NIP-2_NULS Community Constitution

Governance NULS-NIPs
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  NIP: 2
  Title: NULS Community Constitution
  Author: Reaper Ran <reaper@nuls.io>
  Discussions-To: https://forum.nuls.io/t/nip-2-nuls-community-constitution/59
  Status: Last call
  Type: Process
  Created: 2018-12-28

Preamble

Due to the development requirement of NULS and to better facilitate the favorable operation of the NULS community and to make blockchain technology easier with NULS, the NULS community will constantly seek and implement NULS community autonomy for the realization of self-governance and self-evolution. This Constitution is hereby formulated based on the NULS community culture and philosophy.

NULS community culture: openness, freedom, autonomy, evolution

NULS community philosophy: share, inherit, grow, innovate

The following rules will be based on the NULS development consensus governance module. The Councilors and Ambassadors will be appointed by a vote within the NULS core team before consensus governance module is set in motion.

NULS Foundation

December 2018

Abstract

NULS community is an organization of a group of people who highly assent to NULS community culture and philosophy and have the same purpose and vision to work for the development of NULS community ecology. NULS community members include the NULS Foundation, Councilors, contributors, the open-source technology community - NULS technology community (NTC) and other all NULS Holders.

Motivation

In order to build a good community operation mechanism, promote community autonomy, and promote the NULS project to enable the community to evolve and drive independently.

Specification

The following is a specification of the NULS Community Constitution.

NULS Community Constitution

I. NULS Community Profile

NULS is a blockchain infrastructure that provides customizable services and is also a global open-source community blockchain project. NULS adopts micro-services to achieve a highly modular underlying architecture, using smart contracts and cross-chain technologies, combined with the ability of ChainBox to quickly build chains, reduce development costs, and accelerate blockchain business application landing.

NULS community is an organization of a group of people who highly assent to NULS community culture and philosophy and have the same purpose and vision to work for the development of NULS community ecology. NULS community members include the NULS Foundation, Councilors, contributors, the NULS technology community [NTC] and other all NULS Holders.

II. NULS Foundation

NULS Foundation, short for the NULS FOUNDATION PTE. LTD. (201729333G), is a limited liability company incorporated in Singapore. It focuses on supporting the construction of NULS community ecology and technical research and development to promote the security, harmony and development of NULS community ecology, with the primary target of ensuring sustainable development of NULS Community ecology.

(I) Objectives of NULS Foundation

Give rewards to contributors, NTC members and members of other communities according to their contributions with the aim to promote development of community ecology and support the NULS community development, including but not limited to:

  1. Code writing
  2. Applications development
  3. Operation and promotion
  4. Other actions in favor of NULS community ecology development

(II) Source of NULS Foundation

20,000,000 NULS from the NULS and entrusted revenues from the contributors.

(III) Management of NULS Foundation

The NULS Foundation shall be managed and utilized based on the principles of fairness, justice and openness with respect to the development needs of the NULS Community ecology. NULS’ fund account is open to the community and subject to supervision of all community members. All proposals of incentives shall be managed under this Constitution and incentives may be given at the back end. The funds in the account are managed by the NULS governance platform and the multi-signatures of NULS Councilors.

III. NULS Councilors

(I) Introduction to Councilors

As a member organization established under the NULS Community Constitution, NULS Councilors shall be responsible for NULS Foundation’s objectives as well as the whole community and will add the roles into NULS governance model.

(II) Appointment of Councilors

The NULS Councilors, consisting of 11 members, is formed based on a popular vote within the community. The 11 Councilors, which may be changed by proposal, shall be composed of 4 NTC developers (developer councilors) elected based on a ballot participated by all developers; and 7 members elected by ballot within the community (standing Councilor). The top 4 in ballot within the developer community shall be elected and the remaining members shall be the first 7 in dynamic poll. Equivalently, there will be at least 4 developers in the Councilors.

  1. Application. All community members are allowed to run for a position in NULS community’s Councilors. The participants only need to meet the following conditions: have at least 50,000 NULS in the application address and accept real-time supervision by the system; provide personal information, as detailed as possible and reserve at least 50,000 NULS in the application address; participants applying for developer Councilor shall retain at least 20,000 NULS in the application address.
  2. Voting. If the application is approved, all applicants will be ranked by votes from high to low and all NULS Holders can cast a vote. The voting right shall be assigned according to the token ownership accurate to the fourth decimal place. Token and voting right shall be inseparable. Each vote is allowed to select at least 4 developers and 7 Councilors.
  3. Appointment. According to votes, the first 7 in the candidate list of Councilors and the top 4 in the developers list shall be appointed as the Councilors and the addresses of these Councilors will be given the permission to put forward a proposal with respect to the system.
  4. Dropping out. If the NULS holdings in candidate’s address are less than 50,000 NULS, the candidate is deemed to drop out of the campaign and all the votes will be cleared without his / her presence on the candidate list. If the candidate exits the race of his / her own accord, all his / her votes will be also cleared without his / her presence on the candidate list. After dropping out, a new application shall be made if the application address wants to run for Councilors again.

(III) Rights and responsibilities of Councilor

  1. Proposal. Councilor will be given the permission to put forward a proposal and the proposal will be charged 0.1 NULS. In addition, the proposal may be modified later. Proposal includes the following types:

    (1) Put forward a proposal to create the role of contributor and delete the role of contributor. The voting period will last 15 days and if the approval rating reaches 70%, the proposal will be executed; otherwise it will be invalid.

  • Role for campaign. The Councilor shall put forward a proposal to create a role for campaign and provide fixed incentives or delegation. This role works in a similar way with the Councilorship. One or more persons may be elected by ballot within the community to take on the role.

  • Permanent role. Put forward a proposal to create a role to give incentives or delegate. The community may vote for or against the assumption of the role.

    (2) Put forward a proposal to modify system parameters. The voting period will last 15 days and if the approval rating reaches 80%, the proposal will be executed; otherwise it will be invalid.

  • Adjustment of lower node agency commission.

  • Adjustment of transfer commission.

  • Adjustment of contract call commission.

  • Adjustment of Councilor proposal commission.

  • Adjustment of adjustable system parameter in other systems.

    (3) Put forward a proposal to perform Foundation account operations. The voting period will last 15 days and that of the contributor role proposal will last 5 days; if the approval rating reaches 70%, the proposal will be executed; otherwise it will be invalid.

  • Delegation. For example, a Councilor puts forward a proposal to delegate the node of an important role, the node rewards will be used to support the work to be performed by the role.

  • Fund transfer. For example, a Councilor puts forward a proposal to transfer funds to financially support a community activity. The initial upper limit of transfer shall be 10,000 NULS and this parameter can be modified.

  • Node creation. For example, a Councilor puts forward a proposal to create nodes with respect to developers and carry out a certain amount of delegation; the node rewards will be used to support the work to be performed by the developer.

  • Smart contract call. It aims to perform NRC20 token operation by calling the smart contract. For example, the Councilor shall call the smart contract with respect to the NTC.

  1. Start a vote. Councilor doesn’t need to pay a deposit if starting a vote and may initiate a vote of another type.
  2. Responsibilities of Councilor.

  • Councilor shall communicate with the community in good time.

  • Act in strict accordance with the community’s Constitution.

  • Share the same vision and purpose with NULS.

  • Take it as its own mission to protect community members’ interests.

Note: All community members shall take an active part in all proposals and voting because every proposal is critical to the development of the NULS project. As a member of NULS Community, every holder should participate in voting. The absence from voting of any member shall be deemed a waiver of the proposal or the voting right.

IV. NULS technology community (NTC)

(I) Introduction to the NTC

The NTC consists of core developers from the global NULS Community and those who are interested in blockchain technology and highly agree with the NULS philosophy. They will take part in underlying architecture development of the NULS project and create the technical ecology together.

(II) Philosophy of the NTC

We stick to the following philosophy in the technology community:

  1. Equal: the technology community and core team are equal and work together for joint development.

  2. Synergetic: the technology community and core team co-build the underlying architecture and create NULS ecology together.

  3. Sharing:

  • The whole community shares the achievements of NULS technology.

  • The whole community shares the development dividend of NULS.

  • The whole community shares NULS’s influence and reputation.

  • The industry shares the technical innovation brought by NULS.

  • The industry shares NULS’s standard establishment to promote industry development.

  1. Fair: the gains of every developer are based on his / her ability and contribution to seek for fairness and justice.

  2. Innovative: strong technology community is the basic guarantee of innovative thinking of blockchain.

(III) Appointment of the NTC member

The joining of every NTC member shall be put to vote. Before that they need to present output worthy and recognized to include a period of adaptation (1 or 2 months generally).

The process of joining NTC is:

  1. Have a preliminary communication with a NTC developer to briefly introduce his / her own experience and skilled programming language.
  2. Select tasks they are interested in and capable of. We will let developers join in each development taskforce to work with each other.
  3. Leader of the taskforce will provide necessary documentary information to help developers start in an efficient, expedient manner. We also hope developers can maintain effective communication with one another for smooth, ease of work. About 1 month later, the developer who remains consistent with the work and produces a high-quality product, can file a node application with the technology community.
  4. After intense review by the technology community and core team, the developer will be one of the NTC if the application is approved.

(IV) Rights and responsibilities of the NTC member

  1. NULS hopes to build a module repository covering 80% of underlying technologies in the blockchain field. We aim to lower the entry threshold of blockchain industry by increasing the modules in the repository. In doing so, the enterprises will undertake a much lower chain issuing cost and users will find it easier to use chains. We believe that only in this way can blockchain technology become a part of our daily life.

  2. The technology community will work with the core team to build a brand new architecture – NULS 2.0, which will enable NULS modules to work independently and the low-coupling module shall interact via the interface defined by standard. Then, developers (regardless of development language) can use adept programming languages as long as they comply with NULS module standard to develop the functional modules they need to enrich the module repository.

  3. After that, NULS will launch ChainBox, a chain creation tool based on the module repository. If the developer is very clear about parameters of the blockchain developed by himself / herself, like the consensus mechanism, block size and block producing time, even if he / she doesn’t have much understanding of the underlying technology, he / she can own a public chain within several minutes in 4 simple steps (of course consortium blockchain and private blockchain are available). The public blockchain development time, which is usually six months to one year, is greatly reduced.

  4. Technology community will take part in all of the work mentioned above. You can bring forward any suggestions and comments to our plans regarding the technology community.

  5. The NTC members, the same as the core team members, shall have the right to know, participate in, assent or object to project progress.

V. Contributor

(I) Contributor for campaign

Contributor role for campaign will be deemed a post in the community available for post-based recruitment and community supervision and management. The Ambassador is a contributor role for campaign and the current Ambassador campaign rules can be seen at https://forum.nuls.io/.

(II) Permanent contributor

Permanent contributor will be deemed a post in the community available for people-based post setting and community supervision and management.

VI. Project Budget

(I) With respect to contributor

Where the Foundation account operation is performed based on the approved proposal of a contributor role in accordance with the established requirements, the Councilors shall put forward a proposal to start a vote. The voting period will last 7 days and if the approval rating reaches 70%, the proposal will be executed.

(II) With respect to other transaction funds

The Councilors shall put forward a proposal to apply for other budget items. According to the proposal, The voting period will last 15 days and if the approval rating reaches 70%, the proposal will be executed as planned.

VII. Other votes

(I) Start a vote

  1. The Councilor shall start a vote and only the transaction fee is required.

  2. Ordinary members shall cast a vote. Deposit (100 NULS now) + transaction fee.

(II) Vote by proxy

  • Anyone can delegate his / her voting right to an agent who shall cast a vote on behalf of him / her.

  • Any NULS user can be an agent.

  • Only primary agency is allowed; secondary agency is prohibited. Every NULS user is only allowed to delegate his / her own voting right.

  • The agency can be cancelled at any time and the vote that has been given will be revoked (voting in progress).

VIII. Feedback

We welcome all of your suggestions and comments on this Constitution. Please contribute your suggestions to the following URLs:

NULS community website: https://forum.nuls.io/

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