Getting Started

Gives a 3-day half-life. If everyone unstakes, conviction halves every 72 hours. Fast enough to respond to changing sentiment, slow enough to reward patience. Based on Commons Stack / 1Hive research — most conviction systems use 2-7 day half-lives.

A proposal requesting 1,000 XRD needs conviction score of 10,000 to auto-execute. This means a single person staking 1,000 XRD would need ~4 days of sustained staking to pass. A group of 10 staking 1,000 each would pass in hours. Prevents lone-wolf proposals while rewarding community support.

Conviction updates hourly (anyone can trigger). Short enough for responsive governance, long enough to prevent gas-wasting spam. Each update applies: new_conviction = 0.9904 * old_conviction + weighted_stake.

Earned trust amplifies your voice. A Builder staking 100 XRD has the conviction weight of a Member staking 200 XRD. Tiers come from XP (voting, proposing, completing tasks) — not wealth. Prevents pure plutocracy.

All proposals compete for the same pool. The community can only fund what the pool holds. This creates natural prioritization — high-conviction proposals drain the pool first. Admin funds the pool; later this can be fed by platform fees.