Mina Protocol’s governance vision of a future powered by participants should be both:

• Effective so that it delivers on decisions that need to be made for protocol changes and ecosystem funding.
• Aligned so that these decisions meet the wishes of the Mina community.

‘Effective’ ensures that the Mina Protocol’s governance delivers on the decisions that need to be made for protocol changes and ecosystem funding.

‘Aligned’ ensures these decisions meet the wishes of the Mina community based on common values, such as Mina’s CORE values.

To be effective and aligned, the Mina Protocol’s governance should possess the following attributes:

• Distributed. Shares, rather than concentrates, power across participants, including the power to change the rules.
• Accessible. It makes it easy and removes barriers to participation through education, accessible design, and incentives.
• Transparent. Ensures everyone knows how and why decisions are made and can evaluate outcomes against predetermined success criteria.
• Responsive. Responds in real-time to the community’s needs and to meet the needs of a changing landscape.
• Coherent. Runs many processes and decisions in parallel without making decisions that contradict.
• Stable. Over time, it learns to become more robust and resistant to corruption, exploitation, and capture by a misaligned faction.

The focus of Mina Foundation’s Protocol Governance Team is currently on:

Next Steps: 1. December 18th: MIP Community Call

Your participation is vital to ensuring that Mina protocol’s governance continues to reflect the community’s voice! | | Blogpost: Mina Ecosystem Funding - process introduction and summary of initial tests | Mina Ecosystem Funding (MEF) | 16.12: In Progress Next update: before 31.12 | The team is making the final touches to the MEF process and aims to share it later this year. | | Tokenomics Review and Recommendation | Mina Ecosystem Funding (MEF) | 10.12: In Progress Next update: before 31.01 | Work realigned with original RFP: Economics Design is now preparing an in-depth study of Mina’s current tokenomics structure. This will be followed by a comparison with other ecosystems, and a decision matrix for potential changes. | | Research Blogpost | Governance research & knowledge-sharing | 16.12: Draft published Next update: before 31.12 | Published a draft about building trust in Mina’s social layer: https://forums.minaprotocol.com/t/building-trust-in-mina-s-social-layer/6749 | | LeaderBot | Protocol Governance Toolkit (PGT) | 16.12: In Progress Next update: before 31.12 | December daily results are updated automatically and open for community feedback: https://discord.com/channels/484437221055922177/1313069616221655041

Community Leaderboard https://minafoundation.notion.site/Community-Leaderboard-Program-Guidelines-28d2d85498554c448bb3a3206eb3ca74 | | SurveyBot | Protocol Governance Toolkit (PGT) | 05.12: In Progress Next update: before 31.12 | There is one open survey:

1. Protocol Governance AMA feedback | | GovBot | Protocol Governance Toolkit (PGT) | 05.12: In Progress Next update: before 31.12 | Open source GitHub repo: https://github.com/MinaFoundation/PGT_govbot

The team is working on improvements to the platform for the next testing iterations. | | Illuminate Town Halls | Public communication | 16.12: In Progress Next update: before 31.12 | There is an async update on MinaResearch for November: https://forums.minaprotocol.com/t/illuminate-november-ecosystem-update/6743 | | Governance AMA Calls | Public communication | 16.12: Done! Next update: before 31.12 | December 11th: Monthly Governance Q&A |

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