Objective
The objective of this proposal is to do research and refinement of a Nation3 Basic Income (āN3BIā), as a temporary project within the Research Guild.
The proposal builds upon the thoughts already published by @anastasiya in UBI as a public good - or unleashing human creativity and @0xGallegoās feedback given in Proposal: š§§ Basic Income for Nation3 Citizens.
āIntroduce UBI for Nation3 citizensā is one of the Phase 1 milestones listed on the Nation3 website:
North Star Metric
Metric: Number of active citizens.
Current metric: 17 citizens voted in the last Snapshot proposal (N3GOV-20).
Goal: Grow to 50 active citizens by the end of Q4 2022.
Definition of active: A citizen devoting 1h/week to Nation3.
Theory: A Basic Income for Nation3 Citizens will produce an incentive for passport holders to be active, so that they can become eligible to claim the basic income.
Work Plan
Definitions and Clarifications
- Clearly define what it means to be an active Nation3 citizen. Is it a citizen who votes? Is it a citizen who works? Is it a citizen who is involved? Is it based on activity during the past 1 month? Past 2 months? Past 3 months?
- Based on that definition, clarify whether or not the Nation3 Basic Income is meant to be an Unconditional Basic Income.
- Decide what we mean by basic income. How much is it? $3/month? $33/month? $333/month?
- For comparison, the Proof of Humanity $UBI is currently distributing $4.50 per month to each registered human.
- Suggested by @TonyStark: Do further research on how tradstates have tried to implement UBI systems.
- The UBI Guide by Scott Santens is a good place to start.
- Decide if the Nation3 Basic Income should work the same way for all types of citizens?
GENESIS
citizensSTANDARD
citizensNation3 Fellowship
citizens
Sybil Resistance
- Suggested by @0xGallego: Research sybil resistance strategies to avoid incentivizing the same people to hold more than one genesis passport only to abuse this distribution.
- Giving basic income per
GENESIS
passport builds an economic incentive to distribute your$NATION
between multiple locks and claim a passport with each one. Research how to avoid this incentive.
- Giving basic income per
- Research sybil resistance strategies based on NationCred and how they compare against other solutions, e.g. the Gitcoin Passport.
NationCred Integration
- Research scalable methods of moving citizen activity (NationCred rank) of an Ethereum address on-chain.
- Research incorporation of Snapshot voting into NationCred. Should we create a subgraph for querying Nation3 citizensā recent voting activity?
- Research incorporation of Dework reputation into NationCred.
- Research other ways of measuring a citizenās on-chain/off-chain activity dedicated to Nation3, and how to incorporate them into NationCred.
- Research how to use SourceCredās cred score to estimate the number of hours dedicated to Nation3 per NationCred identity.
Funding and Distribution
- Research sustainable options for funding the basic income, including sources outside of Nation3.
- Akin to the Effective Altruism Giving Pledge, would the tens of thousands of tradstateless digital nomads out there be interested in pledging 3% of their personal income to fund N3BI each month? If so, what would be their incentive for doing so?
- Jack Dorseyās #startsmall LLC?
- Research types of ERC-20 tokens that would work well as an income token, and how each type would affect the system as a whole.
- Gather learnings/insights from Proof of Humanityās UBI project.
Technical Specification
- Following the research listed above, refine a detailed spec on how N3BI should work, specifically in the distribution method and its governance.
Research Period
Q4 2022 (Mid-Oct ā Mid-Dec)
Research Labor
200-300 hours
Budget
8,600 $USDC
+ 8.6 $NATION
= 4,300 $USDC
+ 4.3 $NATION
per month
= 1,000 $USDC
+ 1 $NATION
per week
Research Workforce
@anastasiya, @yukiw, @aahna, @johnmark13, @TonyStark
Work tools:
- Dework Project for task management
- Clarity Wiki for research documentation.
- Coordinape Circle for reward management
- #-research-guild for Discord communication
- github.com/nation3/n3bi for spec/documentation