Discussion: What should the gitcoin community multisig do with the donated AKITA

🧙 🧙‍♀️ Ideas and Open Discussion
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isaac

I will address each of your concerns.

  1. Akita devs could participate in a grants round and compete for funding the same as everyone else, based on the quality of their work, that seems fair doesn’t it?

Was SHIBA forced to compete to get their community back? I don’t think you’ve gotten past the first part of the problem yet. How do you liquidate your prize without cannibalizing a community?
Each token liquidated is value taken out of our community’s hands. No one asked for this. We took a project that was dead and build it up from nothing, with our own personal funds.

#2. “Freedom to send half your supply to a single person. freedom to donate them towards a community funding public goods. freedom for that community to sell them, or do whatever it determines is the best use of those funds for itself. freedom to collaborate on ideas too, if anyone has any creative and novel suggestions.”

Yes if the Gitcoin community is willing to do that to our community sure, the power is yours.

#3. “This is very important. What is that plan?(Establish governance and funding for our community project) Can anyone show anything to us? (Our Github repos are public) code?(Our Github repos are public) design documents?(What kind of design?) if we consider this an investment in a roadmap, then where is it?** ( Here https://www.polarfox.io/docs ) can we review it, critique it, improve it? (Sure) are the devs dedicated enough to that vision to lock up their own tokens in a vesting contract? (We have paid for this out of pocket thus far so , sure.) how about the community, will they lock up in a vesting contract?( I’m sure they would) you seem dedicated, will you lockup your funds like you are asking gitcoin to do?(Yes) are we assured devs are capable of managing a project with many millions of $ of gitcoins funds on the line? (Theyre only gitcoins funds if you choose to kill our community) what is their track record like, can we trust them? (We have gone public from a telegram group, we are a new team. ) Do they share the same values?” (I personally do , but why does this matter? )

Vega5 posted a link whilst i was writing. Seems like they are making a dex on avalance? (Yes we are) and one sentence about decentralized social media?(I’ve written many sentences, but the decentralized social media wont be built until we have governance and our dex up)
Details would be great… Looks like another uniswap fork?(Yes, it is cloned from pangolin/zero/uni) why is it called polarfox?(Why are you called Isaac?) Why is there a separate $fox token for governance, and how does it relate to akita? (We dont have access to the AKITA contract, so we will stake AKITA with PFX to yield a governance token) why is the git repo empty?(Its not) why did you choose avalanche over other chains? ( Avalanche is an underrated blockchain with a team of really smart people, Avalanche’s consensus model is winning awards in computer science, Avalanche is already a next GEN L1 blockchain. Room for growth. )
I joined the discord but it seems people are only talking about the token price and exchange listings, as i kind of expected. I am surprised how little conversation there is about gitcoin being sent 50% of the supply… why hasn’t an announcement been made to the community? (Yes the community has been well informed.) honestly, it looks like the usual pnd token,(really the usual 1B market cap PND token huh) like the hundreds of other cloned tokens.(right all of those other ones ended up on gitcoin forums fighting for their lives) I really don’t get why we should be supporting this." ( You should be supporting this because this is what decentralization is supposed to be. People coming together from many places to do one thing. We were literally rugged, and a team formed. A team of like minded people that wanted to fix a situation together. Why would you not want to support us? We are real people, have become friends over the past 5 months. This is a part of our lives now. We are part of Ethereum history whether you like it or not.)

“We can fund hundreds of projects, toys, hackathons, using the tokens that have been donated to us. Or we could fund akita? Just asking questions before we give up a lot of money for a meme.” ( I kinda feel how i’d expect a person experiencing racism to feel, the “for a meme” line is kind of played out. We’re working hard, we made our identities public, we are really funding this ourselves, I just find this really offensive, probably because I have actually worked hard. Sure you can fund hundreds of projects, by killing the one that actually worked to get where they are without funding, how ironic.)

“There is no authority but yourself :slight_smile:”

and Isaac apparently.

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Thank you for helping us move forward. I have posted my proposal.

I still have open questions about it. Please help me answer them, and I will amend the proposal as needed.

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Hey, lead dev in the AKITA team here.

Feel free to ask any technical questions if they need an answer.

I’ve seen many people in this thread complain about the AKITA Telegram not being serious and only discussing the price. What do you expect of a group with 35,000 people?

You can check Polarfox’s Telegram here to see more interesting conversations and that people are actually interested in the project.

Our code is public and can be accessed here. We are open to any suggestions.

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Gitcoin as an organisation is coming across as a person that picked up a wallet with $$$ and someones ID card in it, so they know who it belongs to. The person that lost the wallet is asking for it back, but Gitcoin claims they can spend the fund in said wallet better? They know what the right things to do is but they are trying to justify their actions.

Vitalik did a token burn with the Shiba Inu he received, if Vatalik didn’t send Akita to Gitcoin what would he have done? He would’ve burned the tokens if you were looking for an answer.

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Isaac, I think you need to take a second to zoom out a little bit, all you are doing is trying to justify your actions by rug pulling a crypto project because you feel it’s just a meme coin, Ever heard of Doge coin, it’s a meme coin in the TOP 10! Now Akita has to justify themselves to you, are you actually being serious right now?

Why was 50% sent to VB in the first place? It was sent to him as a token burn wasnt it?
The only reason VB sold some Shiba and made the mistake of sending Gitcoin the AKITA is because ETH couldn’t handle the traffic the meme coins were bringing to the network so he had to do something to bring down the gas fees. He has since burned most of the Shiba tokens, so you have to ask yourself what would he have done with Akita? He would’ve burned it as well wouldn’t he?

The only way I see this is you picked up a wallet with money and an ID card in it, the owner on the ID card is asking for his wallet back. But you already saw the money in the wallet and thought of all the million ways to spend it, even telling the owner that you would be able to spend his money better unless he can somehow convince you otherwise?

At the end of the day we all make our own decisions, and we have to live with ourself afterwards.

PS - I see there is only 104 comments so far, should I bring some of the Akita community over to state our case? Since they have been kept in the dark what you want to do with 50% of the tokens.

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Above, Scott mentions me as the primary proponent of the “Send it back to Vitalik” path. I wanted to expand a bit on my position.

First, this suggestion is in no way a remark about the value of or lack of value of these particular tokens. My suggestions is 100% in support of the future viability of Gitcoin.

Second, a thought experiment: assume GitCoin does not get rid of these tokens and instead tries to stabliize or even maximize the value of the tokens because they want to use them as future funding. How many other new token will do the same thing in the future? None? One? Thousands? What happens to GitCoin when thousands of new tokens try to use it as a source of legitimacy? One thing: GitCoin’s legitimacy goes to zero.

Third: Getting rid of the tokens as if they were toxic waste is a metaphor. Are the tokens actually toxic waste? Who cares. There is no outcome where keeping them benefits GitCoin in the long run. That’s the only reason I say get rid of them.

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I am absolutely befuddled by the recent responses here.

“Gitcoin as an organisation is coming across as a person that picked up a wallet with $$$ and someones ID card in it, so they know who it belongs to. The person that lost the wallet is asking for it back, but Gitcoin claims they can spend the fund in said wallet better? They know what the right things to do is but they are trying to justify their actions.”

What in tarnation. This is a donation that was given to a nonprofit entity for a specific purpose.

Doing anything else with it other than fulfilling that purpose is completely ignoring the intention of the donation and moreso is against the ethos of web3 as a whole. This isnt Gitcoins money to decide what to do with. This was Vitalik’s and he already decided.

Its not up to Gitcoin to determine whether they should use this for Gitcoin grant funding. Its up to gitcoin to determine the most effective way to do so.

Pretending Gitcoin would be rugging a project in doing so is a ridiculous platitude that ignores the intent of the original allocation to Vitalik.

The only question is whether the akita community has a proposal at the table that maximizes its value.

If they do not, its then up to Gitcoin to sell the token in the most efficient manner possible.

There isn’t really much room for debate there unless the Akita devs and community themselves can identify a way they or their project are currently able to bring value and fulfil the intent of the donation.

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I strongly believe Gitcoin should liquidate the resources and put them to work.

Unless someone can explain how AKITA is going to fund public goods I’m all ears.

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@JTraversa I am also absolutely befuddled with your responses.

I quote:
“This isnt Gitcoins money to decide what to do with” (read the last quote it gets better)
“Its not up to Gitcoin to determine whether they should use this for Gitcoin grant funding. Its up to gitcoin to determine the most effective way to do so.”

This is my favourite one - “The only question is whether the akita community has a proposal at the table that maximizes its value.” “If they do not, its then up to Gitcoin to sell the token in the most efficient manner possible.”

I stick with what I said before, Gitcoin is just trying to justify their action and hiding behind Vatalik is sad to see.

Why did AKITA send the tokens to Vatalik? They sent it there to be burned didn’t they?
So we just have to assume he sent it to Gitcoin so they could carry out the burn.
This was the original reason why 50% of the tokens were sent why is Gitcoin trying to change the narrative?

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Solely from the position of a community member of the Akita Network, I need to chime in here. What many of our experience has been has been the ability to experience a pivot in action.

Stated clearly, Akita was formed as a MEME coin, a shit coin if you will. Whoever made the coin, abandoned it somewhere down the line. As the story spread around forums and Telegram rooms, it became even less clear. The creator also apparently made a bone-headed decision to send half of the coins to Vitalik, creating the very unstable foundations where we stand today.

HOWEVER, we as Akitans have seen many things beginning to brew, and I will say that our core is optimistic. We have seen some community members be drawn into active roles in the project. Self-funded. Without a definitive answer on what will be done with the donated Akita. The dev team provides consistent updates, and often asks for input from the community. Updates, even though they’ve been subjected to a never-ending barrage of questions about the project on Telegram. And while this project may not yet be packaged up and marketed into what many at GitCoin would like to see right now, that doesn’t make it any less valuable. This is the value, it’s the evolution of the project.

What our community craves is certainty. We ask that both sides come to the table in good faith to bring the maximum amount of value from the donation AND the community. There is much good we can do together.

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Very curious. What gives you this impression?

There is nothing that provides a basis for this claim. If they wanted them burned, they send them to the universal burn address. Like every other project that burns does. Any tokens sent to Vitalik were simple marketing. Thats it.

Using mental gymnastics trying to validate some distorted perception of ownership and of charity isn’t necessary. We’ve been told what to do with the tokens.

On calbears comment:

“What our community craves is certainty. We ask that both sides come to the table in good faith to bring the maximum amount of value from the donation AND the community. There is much good we can do together.”

Yes. This is the only path. The question is whether the Akita community has any proposition at the table to do this.

If they do not, why is the onus being placed on Gitcoin. There is no logical chain of thought that would result in that conclusion when there has already been established intentions.

The Akita community expecting others to create value is pretty ridiculous given the context that there hasn’t been a single proposition from their community other than “Dont sell the tokens” or “Give them back”. Neither can be classified as good faith nor maximum value.

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Hello my name is Sahputra and i too am from the AKITA community, i write this from a personal standpoint as a mid-late average joe investor because its actually kinda scary and frustrating reading some of these comments here

Firstly i really dont understand how selling the 50% supply off quickly / most efficiently and damaging / hindering the akita project in the process is even up for debate for a community like Gitcoin. I think most of you havent even understood the first problem that comes to mind

Dont look at the investors, screw them (me)…
Whoever invests into a crypto / meme coin should know what he’s getting into, at least most should. The price can go up, sideways or straight to hell and its a risk investors should be able to deal with on their own.
But atleast do look at the people who got hurt by the initial roots of akita then took that dead project into their own hands, funded it themselves and made it public again, with decent success i might add (price wise) and even their path and vision of what AKITA wants to become is (for me) interessting and something to look forward to

Secondly I understand that the Gitcoin Community doesnt owe AKITA anything, I understand that sending the 50% supply to Vitalik was a publicity stunt yet not one that relic and his team made, but also from my understanding its Gitcoins mission to help build / fund the open web like stated by Mr owocki, not destroying something thats in the making.

Whats been given to you is essencially not Hard Cash to use but a crypto currency, now i dont think i have to explain how cashing these in like some members on the board suggested would impact Akita, im sure everyone in here is smarter than me.
So infact whats been given to you is power over the work others have done so far, you may destroy it, set it back, help it or even leave it be but I really dont think funding projects you deem better justifies destroying / hindering a selfunded project and is not in line with Gitcoins mission at all

Finally all said and done im not even here to suggest any solution, of course i would love to see the communities come together, work together and build together. But if i do it’ll just be stamped as “oh hes just another investor afraid of losing his money or maximize his profits” in most peoples mind and im not smart enough to even imagine how to do this

If anything from a neutral standpoint, if you believe that the AKITA project is unworthy of funding/helping/working together or just another meme coin or whatever then just leave them be, but dont put the hammer on them and waste the work and money they put into the project just because you have a bag of money infront of your eyes.

The most neutral suggestion i read here was from Mr.Tjayrush;
Just send it back to Vitalik see what he does ,let AKITA fight it out again if he decides to send it to someone else or maybe he even burns them like we(AKITA) wish he would do. Gitcoins hands would be clean, reputation and ligitimacy intact, and everyone can just move On from this messy situation…

After all Gitcoin has been doing just fine if not great even without the money they could gain from this donation

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After all Gitcoin has been doing just fine if not great even without the money they could gain from this donation

Its not about Gitcoin. Its about open sourced funding, the donation is specifically meant to fund Gitcoin grant quadratic funding matching. This is a completely separate entity from Gitcoin itself.

And I appreciate the sentiment of this comment. But the difficulty is that as you said, none of this proposes any solutions whatsoever other than to ignore the intent and act like Vitalik donated on accident?

Theres kind of an issue there.

Of course its not in Gitcoins best interest to just 100% dump the coins either. That doesnt maximize their value.

But I’m sure at some point Akita devs have to either propose something reasonable, or Gitcoin needs to commit to a given sale scheme, whether internally or publicly.

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Hello Mr.JTraversa,

I dont really understand how it is not about Gitcoin when the whole Gitcoin community was asked what to do about the donation…

I understand its for funding public goods in grants, i never meant to say that it would go into Gitcoins personel pocket

The difficulty is actually way more complex than what you present, if you read my comment or even relic’s its already mentioned that the supply was sent to vitalik not by relic and his team but by the original developer of the AKITA token who then dissapeared to lord knows where…
No one who argued on AKITAS behalf here or even relic himself asked for this, i wouldnt even be writing here making a case if they did

Relic and his team picked up the pieces of what was left of AKITA and rebuild with their own funds, time and energy not even imagining that the supply sent to vitalik would actually even be touched or looked at by him (a blunder yes but everyone makes one)

Now let’s be real, even i as an investor do think that vitalik doesnt know anything about AKITA’s history or rootings at all, heck i dont even know the whole story behind it and i put money in it…
All i know is people have been lied to and left with a dead, broken and unkown project. Relic happened to be there and instead of crying how unfair the world is he build a team with some if those people and rebuild AKITA into a mooning token within 4 months (wtf is there to not frikken respect pls, i am sry but i had to say it)

Vitalik probably looked at the token, the price, the listings, the marketcap and amount of holders did a quick math thought about power over people he did not want and donated it (washed his hands)…
If he knew the whole story i doubt we would be here debating, so rather than an accident you could say Vitalik send the donation to Gitcoin without fully knowing what happened with AKITA but trusting it was in good hands with Gitcoin

I am not saying that it isnt seeing as veteran members and other members in this forum have been respectfull with their replies towards this issue, its just that when i see people like you and others (no offense meant) talk about not 100% selling everything at once since it doesnt maximize value, most efficient way of selling and internal selling scheme it makes me think a little wether it actually is, seeing as you and others are still treating this as a bag of money ignoring anything related to it and quite frankly some comments in here sound like a bloodfest that everyone would enjoy and the public would benefit from

Also i never said none of this will solve anything i only stated that i personally cannot bring anything informative to the table to make our communities work together, i did give an example of a neutral solution tho and the reasons as to why to reject the donation were also already mention by Mr.Tjayrush who originally proposed it so i dont have to repeat them i hope

Sry i write much

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Please try to have a rational discussion or just go somewhere else… an entire post railing on a shadow of a position and calling people communists adds nothing. (the irony is great in the context of the akita community calling 1 person’s (vitalik’s) money “their communities money”)

But to respond to the only thing you mentioned, if I were to send you $10000 dollars purposefully, would that be me “burning the money”. Or would you now own it?

Or even more pointedly, if the creators of the coin wanted to reduce the overall supply by 50% on inception. Its as simple as putting in a number half as large as the total supply. There is no logical train of thought that results in one burning funds by giving them to another party.

But beyond this semantic game, I’ll just reiterate a third time. It doesn’t matter what moral ground any party wants to take.

What matters is the current situation. And the situation requires the Akita devs either propose something reasonable which provides values to both parties, or Gitcoin commit to a given sale scheme.

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First point - because it’s so typical and obvious, it begs to be touched upon - telling me to go somewhere else because you don’t like what I have to say. Is this not 100% typical and representative of communist cancel culture? Censoring and suppressing the opposition? Cancelling dissenting voices? Eliminating the battle of ideas because your ideas are bad.

Please. Just step outside your position for two seconds and look at that.

As has already been stated, sending tokens to VB for safekeeping was a commonplace attention-getting marketing strategy used by many of these dog meme coins, and others, at that point in time. All of these projects sent coins to VB for safekeeping - not one expecting the super-billionaire to touch them or rug his own communities. And not one of his actions yet has suggested that VB would ever purposefully do that. It is only you, and those like you, who are suggesting you do that with the coins VB sent your way.

Is it rational for you to pretend these coins weren’t sent to VB for safekeeping?
You’ve done it multiple times now. As if anyone is actually buying that! It amazes me how such self-proclaimed smart people can’t see such a simple thing - but again, typical.

Or would it be more rational for all of us to see that you are simply in a position to benefit from these coins, thus explaining your “difficulty” grasping this simple concept, which has already been iterated to you through numerous comments, and proven to you via screenshots of the website itself?

Wouldn’t it also be rational for us to assume that had you been an Akita holder, you would be in quite a different position from where you are now, and would not want your investment plundered by others?

It is rational to deduce that it is only because you are NOT in that position that you’re cool with plundering Akita. And every word you have to say in justification of that action is just plain spin control.

“:the act or practice of attempting to manipulate the way an event is interpreted by others”

Pretending that these coins were ever meant to be spent by VB is a transparent and pathetic argument. No one actually believes this, besides the few of you with corruption in your hearts - those of you willing to destroy your brother for your own benefit. So even though you may believe your own BS, good luck getting anyone else to - and that’s all that really matters for Gitcoin’s future reputation, in this regard.

This has already been proposed. And again we can all clearly see that it is only you, and those like you, who are having trouble grasping a proposal that benefits both parties, as you continue to push for a “sale scheme” that benefits only you.

“Keep 5%-10% of the coins you have - don’t dump them - use them to set up funds, pools, etc. Burn the other 90%-95%.” …as has been stated numerous times, JTraversa.

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Why doesn’t it matter?

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EspaĂąol/Spanish

Yo creo que con el 5% deberia ocuparse en :

1% asuntos de traducciones y comunicaciones ya que somos muchos de diferentes partes y no vamos a estar siempre operando en inglĂŠs o telegram asĂ­ que por ello 1% destinado a traducciones y comunicaciones a todos los miembros de akita que sea por tiempo mĂĄs que por inversiĂłn. Pienso que ser parte de algo no es ver quĂŠ parte tiene la persona.

1% en una inversiĂłn que sea de Akita que de dividendos como por ejemplo algun equipo de deportes electrĂłnicos que sea de Akita o auspiciar un espacio en Youtube sobre akita (elijiria en este caso a thetha y asĂ­ promocionar la cripto y el mundo de estĂĄs) serĂ­a la idea.

1% Donarlo a Cardano Ada con su intenciĂłn de ayudar a Africa con ello abrir vĂ­nculos con lugares mĂĄs allĂĄ de Avax

1% Quemarlo

1% donarlo a el 50% mĂĄs bajo de los holder de akita que son los que sufren con todo esto de las subidas y bajadas.

SerĂĄ un lindo mundo este de Akita

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What is the role for the AKITA token in Polarfox?

From these repos Polarfox has PFX token (polarfox-app/index.ts at b160174fe789db204942cabfd4a68264a8db1cf0 ¡ Polarfox-DEX/polarfox-app ¡ GitHub)

The Polarfox governance uses PFX /Polarfox-DEX/polarfox-governance

Dreamswap has DREAM token /Polarfox-DEX/polarfox-dreamswap-contracts/blob/main/contracts/DreamToken.sol

Dex reward PFX token github.com/Polarfox-DEX/polarfox-core/blob/master/contracts/utilities/StakingRewardsFactory.sol

The Akita token seems to not being used in the code.

You have the Akita contract in repo /Polarfox-DEX/polarfox-core/commit/5bf6f6c9fc697a618cad65ea37d952f9110aef6f but if you deploy this it would make new Akita token that you would control the entire mint balance of.

Why all these extra tokens?

What is the use for Akita here?

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Is it rational for you to pretend these coins weren’t sent to VB for safekeeping?

Yes it is. To do otherwise is nonsensical. Further it contributes nothing to the discussion and completely ignores the situation.

Or would it be more rational for all of us to see that you are simply in a position to benefit from these coins, thus explaining your “difficulty” grasping this simple concept, which has already been iterated to you through numerous comments, and proven to you via screenshots of the website itself?

My project is already funded and I gain nothing going forward from Gitcoin’s quadratic funding, but I care deeply about the open-source funding of web3.

Wouldn’t it also be rational for us to assume that had you been an Akita holder, you would be in quite a different position from where you are now, and would not want your investment plundered by others?

No it would not. I would understand the risks of buying a coin where 1 person holds 50% of the supply and if faced with this situation as a dev would attempt to tie value to the coins through one of the many open-source projects I work on.

It is rational to deduce that it is only because you are NOT in that position that you’re cool with plundering Akita. And every word you have to say in justification of that action is just plain spin control.

Hopefully by now youre getting the point. Personal attacks dont change the situation, and telling people to ignore the donation or simply burn without any rational reason doesnt help either.

What I am asking for is an Akita dev to come forward with any developmental or technical solution that might bring value to both parties. So far there hasn’t been any.

There are many ways to provide perpetual funding through a protocol. It’s the Akita devs job to try to bring an offer to the table. E.g. profit share to gitcoin matching fund in return for the burn.