How-To: Make your own decisions on SNS Treasury Proposals

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@lara

SNS neurons can follow themselves on the topic Transfer SNS treasury funds. This avoids unintentionally following treasury decisions via the All Topics-following. These SNS neurons can then manually vote on treasury proposals. For all remaining topics, they would still have following set as before.

This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing. Does it work for the NNS as well?

@lara

For example, if Alice follows Charlie’s neuron on the proposal topic Motion and Bob’s neuron on All Topics, then

• Scenario A. If Bob votes on topic Motion, this has no effect on Alice’s vote, because Alice is following Charlie on motion proposals.
• Scenario B. If Bob votes on any other proposal topic, a vote will automatically be cast for Alice.

The difference between Alice following Bob on All Topics and Alice individually following Bob on each of the topics is that if a new proposal topic is added to an SNS, then this would automatically be covered in the former case but not in the latter.

If you add a Scenario C then you can explicitly point out that the Followee selection for All Topics is not a backup for the Followee you select for individual topics.

Scenario C: If Charlie does not vote on topic Motion, and Alice does not vote manually on topic Motion, then Alice does not vote and does not earn voting rewards.

This might be helpful information to some people to know that they need to do their due diligence to seek neurons who are committed to voting on the individual topic they are configuring. vpgeek.app is now offering this service for the NNS and I hope they start offering this service to SNS in the future.

@lara

On the My Neuron Staking page, choose the SNS. Then, choose a neuron. Then, you can find the neuron’s ID in the top right corner. Click the copy icon next to the ID to copy your neuron ID.

You might want to change the screen capture for the first step in your instructions. The text indicates that you copy the neuron ID, which is off page in the screen capture. You can only see the neuron account in the current image in step 1 or your OP.

This seems like a good idea that hopefully the SNS team can also consider…

@skilesare

Blackholed and/or DAO Horizoned canisters should be able to hold neurons. This does not seem like a difficult feature to add given that a new proposal type mirroring named neuron could be added that stores whitelisted canisters at an address and at https://github.com/dfinity/ic/blob/e89564adda6ca8588f29780d9dfd7b8512e19f8c/rs/nns/governance/src/governance.rs#L2037 you could update to.

   if !neuron.controller.unwrap().is_self_authenticating() and !canister_whitelist.contains(neruon.controller))  {

You could even auto-add SNS-controlled canisters to the whitelist without a proposal by verifying that they were only controlled by the SNS.