Grin is a new Mimblewimble-based cryptocurrency that offers privacy and scalability improvements.
- launched on January 15th, 2019
There are no current or future plans to create an official Grin Foundation or legal entity. Grin has bi-weekly governance meetings that anyone can participate in. The Governance forum is quite active, with many threads around governance norms and frameworks.
The Grin Technical Council is currently composed of 8 members. The Council’s main responsibility includes management of the Grin General Fund, as well as stewardship of the protocol through the open development and governance meetings.
Funding
As mentioned previously, Grin launched in a fair manner, and project founders and developers don’t receive any funding directly from the protocol, or from investors.
As such, Grin relies primarily on two different means of funding.
- Individual project based fundraising — in which individual campaigns are proposed and funded by donors. Examples include Yeastplume’s funding campaigns, as well as the Security Audit Funding. The money raised goes directly into an account controlled by the person making the request. This is a similar model to Monero’s Forum Funding System, where anyone in the community can propose a project and request funding.
- General Funding for Grin’s Development — Grin has a General Fund that’s always open for donations, and goes towards a miscellaneous set of costs related to Grin development, including service fees, marketing materials, travel, developer funding, or legal support.
Many early ecosystem participants (miners, funds, pools) have chosen to contribute to Grin. Grinmint has chosen to donate a percentage of pool proceeds to the Grin developer team. Additionally, Obelisk has committed to donating a portion of their revenue from their Grin ASIC to supporting Grin development.
Grin Risk Management
Blockchain governance is most relevant in times of disaster, distress, or conflict. Bitcoin Governance demonstrated its strength during the Segwit2x hard fork. Ethereum demonstrated its governance system during the DAO event.
Grin developers have written a lot about their risk management system, and have brainstormed the specific downside scenarios, and ways to respond. It’s generally good practice to brainstorm various scenarios, and think about contingency plans and potential responses. Many of the scenarios they’ve outlined, such as the possibility of a critical bug, secret ASICs, or a 51% attack are very real scenarios that have happened to many other blockchains.
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