As governance facilitator it is our responsibility to measure delegate activity and make recommendations on who qualified for a payout each month.
There is one big change to the compensation calculation and one small one.
The big one is that each delegate has one Joker per year, which they can use to offset one missed vote. This month @404Gov and @DAOplomats used their 2025 joker to offset one missed vote in December.
The small change is that instead of Recent Read Time (which covers the last 60 days) we switched to Read Time this month (which covers the last 30d).
The current system for calculating compensation eligibility is designed to be extremely open and avoid lock-in.
A delegate can show up, provide value to the community, contribute to the forum and be eligible for compensation as long as they have:
- more than 10k stRIF delegation
- 90% or more of polls they voted on
- 90% or more of votes they explain in their forum thread
All delegates who meet these criteria are ranked by forum read time and likes received. The top 3 are Gold Tier delegates this month and receive 1,500 $USDRIF and the next 3 are Silver Tier delegates and receive 1,000 $USDRIF.
The system allows delegates access to compensation very quickly, as exemplified by @Ignas, who received compensation 2 months after joining.
Below is a screenshot of this month’s dashboard, here is a link to the Google Sheet. Please reach out via DM if you feel we have not counted correctly.
We’ll push the delegate compensation payout to an on-chain ratification vote shortly. The actual payout will currently happen manually, due to limitations for multi-send functionality in the on-chain executables of the polls.
Based on our calulations Gold Tier Delegates are:
Silver Tier Delegates are:
We also have a newcomer this month! Welcome @CodeKnight, who I know from the Maker AVC days.
Thanks to everyone who participates in governance! Rootstock Collective wouldn’t work if it wasn’t for you.
