Delegations - Who isn't being active.

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GM everyone,

As many of you are aware, I’ve been working on collecting data about AIP’s and have creating a dashboard on it to help provide transparency about our voting habits in the DAO: ApeCoin AIP Information Dashboard (WIP)

As part of that project, I have been collecting data on the delegates and am here to talk about the state of our delegates, and how many of them are no longer active.

As of the last voting cycle (November 21st 2024 - December 4th 2024), we had 297 Delegates that represent a total of 1341 Delegators. (Note: This list contains only delegates that have at least one delegator assigned to it. There are various website that will show a higher delegate count with the difference being due to delegates having 0 delegators). However, of these 297 delegates, very few actually participate in voting. If you look you look at the dashboard (Column BG) you will see that around ~25-35 delegates participate in voting per AIP.

This means a fairly large number of delegates are not actively participating in voting (specifically on AIPs), and I would like to take a moment to highlight them to hopefully showcase delegators who may not actually aware that their voices aren’t properly being heard.

As of the previous voting cycle, 71 delegates (with 146 delegators) have not voted since the end of 2023, with a combined total of 3,051,240.605 $APE

29 Delegates (with 103 delegators) have not voted since the end of June 2024. These delegates have a combined total of 6,743,820.488 APE

97 Delegates (with 168 Delegators) have never voted on an AIP . These delegates have a combined total of 9,455,412.869 $APE

Due to the large amount of data and information, I have moved everything on to Google Sheets. Please see the link below:

Please note, if an ENS Domain looks strange, it is most likely due to it pulling a Sub-Domain. Additionally this corresponding table pulled the first ENS of the potential plurality of ENS’ for the corresponding address. So just because it lists one ENS doesn’t mean it doesn’t have other ENS’

In total this shows that we have 197 delegates who haven’t been voting in the last 6 months, and who represent 417 delegators, with a combined total of 16,199,233.357 $APE. That number rises to 19,250,473.962 $APE if you include all of the delegates who have not voted on a single AIP.

While this does highlight that 100 delegates representing 924 delegators have participated in voting in the last six months, as I previously mentioned, only about ~25-35 delegates are actively voting on each AIP each voting cycle.

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This information and more can be found in the above Google Sheets.

Let me know fi there are any questions concerns, or issues.

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I have two questions: 1.) Can we get a total amount of $APE that goes unused for votes? 2.) Is it possible to name the delegates who have not voted by name, and not by wallet address?

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I can definitely get that information and am currently working on automating it. For right now, I don’t have it available.

This too is possible, but I will have to research how to automate it. The hard way is manually matching the address to an ENS via hXXps://app.ens.domains/insert wallet here
to see what comes up or to check or to check the profile on snapshot via hXXps://v1.snapshot.box/#/profile/insert wallet here

The potential issue is that these wallets can change profile names or ENS, but the wallet address will never change.

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Love this, thanks for putting it together

Codeiaks & Apewhale

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Nice! Great use of the data. Hopefully will activate even more activity!

-Trippies Delegation

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Great work on putting this together!

We have our weekly Saturday 10AM EST Show on X. Happy to see many of the delegates and aip authors.

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Good to have this map to Delegate names or their ENS.

As the Delegate Accelerator communities are voting.

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Good stuff. I second @LOR3LORD reply.

So, how can we get them active?

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I’d say the better question is how do we best reach out to the delegators whose delegates have not been participating in voting and get them to delegate to another delegate.

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We would need a tool when you login to the ApeCoin website.

It will check and say. You are delegating to xyz and they have not voted in xyz time.

Why not consider these other delegations? Which shows a list of active delegations.

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Just saw this thread and came here to say, we had received a small grant couple years ago from Apecoin to build delegate dashboard. We still have it running: Delegates of Apecoin DAO

You can see all delegates, their score based on how active they are, their voting power, their snapshot and onchain voting stats, voting history. You can also look up who has delegated to an address, example: https://www.karmahq.xyz/dao/apecoin/delegators/0x33924affe6bc352c246d7f384988f7b4ad5f9cf2

Hope this is useful with your analysis.

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@ApeWhale and @LOR3LORD

I’ve updated this information to include ENS Names, Snapshot Profile Names, and a corresponding amount of Voting Power. I also link to an excel sheet for more granular data.

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This is awesome I will have to play around with it more. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

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Voting every cycle.

  • AAC delegate
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I think one reason for the low voting rate is the lack of instant rewards since most AIP results take several months. The idea is to give voters a chance to win a prize pool of 600 APE per cycle, even if they vote “abstain.”
The prize would come from the AIP author, who must contribute 200 APE before their proposal goes to a vote. This also ensures the AIP author has a stake in the process.

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I’m not sure if this will help bring back more delegates, but it could help entice newer non-delegate voters. However, this could also be a recipe for trouble as it will promote gamification/farming.

The idea can be workshopped, and maybe we can work into ThankApe somehow.

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Yeah, you might be right. What could be the potential abuse?
The prize is random, no matter if the vote is yes, no, or abstain. 400 APE will be shared between 10 winners.
The amount is small enough to prevent farming but good enough to be rewarding.
As a personal voter, I find it rewarding to spend time looking into AIPs if there is some sort of reward

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