EOS Alliance Launches with the Mandate to “Empower EOS For All”
August 17 2018 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Initial Board Members Include Prominent EOS
Influencers Brock Pierce, Bancor and LiquidEOS Co-Founder Galia
Benartzi, and Multi-Platinum Music Artist AKON
A global group of EOS blockchain community members and Block
Producers today unveiled EOS Alliance. This new coordinating group
will further unlock the full potential of EOS, the world’s fastest
governed blockchain, by providing a platform for collaborative,
transparent decision-making and information-sharing within the EOS
community.
EOS Alliance, established as a nonprofit entity, will serve the
EOS community by streamlining and facilitating communication and
education that affects EOS token holders, Block Producers,
application creators and other stakeholders.
The move was endorsed by dozens of influential stakeholders in
the distributed EOS community, including over three dozen EOS Block
Producers.
EOS Alliance Mandate
The EOS Alliance will serve under its guiding vision of
Empowering EOS For All to curate and coordinate various existing
efforts within the EOS community. The Alliance will:
- Facilitate multi-language conversations
(initially in English, Korean and Chinese) and education around key
ecosystem issues, debates and developments.
- Refrain, in accordance with its bylaws
(now being drafted), from gaining any executive power within EOS
governance structures.
- Facilitate discussion and help
workgroups make clear recommendations.
As its first act, the EOS Alliance has already begun forming a
series of working groups with diverse community participation to
inform and advise on the ecosystem’s most challenging topics.
EOS Alliance Leadership
The EOS Alliance will launch initially with a seven (7) member
Board, expanding as needed in a process currently under draft.
Within 12 months, the EOS Alliance intends to have a fully
elected board, to include members of diverse backgrounds and
geographic regions, representing a variety of EOS community
stakeholders and perspectives.
The initial board members are expected to be:
- A seat reserved for special
appointment, held in the interim by Lightning Clearwater III, also
serving as the Alliance’s General Counsel
- Brock Pierce, Chairman of the Bitcoin
Foundation and former partner at Block.one
- Galia Benartzi, Co-founder of Bancor
and LiquidEOS
- Peter Li, founder of EOS Gravity, a
community leader and Block Producer
- Hai Feng, of EOS Store, an EOS Block
Producer
- Nix Nolledo, Philippine billionaire,
founder of blockchain startup ODX
- AKON, multi-platinum music artist and
blockchain enthusiast
In addition, two observer seats have been established for
representatives to be selected by the paid Block Producers via a
mechanism to be decided by them.
Staff initially will include interim Executive Director Thomas
Cox, former Block.one VP of Product (where he led the work on EOS’s
governance mechanisms), Deputy Executive Director Myra Wang (Dan
Wang), formerly of the influential Chinese community EOS Gravity,
and Communications Director Kevin Wilcox, co-founder of EOS Go.
The board and staff are in the advanced stages of forming a
legal foundation as a nonprofit public benefit entity in an
advanced jurisdiction.
EOS Alliance Support and Sustainability
Pledges of funding have been secured for the first 90 days of
operation, and board members are tasked with fundraising for the
Alliance. Additionally, the Alliance will be funded by private
donations, to be made in EOS tokens so all transactions will be
public and transparent on the EOS blockchain. In its first six
months, the Alliance will create a sustainability plan beginning
with donations, events, memberships, content, trainings and more.
The EOS Alliance is initially capping its budget at US $1 million
per year. All EOS Alliance financial information will be publicly
available.
EOS Alliance Working Groups
Initially, working groups will be formed to outline and
facilitate conversations on the following topics:
- Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
- Communications
- Code Management (GitHub)
- Exchanges
- Constitution Drafting & Adoption
- Mission: to curate an open process
ensuring broad community participation in drafting, discussing,
revising, and publishing at least two Constitution drafts for
consideration by referendum.
- This group intends to hold weekly video
work sessions in English, Mandarin and Korean (initially) to garner
input.
All EOS Alliance working groups will be required by their
charters to operate inclusively and transparently.
The EOS Alliance formation is launching with support from over
four dozen Block Producers and other entities, including:
AcroEOS EOS Vietnam EOS Authority EOS
Village Blockmatrix EOS42 BlockSmith eosAfrica EOS Canada EOSCafe
CryptoLions EOSDAC EOS Add EOSeco EOS Arabia EOSeoul EOS Asia
EOSfishRocks EOS Beijing EOShenzhen EOS Bixin EOSKH EOS Cannon
EOSPH EOS Costa Rica EOSphere EOS Dublin EOSRIO EOS Germany EOSYS
EOS Gravity GenerEOS EOS Meso HelloEOS EOS Nairobi HKEOS EOS Nation
LibertyBlock EOS New York LiquidEOS EOS Ono Meet.One EOS Pacific
Node one EOS Pay OracleChain EOS Silicon Valley Saltblock EOS Store
shEOS EOS Sw/eden StartEOS EOS Tribe Worbli EOSunion
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