Gevik🇳🇱🇦🇲

Governance is not law, it’s a democratic means to have discussion, offer grants, and alter layer-1 core protocol code. It allows individuals from the community to present their ideas and have other individuals from that same community respond back in the form of a vote that aligns with them as an individual and their opinion on the idea, which helps poll the consensus of the community on that idea. If that proposal passes, then its up to an individual or team to then present a spend proposal if needed, outlining in detail what is required and what it will cost to complete the work, then put it up for vote and proceed from there. Lets take prop #11645 for example, it was a text proposal presented to the community by a community member requesting the layer-1 team to create an independent wallet and related-apps (layer-2 work), the proposal passed unanimously, now here is where the misconception comes in, many believe that because it passed that now layer-1 team must obey governance and complete the work, however, this is not how governance actually works, proposal #11645 was nothing more then a discussion surrounding an idea that the community all agreed on, at which point the layer-1 team could decide if they wanted to take on the work and put up a spend proposal outlining costs and requirements if needed. The layer-1 team made the choice to find a solution that did not cost the community further expense by collaborating with Hexxagon to use their already built and working Terra Classic Station + infrastructure, by doing this it allowed layer-1 team to still focus on layer-1 work, well offloading the layer-2 work required to create a wallet onto Hexxagon, layer-1 teams role in this would be to hold custody of the GitHub repos and review all code changes to them from Hexxagon. So, did the layer-1 team not obey governance? Its of my opinion there was no governance to obey, proposal #11645 was merely a request / discussion from the community to layer-1, but it was not law, nor was it enforceable, the only point in time it would have been enforceable is the minute layer-1 team put in a spend proposal in relation to the request and that spend proposal passed, then the layer-1 team would have to deliver what was outlined in that spend proposal, but that simply is not the case here, there was no spend proposal to enforce. Now let’s look at proposal #11685, this is another discussion text proposal, where the individual community member is expressing his views and vision surrounding the layer-1 team and Hexxagon team, such things proposed in that proposal are defunding of either team and preventing either team from collaborating with each other or other teams. Now if that proposal passed, is it law? In my opinion no, it’s a discussion of opinions that are not enforceable until they are added into the next spend proposals presented by either team next quarter, and that’s if those teams decide to add those points of interest in at all, nothing says they have to, maybe those teams come up with their own solutions that they wish to put into their spend proposals. So, its of my opinion that we need to stop using governance as a weapon and start treating it as it was intended to be, a discussion phase to gauge community consensus, maybe try and have longer discussions on topics outside of governance before throwing up a proposal that may not cover everything properly. And remember, the only requirement for someone putting up a spend prop is to outline what will be delivered and the cost, it’s the requirement of the community to read that spend proposal and decide if it meets their standards to pass, and vote it down if it does not, but whatever the outcome is, respect it. If something isn’t delivered by a team or individual, then open a discussion and ask why without insulting them, maybe there is a good reason, ultimately you the community hold the power to simply not vote them in next time their spend proposal comes up if you feel you could not resolve the issue through discussion, or you can simply request amendments to their new spend proposal coming up. At the end of the day, read what you are voting on completely, ask lots of questions, and vote appropriately to what feels right for you, but whatever the outcome, respect it and the discussions / people around it. Lets work together to build a brighter future for LUNC and its community! ** Everything stated above is of my own personal opinions and views **