‘Spread Your Votes’ campaign by ICON in Numbers
Project category: Education
Project duration: 3 months
Project description
ICON network is currently suffering from a highly skewed vote distribution where votes are concentrated on the top P-Reps. More than 25% of the total votes are allocated in top 3 P-Reps, and more than 50% in top 10 P-Reps. We have also noticed that new voters tend to vote for top P-Reps in our analyses. In fact, the highest number of first-time voters have been observed in ICON Foundation each week since October 2019.
There are several reasons for such voting behaviours – voter apathy and vote stagnation being the main drivers. These issues have been very difficult to tackle, but we have been working to promote vote spreading, which would also help other problems associated with voting behaviours.
ICON in Numbers is a joint project between P-Reps Transcranial Solutions and Espanicon. The goal of the weekly report is to analyse different aspects of data, including voting behaviour so that we could track the changes over time and inform ICONists and P-Reps to improve the governance in the ICON ecosystem.
We have been tracking the number of P-Reps that ICONists were voting for since our report on the voter behaviour, and this was implemented in the weekly ICON in Numbers article since July, 2020. We have also shown an indicator for the highest number of P-Reps voted each week after the implementation of the upgrade on ICON network which allowed for voting of more than 10 P-Reps. We kept track of the data and helped increase awareness by sharing the data each week via social media platforms.
We started a ‘Spread Your Votes’ campaign where we encourage ICONists to spread their votes. We are giving ICONists the incentives to vote for more P-Reps so that the votes are not too concentrated on the top P-Reps. We have seen a gradual increase in the number of wallets and votes in the ‘11+ P-Reps’ voted category.
We are hoping to continue rewarding active voters that are participating in vote spreading and continue with the work in producing ICON in Numbers. We believe that a grant will provide support for the ‘Spread Your Votes’ campaign with additional incentives for the ICONists.
Project milestones
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Four (4) ICON in Numbers report per month in two languages (English & Spanish)
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One (1) summary report per month in English (Trend Analysis)
Funding amount requested
$4,000 for 3 months & 1M delegations (500K each for the team)
· Promotion / reward: $3,000
· Code implementation and maintenance: $1,000
Reward outline:
Allocate $1,000 per month ($250 x 4 weeks)
- One (1) grand prize winner each week: $100 (raffle winner as original campaign)
- Remaining $150 to be divided into brackets for 11+ P-Reps voted
- For example (current vote spreading brackets available),
- 3 winners ($10) each in bracket (11 - 19)
- 3 winners ($10) each in bracket (20 - 29)
- 3 winners ($10) each in bracket (30 - 39)
- 3 winners ($10) each in bracket (40 - 49)
- 3 winners ($10) each in bracket (100)
- If not enough participant in each bracket, then the leftover slot will be rolled over to the previous bracket (e.g. 2 winners in 40-49, 4 winners in 30-39)
- For example (current vote spreading brackets available),
Only the grand prize winner will be picked via https://wheelofnames.com/ as before. Other winners will also be announced, but randomly selected by programming (python) and codes will be available on GitHub.
Eventually, we want it to be self-sustainable, and use the proportion of our delegation rewards to be used as the reward for ICONists in the future.
Official team name
Transcranial Solutions / Espanicon
Contact information
Email: transcranial.solutions@gmail.com / fidellira.6@gmail.com
Telegram: @tonoplast / @Espanicon_Prep
Twitter: @transcranialsol / @espanicon
Public address
hx2f3fb9a9ff98df2145936d2bfcaa3837a289496b (Transcranial Solutions)
- Main grant + delegation
hx9fa9d224306b0722099d30471b3c2306421aead7 (Espanicon)
- Delegation