necessary
(1) dReps must be diverse.
(2) There should be many dReps.
(3) High delegation participation rate.
(4) Appropriate selection of dReps for delegation.
Failure to achieve (1) and (2) is centralization, and failure to achieve (3) and (4) is Catalyst dysfunction.
Therefore, after one year, "(1) More than 200 dReps from more than 100 countries have participated. (2) Voters are voting with more than 50% and with careful consideration of their mandate." This proposal was created to create a situation where
What tools, events, support, and content would fully achieve the KPIs? Let's think about it!
Why is it important?
Without (1) diverse and many dRep participation ⇨ centralized.
Without (2) easy and proper voter delegation ⇨ dysfunctional.
How does success looks like?
After one year,
(1) 200+ deReps from 100+ countries have participated.
(2) 50%+ of the voters are voting “carefully”
Key Metrics to measure
・(Diversity of dReps) Did it lead to the onboarding of diverse dReps with different languages, national origins, occupations, genders, ages, religions, etc.?
・(Number of dReps) How many dReps were onboarded?
・(Number of delegates) How much did it contribute to increasing the number of delegates to dReps?
・(Accuracy of delegate decisions) How well did we create content and tools to make it easier to consider dReps?
Underprivileged DREPS Campaigning
Solution: To allow these Dreps to achieve saturation (1% of the total stake) we will provide a campaigning funds and office, so their voices and platforms can be heard abroad, reaching whales and main countries
Training dReps with Cardano4Climate
Solution: Cardano4Climate will become a dRep as a community and use our weekly meetings, Discord and Telegram channels, to explore how to be a good dRep through an experiential process and community decisions.
Supporting LATAM's dReps
Solution: We'll build a workspace to translate Catalyst institutional documents into Spanish and Portuguese and save them in a repository developed for this purpose and easily available to the dReps community.
Support dRep Japan and Vietnam
Solution: Create Japanese and Vietnamese versions of dRep documents, information, and announcements and share them with the community to support existing dRep and attract new dRep.
Role interaction studies in Cardano
Solution: We propose to carry out a full-fledged research work describing how the distribution of the roles of platform participants and the connections between them affect the work of funds.
References for dRep
Solution: We make a reference to help dReps who do not have much experience, knowledge and time. They can refer to make voting decisions easier and more accurate
Multilingual dRep Resources
Solution: Leverage existing Catalyst communities to create a 14 languages dRep hub with language ambassadors from Catalyst community to translate existing dRep resources and provide continuous dRep updates .
Everyone Start With More 👏
Solution: Everyone Start With More 👏 and present the proposals according to actual Popularity in Ideascale. Right now, the popularity ranking is wrong, for it ranks according to who put up a proposal first.
Eastern Hemisphere dRep TownHall
Solution: The Eastern Hemisphere Town Hall provides a safe place for the different time zones and languages of Eastern Hemisphere communities to learn, collaborate and build on Cardano.
dRep tool for non-English speakers
Solution: We propose to create a searchable tool for dRep use and save time. It contains the proposal summary’s content and review in 3 languages: English, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
DReps Open Debate
Solution: Create An Open dRep debate for the Cardano Community
DREP Marketing Blitz - Decentralize
Solution: A dRep marketing blitz is needed to promote understanding of the roles responsibilities and highlight the incentives.
dRep Interview Channel
Solution: We will create a Youtube channel to interview dReps. dReps can share what they want to bring to the community and Catalyst through dRep. The community can choose dRep to delegate their vote.
dRep Education Book Club
Solution: Let's hold regular book club meetings to read, discuss, and generally improve our awareness and knowledge of the books and articles that IOG has recommended as educational preparation for dReps.
dRep easy find potential proposals
Solution: Build a multi-criteria filter that makes it easy for dRep to find the best quality recommendation in a short amount of time
dRep Awareness Creation
Solution: Create dRep and increase awareness for delegated voting among voters in Africa as well as increasing voter participation and reward.
Documentary on Cardano's governance
Solution: Create a short documentary to explain what is the role of DREPS and more globally what are the ambitions of Cardano's governance era
💧 Democracy Means Everyone is dRep
Solution: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPSb_cDlIxN6cnnbOrJN_oxDBmxB3kENbsE__pmMAw8yJk0w/viewform
Create a dReps' Equity Resource Hub
Solution: Develop Equity Resource Hub to empower dReps & Catalyst members with knowledge on topics of bias and equity; to provide tools, activities, and resources to grow one’s awareness of cognitive fallacies.
Condense PA/VPA Into New dRep Role?
Solution: dReps can give greater transparency and community through assessments with proof of life that verify their votes.
Community Workshop&Travel to France
Solution: I propose an annual "In Real Life" Working Workshop for all Cardano members in Paris, France and neighboring regions.
My solution is to host a week long guided visit to Paris and host said Workshop.
Catalyst Streaming Guild Quick Pitch
Solution: Provide Incentives -> Stream Community Events where dReps can broadcast their voice, connecting with Catalyst Voters.
Catalyst SDK dRep support
Solution: We will update our existing Catalyst registration SDK to support dRep registration, add dRep indexing to Carp and implement dRep support inside Flint Wallet
C4S-Educating Seniors as DReps Quick Pitch
Solution: Cardano4Seniors is building a Community platform to onboard Seniors into Cardano through education & Risk Management. Social media teaching & Onboarding Seniors into the cadre of DRepps is a win/win