I’m really happy to see that WaterNeuron will enter the second phase (Papaya Era) as originally planned. This is great news for decentralization for WaterNeuron and the NNS. This shows amazing leadership by the WaterNeuron team.
Since this is a new decentralization sale, I want to offer some options to the WTN community on known neurons that you can follow. Below are neuron IDs and configuration details for all known public neurons in the WTN SNS along with their descriptions as posted on their website or in the announcement in the WaterNeuron community on OpenChat. If there is anyone else that wants to make themselves known as a credible and dedicated Followee option for the WTN SNS, then please let me know and I will add you to the list. You are also welcome to post your information in the same thread linked above on OpenChat.
CodeGov WTN neuron
CodeGov WTN Neuron ID: 203312480b4aeef877f393f376533f4fdcaa477412ca1ae83abd8e897c0e726f
Based on the configuration described below, the CodeGov WTN neuron votes on all WTN proposals. The CodeGov WTN neuron Followees are intentionally and actively managed on every proposal topic in order to ensure the CodeGov WTN neuron casts educated votes on every proposal submitted to the WTN SNS. Our goal is to advance decentralization of the WaterNeuron SNS by providing a valid and credible choice as a Followee option. CodeGov reserves the right to change Followee selections on any proposal topic at any time according to what we believe is the best configuration of our neuron.
Topics:
Topic 1: Motion
Topic 2: Manage nervous system parameters
Topic 9: Transfer SNS Treasury Funds (this is considered a critical proposal topic)
Topic 11: Deregister dapp canisters (this is considered a critical proposal topic)
Topic 12: Mint SNS tokens (this is considered a critical proposal topic)
Followees:
Cyberowl (@cyberowl)
CodeGov team member for IC-OS Version Election and Protocol Canister Management proposals
Cris (MntYetti) (@Cris.MntYetti)
CodeGov team member for Marketing
Bjoern Tackmann (@bjoern)
DFINITY Foundation Head of Research
Cryptonomicon (Jack Johnson) (@Cryptonomicon)
WaterNeuron community member (Jack Johnson)
Andrew Csepreghy (@chepreghy)
DFINITY Foundation Product Manager
EPIC_ICP (@EpicICP)
WaterNeuron community member
David Fisher (@dfisher)
Node Provider, Synapse Followee, Managing Partner with 9 Yards Capital
Saratoshi (Sormarler) (@Sormarler)
Saratoshi is a long-time ICP community member and investor with a deep interest in ICP and its ecosystem governance. He actively participates in community discussions and proposals, contributing to the decentralized development of the Internet Computer.
Wenzel Bartlett ( wpb )
CodeGov founder, Synapse voting member
The folks above are committed to always voting on some of the most important proposal topics for the WaterNeuron community to have an independent voice. Hence, the CodeGov WTN neuron is an available choice for anyone in the WaterNeuron DAO who wants to make sure that voting power in the SNS is as decentralized as possible. We don’t claim to be the only choice, nor do we want to be the only choice, but we are reliable and we are committed to advancing decentralization within the WaterNeuron SNS. These Followees are unpaid, yet are committed to performing due diligence when casting their votes on these topics. They are all asked to vote on each proposal with their own convictions.
Topic 0: All non-critical topics
Followees:
WTN Team - Leo, Enzo, Ulysse Kaz
The CodeGov WTN neuron follows the WTN team neuron at this time because there is no funding available to hire our own reviewers who can perform technical reviews of WTN proposals. However, in the event that funding does become available some day, then CodeGov will hire reviewers to perform this work and the CodeGov WTN neuron will be configured to follow them. Hence, if you follow the CodeGov WTN neuron on this topic then you will automatically follow the dedicated reviewers that we hire to provide technical verification of proposals and an independent vote in the future.
Topic 1000: Vote for NNS Proposals
CodeGov NNS neuron (vote relay canister)
WaterNeuron generates attractive returns for staking nICP because of the large 8 year and 6 month neurons that it owns and controls. It participates in NNS governance by voting with the WaterNeuron NNS known neuron. A canister is used to cast votes for these neurons based on the results of the Vote for NNS Proposals topic. This topic is a WTN replicate of each NNS proposal and is voted by the entire WTN SNS. The CodeGov team developed a canister that can relay votes between NNS neurons and WTN neurons. Anyone can use this canister to set up their own vote relay (instructions provided on our codegov-wtn-vote-relay repository on GitHub), but it is also set up between the CodeGov NNS known neuron and the CodeGov WTN neuron since we already vote on all NNS proposal topics including all technical topics.
NOTE: The configuration of the neuron can be verified using the get_neuron query available on the dashboard. Follow the link, check the neuron ID box, enter the neuron ID, and click Call. The Candid result displays all neuron configuration properties including permission types for each principal and all Followees for each proposal topic.
Quint WTN neuron
Quint WTN Neuron ID: 6495d26172c697cbfaf1398a4a2d821d09e453a396220f6ea1a74decdeaf1b6f
I am active member of the WaterNeuron community, a moderator in the Telegram group, and involved in reviewing WaterNeuron proposals. My work includes verifying hashes, checking code, and assessing technical aspects of upgrades to SNS-controlled canisters.
I’ve developed a Golang agent for interacting with the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) and have experience with Rust and Motoko. Additionally, with Aviate Labs we review proposals related to NNS Node Admin and Participant Management.
My goal is to support the community by ensuring technical accuracy and contributing to effective governance. @quint
D-QUORUM WTN neuron
D-QUORUM WTN Neuron ID: c0b121b52cca921791b87350244029a9d128883e22576b528f2214489a1d3384
The members of D-QUORUM are appointable exclusively by WTN proposal, providing followers a verifiably decentralized voting quorum.
Exclusive control can be verified via the WTN Governance Canister, revealing that D-QUORUM is controlled directly by the WTN Governance Canister (and this principal only). It is impossible to add or remove principals or permissions, making the neuron resilient to governance attacks, yet flexible (allowing for council members to be added/removed as followees over time via proposal). DAO proposals are the only possible way of configuring D-QUORUM followees (which then represent elected council members for each topic).
The initial followee configuration is the WTN Team for every topic. This can be updated if/when the WTN DAO decide to reconfigure D-QUORUM followees, and if/when the manage_SNS_controlled_neuron proposal type has been implemented by DFINITY.
LORIMER WTN neuron
LORIMER WTN Neuron ID: ffd85295e02216d317ea49d3b2578f4e0e0adc44ecf7d920a06cae788ca43d97
Known neuron LORIMER, full-stack Software Developer, and diligent voter. I’m a member of CodeGov and Synapse. As such, I’m committed to voting on IC OS Version Election proposals, as well as Governance and SNS & Neurons’ Fund proposals. Subnet Management is another topic that I review, in addition to actively building tools and processes to facilitate more effective governance.
I provide evidence of my due diligence on the DFINITY forum for proposals that I have reviewed. In all other cases, I wait for the outcome of each proposal to be decided before following the prevailing vote (to avoid influencing the outcome when I haven’t personally had a chance to perform sufficient due diligence). I reject proposals that I consider to be inaccurate, misleading, and/or not in the best interests of the Internet Computer and the community that it serves.
Krzysztof Zelazko WTN neuron
Krzysztof Zelazko WTN Neuron ID: 8dbd5235a0f39c0aefbe9bf365e6406ba85250eff5127258a665af88e3b0c694
Hello WaterNeuron community!
My WTN neuron automatically follows my votes in NNS, and in all topics follows the WTN Team neuron. In critical topics I vote 100% manually. More information about me and how I vote can be found here. @krzysztofzelazko
Dev Team WTN Neuron
Dev Team WTN neuron ID: 5131d35fb19a10cfba23f3162f48f059b95c2ad60cbe39a2017f88f51537bbb3
The WTN Team includes Enzo, Leo, and Ulysses. They are the lead developers and founders of the WaterNeuron project.
ICPfinder WTN neuron
ICPfinder WTN neuron ID: f141c18a70fcbe16dc8d84ed2ac733f029866b7d0c1a08fdab244d21632cd71b
DFINITY WTN neuron
DFINITY WTN neuron ID: 0c9288198b6dc21da28113a842f1c6cb4248eb54273f1b2702c12afbeb5b416f
DFINITY has created a WTN neuron that copies the votes of the DFINITY beacon neuron on the NNS for all related proposals in the WTN SNS. The neuron does not vote on any other proposals.
The neuron id is: 0c9288198b6dc21da28113a842f1c6cb4248eb54273f1b2702c12afbeb5b416f
Thanks to CodeGov and Hamish for creating the technical foundations we’re building on for this neuron.