2026-06-15
Discord, Part 3
- Part three details how the governance Discord functions, moving through three stages: ideation, a closed beta, and an open launch.
- To stop leaks that manufacture scandals from unformed ideas, it uses Chatham House rules enforced by zero knowledge anonymity, so opinions carry no attribution.
- Conversations run through domain expert circles with facilitators, increasingly AI facilitators, and anonymous voting via tools like Semaphore on Midnight.
- Teeth come from a political party that blocks funding for projects that refuse to participate, since public funds should require accountability.
- The system is used for three things: define growth metrics in the constitution, establish executive function in a version two, then set a strategy and one yearly budget with funding organizations.
- It is not no Homers: every ADA holder is welcome under a code of conduct, like a surgical theater that exists for a purpose, not free speech.
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Stage one is ideation, a working group defining the purpose and the RACI of responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed, plus staffing moderators.
A key attack vector is a hostile actor leaking an unformed idea, like printing more ADA, to X to manufacture a scandal.
Chatham House rules from 1927 let participants use the information but never reveal who said it, removing attribution.
Zero knowledge technology enforces that: you can prove you belong to the governance Discord while your identity stays anonymous.
Conversations use governance circles typed to domain expertise, sampled to keep the discussion statistically representative.
A facilitator drives goal orientation, and an AI facilitator can be programmed to know the definition of success before a conversation spawns.
The anonymity layer also enables anonymous voting, and a tool like Semaphore would work even better on Midnight than on Ethereum.
Teeth come from a political party that automatically blocks funding for any project that will not join and participate in the process.
If you receive public funds to grow Cardano, you have a duty to be part of the accountability process, not just submit to audits.
The Discord is token gated so every member is a real ADA holder, like Collab.Land, though Cardano is too rarely on such integration lists.
The structured conversations form a governance knowledge graph, a single source of truth for a tuned AI expert system built into every wallet.
The system's first job is to establish Cardano's growth metrics, which belong in the preamble of the constitution as its highest law.
The second job is establishing executive function and new roles, which together form constitution version two.
The third job is a strategy and budget, reintroducing funding organizations with a single treasury withdrawal per year.
A D rep would then face one debate a year, not 45, unlike today's direct democracy with 600 million ADA of proposals making enemies on every vote.
The governance space is not the Simpsons no Homers club: every ADA holder is welcome, but under a code of conduct with real rules.
Like a surgical theater, a governance space exists for a purpose and outcome, not for free speech or off topic grievances.
Rage baiters contribute no ideas, and punishing anyone who supports a speaker makes real governance impossible.
The current governance process is an energy vampire that drains your time and soul and gives nothing in return.
He spent 2 million dollars on an audit that exonerated ten years of conduct, and the response was to call the auditors corrupt.
He does not want to be a king or president, but he does need to lead by bringing people along and including them in the conversation.
Once the structure exists he can take Q and A from well moderated channels like the Midnight Discord instead of the bad faith raw internet.