Initial Board Members Include Prominent EOS Influencers Brock Pierce, Bancor and LiquidEOS Co-Founder Galia Benartzi, and Multi-Platinum Music Artist AKON
A global group of EOS blockchain community members and Block Producers today unveiled EOS Alliance. This new coordinating group will further unlock the full potential of EOS, the world’s fastest governed blockchain, by providing a platform for collaborative, transparent decision-making and information-sharing within the EOS community.
EOS Alliance, established as a nonprofit entity, will serve the EOS community by streamlining and facilitating communication and education that affects EOS token holders, Block Producers, application creators and other stakeholders.
The move was endorsed by dozens of influential stakeholders in the distributed EOS community, including over three dozen EOS Block Producers.
EOS Alliance Mandate
The EOS Alliance will serve under its guiding vision of Empowering EOS For All to curate and coordinate various existing efforts within the EOS community. The Alliance will:
- Facilitate multi-language conversations (initially in English, Korean and Chinese) and education around key ecosystem issues, debates and developments.
- Refrain, in accordance with its bylaws (now being drafted), from gaining any executive power within EOS governance structures.
- Facilitate discussion and help workgroups make clear recommendations.
As its first act, the EOS Alliance has already begun forming a series of working groups with diverse community participation to inform and advise on the ecosystem’s most challenging topics.
EOS Alliance Leadership
The EOS Alliance will launch initially with a seven (7) member Board, expanding as needed in a process currently under draft.
Within 12 months, the EOS Alliance intends to have a fully elected board, to include members of diverse backgrounds and geographic regions, representing a variety of EOS community stakeholders and perspectives.
Staff initially will include interim Executive Director Thomas Cox, former Block.one VP of Product (where he led the work on EOS’s governance mechanisms), Deputy Executive Director Myra Wang (Dan Wang), formerly of the influential Chinese community EOS Gravity, and Communications Director Kevin Wilcox, co-founder of EOS Go.
The board and staff are in the advanced stages of forming a legal foundation as a nonprofit public benefit entity in an advanced jurisdiction.
EOS Alliance Support and Sustainability
Pledges of funding have been secured for the first 90 days of operation, and board members are tasked with fundraising for the Alliance. Additionally, the Alliance will be funded by private donations, to be made in EOS tokens so all transactions will be public and transparent on the EOS blockchain. In its first six months, the Alliance will create a sustainability plan beginning with donations, events, memberships, content, trainings and more. The EOS Alliance is initially capping its budget at US $1 million per year. All EOS Alliance financial information will be publicly available.
