Lex_node - Delegate Communication Thread

[lex_node]

some of my thoughts on the dangers of offchain social/governance rules:

Governance Cycles

imo, no definitely not “there should be/are governance cycles” is an offchain understanding/agreement not embedded in code there is no mechanism for binding all delegates or other ecosystem participants into this offchain understanding/agreement even if there were such a method, there is no practical way to enforce that understanding/agreement imo ZkSync should not fall prey to the same ‘let’s make up a bunch of offchain rules with no documentation/enforcement mechanism’ trend that so many o…

Governance Cycles

I think my explanation is fairly self-explanatory but to slightly elaborate: A rule that cannot be enforced or that everyone does not voluntarily abide by is not a rule Let’s say we have this ‘rule’ of ‘governance cycles’…what happens when someone makes a proposal ‘out of cycle’? You have no way to punish them, you have no way to prevent other people from supporting the proposal out of cycle–because the real rules are onchain, not whatever ‘rules about cycles’ we bureaucratically make up on th…