Seven Chain Governance and Development
Seven Chai already a significantly decentralized platform and plans are in motion to achieve full community control over it in the future. Its governance is currently split among the following actors
1) Network Validators. Seven Chain validators are entrusted with deciding whether to adopt Seven Chain improvement proposals (FIPs). Currently, every validator has one vote regardless of their share of the overall network stake but this is likely to change soon.
2) Seven Chain Foundation and the project team. Like most public blockchain projects at the initial stage of development, the development of the core network protocol and the Seven Chain treasury that mostly consists of the undistributed genesis SVC supply (see the subsection "SVC Supply and Current Distribution") are currently mostly managed by a foundation. For Seven Chain, this role is played by Gibraltar-incorporated company Seven Chain Limited.
Seven Chain Foundation employs the Seven Chain project team whose members' profiles can be found here.
The project team implements network protocol updates adopted by the validators, other protocol changes that do not require validator votes, maintains the full node software. It develops the mobile-centric infrastructure for creating and managing token communities on Seven Chain. It also works on boosting the adoption of the network through improving the Seven Chain tech stack, securing new partnerships and integrations, onboarding ecosystem projects and marketing the platform within the crypto space and beyond.
That said, since Seven Chain is a decentralized public blockchain platform, no permission of the project team is required for anyone who wishes to integrate with or develop on top of Seven Chain, including the development of the network and node software.
3) Seven Chain Assembly. See the Assembly page for more details.
1. Seven Chain Assembly
Seven Chain Assembly is a governance body formed from particularly active members of the Seven Chain community. Its formation is the first step in transitioning full governance and ownership over the Seven Chain platform to the community.
Currently, Seven Chain Assembly consists of five Seven Chain ecosystem members independent from Seven Chain Foundation who have shown consistent dedication and commitment to the project, and already have a voice within the community.
Seven Chain Assembly's current role includes the following:
taking over the control over the Seven Chain Forum community discussion platform;
implementing the Snapshot voting mechanism on Seven Chain; and
managing the Community Token Pool.
Community Token Pool
Seven Chain Assembly's budget will be initially constituted by the Community Token Pool. Each month, 200,000 SVC will be allocated to it from the Seven Chain Bootstrap Pool (discussed here).
Seven Chain Assembly will regularly distribute the Community Token Pool funds to finance grants, bounties, marketing, and other initiatives designed to serve communities building on the platform and drive innovation.
Current Assembly members
1. Rob Brown, PhD
Council Chairman
Rob is a software developer and business operations expert with over 20 years of experience. He runs Fuseprime, an independent organization that was one of the first validators on Seven Chain, and has been heavily involved in Seven Chain community management and strategic project development since 2019.
2. Luc Lammers
Council Member, Business & Marketing
Luc **** is a business development expert, SaaS leader, and startup enthusiast. He has been a committed member of the Seven Chain ecosystem since mid-2020 and brings a depth of growth-oriented experience to the team.
3. Lucas @ Seven Chain Core
Council Member, Business & Finance
Lucas is a financial expert and bank-less enthusiast with over 16 years of experience in financial management and consulting. Lucas joined the Seven Chain ecosystem in late 2020 and runs a validator. He brings an extra dimension to the development and presentation of Seven Chain in the business community.
4. Bertrand Juglas
Council Member, Technology
Bertrand brings over twenty years of open-source engineering and DevOps experience to the team, having worked extensively with Linux and other leading technologies. He was originally introduced to Seven Chain whilst working on the GoodDollar project where he remains a leading voice and prominent community member.
5. Jan Owiesniak
Council Member, Business & Technology
Jan has over 10 years of business and software development experience and currently serves as CTO and co-founder of an Augmented Reality platform designed to drive customer loyalty and boost sales. Having joined the Seven Chain ecosystem more recently in 2021, Jan has shown an enormous amount of commitment, providing support and feedback across the various different technologies that we are building.
6. Maor Stamati
Council Member
Maor is a software developer, a long-time active participant of the Seven Chain community and a co-founder of Flambu.
Seven Chain Improvement Proposals (FIPs)FIPS are Seven Chain Improvement proposals that are published on Github and extend capabilities of the network and improve it over time. Proposals can be suggested by any entity and discussed under this Github repository:
After proposing and discussing every proposal, the proposal that will be implemented are voted on by the validators before upgrading the network.
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