Jan 28, 2020
In this episode Felix is joined by Gavin Birch, community
analyst at Figment Networks, who has took it upon himself to
improve the decentralized governance process of the Cosmos Hub. We
start by going into Gavin’s background in the crypto space and how
he joined the Figment team before exploring Gavin’s experience
working on coordinating the upgrade to Cosmos Hub 3.
Figment recently put forth a proposal to the Cosmos community pool,
which is a source of capital that the Cosmos Hub is collecting by
taxing block rewards and transactions fees. The proposal (#23,
linked below) seeks to fund Gavin’s work to form a Governance
Working Group and to create a bunch of documentation and templates
that should help everyone to better understand the governance
process, as well as lower the barrier of entry of filing a funding
proposal to the community pool. Felix and Gavin explore the
intricacies of blockchain governance and discuss controversies and
learnings from this early experiment in decentralized funding.
Cosmos Governance Working Group Twitter and Social Links: https://twitter.com/CosmosGov
Proposal 23: https://hubble.figment.network/cosmos/chains/cosmoshub-3/governance/proposals/23
Cosmos Governance Working Group Funding Request: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSMGEoY2dfxADPfgoAsJxjjC6hwpSNx1dXAqePiCEMCbY
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