Basis of Vortex
Vortex is based on five major principles through which the main organizational branches are structured:
Cognitocracy
Meritocracy
Local determinism
Constant deterrence
Power detachment resilience
Cognitocracy (from Latin verb cognoscere ‘to know’ and from Ancient Greek kratos 'rule') - a legislative model based on granting the voting rights only to those who are able to bring constructive and deployable innovation (Cognitocrats). It is a system that tries to concentrate decision-making capabilities in the hands of those who have proven to be professional and creative enough to receive the rights to vote on matters of a certain specialization. Throughout this paper words “Cognitocrat” and “Governor” are used interchangeably, as one can’t become a governor without being a cognitocrat.
Vortex aims to be a cognitocratric meritocracy where merit of innovation and optimization is separately evaluated from the merit of functional work. Both cognitocracy and meritocracy aim to concentrate power in the hands of those who have proof of proficiency in a specialization. Vortex aims to take into account the quantitative and qualitative data of contribution of governors to the Humanode network, through various forms of Proof-of-Time and Proof-of-Devotion that will act as cornerstones of a governor's emancipation from the Nominee to the Citizen status.
Ideology is usually a system of ideas or ideals that aims to regulate the economy and political processes of human society through a certain prism of principles and instruments. Local determinism denies ideology, as ideology is more a means of gaining political power rather than a viable approach to good decision-making. Local determinism acknowledges that any field of expertise has a tremendous amount of details and intricacies and that solutions that actually work efficiently on the ground don't usually align with the ideology that governs it. As long as a solution works and does so efficiently it doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum it might be associated with.
One of the underlying principles of Vortex is the principle of constant deterrence. As any governing system, Vortex is a dynamic one, where balances and narratives constantly shift. The game changes faster than any checks and balances structure can evolve to deter the constantly changing meta. The principle of constant deterrence implies that individuals that comprise the governing body must actively seek centralization threats and mitigate them, refrain from delegating their vote and maximize their direct participation in governing processes. To carry out this deterrence efficiently there must be a transparent way of telling in which state the governing body is. Vortex will present the governors with a dedicated app allowing them not only to participate in governance, but also to clearly see based on data what state the system is in. By combining it with the principle of an active quorum, where only those governors who are actively participating are counted in the quorum, we hypothetically get a dynamic, flexible, transparent and active system of constant deterrence that would be aimed to hold at bay any force such as populists, oligarchs, collusionist, etc that might be trying to centralize efforts of the system for their own personal advantage.
Power detachment is a serious issue of most blockchain governing entities out there. The fact is that the real power is usually distributed among top validators, as an inherent principle from capital-based Sybil-resistant protocols, and core teams of projects, while governance is misrepresented by active community members and some stakeholders. In an effort to make governance seem egalitarian there are even cases where chains introduced 1 human = 1 vote chambers on top of the existing PoS but this led to even more misrepresentation. Humanode aims to minimize detachment by making sure that every node is an individual, by providing the underlying principle of equality of all the nodes in terms of validation power, by making sure that governors are only composed of Humanode validators and by maximizing validator participation in governance. The detachment will still be there as there is almost zero chance that all validators partake in the governance, so the amount of governors will be less than the amount of validators. At the same time it will not be a democratic facade, behind which top stakeholders and core team members can rule as they see fit due to real power being concentrated in their hands.
Vortex structure
Vortex consists of three major parts:
Proposal pools
Vortex
Formation
Proposal pools and voting chambers belong to the legislative branch. Formation belongs to the executive branch.
Vortex Roles
Vortex consists of Human nodes, Delegators, and Governors-cognitocrats.
Human node — a person who has gone through proper biometric processing, participates in blockchain consensus and receives network transaction fees but does not participate in governance.
Governor — a human node who participates in voting procedures according to governing requirements. If governing requirements are not met, the protocol converts him back to a non-governing human node automatically.
Delegator — a Governor who decides to delegate his voting power to another Governor.
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