AIP-474: Delegated ApeCoin Community Voting Wallet

That’s not the point.

And why would Snapshot make a claim that they have a strategy solution for everyone?

The point is that the pre-existing voting system is horrifically inadequate, and the only people who seem to think “yeah, this is fine” fall into two camps :

  • whales
  • those who benefit from whale voting

Sitting around talking about it, instead of finding a solution isn’t going to yield any results. And while there are remedies in Snapshot, everything has a backdoor which can be exploited. That’s just a factor in any software; and is why I wrote this other proposal tasking the Ape Foundation to come up with a solution. And I gave several options. I invite you to read that proposal because it’s a lot more detailed in scope than this one.

AIP-471: Special Council To Propose Voting System Reform

FYI, Snapshot supports quadratic voting. And if you go to that link (also included in the proposal), you will see a huge banner that says:


This Voting type may encourage the whales to create multiple wallets and split their holdings among them. Therefore it’s important to also implement a mechanism providing Sybil Resistance. Read more here!

Pros : Dilutes the whales’ voting power in favor of smaller holders. Individuals will matter more than the number of tokens.
Cons : This voting type needs to be accompanied by a Sybil-resistance mechanism that prevents whales from splitting funds across different wallets.


There’s no “random 3rd party”. Where are you getting that from? If you click the pencil on the top-right, you will see the proposal changes. I had opted for GwG to handle this. But I was informed - as you will see from the proposal update - that they can’t do it without my asking them to do so. And so, I opted for three community members to handle the voting with that specific wallet.

I have to mention once again that allocating a $25M voting wallet is purely designed to give the community - not external voting whale wallets - a voice in their own DAO. It’s not hard to understand. Whether or not it ends up having the desired effect is left to history.

Have you see this proposal?

Restoring Balance