# SCF #26 NQG Voting Report

*BlockScience, 03 May 2024*

**Past Reports: [SCF#25](/C_3GSr0ZRCqA4bPvji2C5Q), [SCF#24](/Fbk3oyc5Q-yjReLKyfsR8A), [SCF#23](/krAfFrk2RQSFSegOkHLsSg), [SCF#22](/szqrblG-R5OS4U4SzyR8Uw)**

## Introduction

In 2023, the Stellar Community Fund (SCF) and BlockScience (BSci) [collaborated](https://blog.block.science/introducing-neural-quorum-governance/) on [ideating](https://blog.block.science/the-story-behind-neural-quorum-governance/) and implementing a novel governance mechanism, titled Neural Quorum Governance. Following this initial phase, we are now monitoring and evaluating this mechanism through per-round reports. This allows the community to better inform themselves about the dynamics and effects of this voting mechanism, informing discussions on changes and adaptations.

## Report Summary

On this report, we showcase key statistics along with a breakdown over the votes and the computed power for each project submission.

We also discuss Quorum Delegation, which seems to most affect middle- to lower-tier projects when ranked by `Yes`/`No` votes.

This [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Of5spqhwhFd_0czZ8yfOmRWdikKfZTofabcpFAAdPz4/edit#gid=1395196699) allows you to check the delegatee votes and the quorum delegation result. It allows sorting for any `delegating user: submission` combination.

## Results

### Summary Statistics

During SCF #26, 19 submissions received 453 direct votes, while 318 were delegated. The direct votes can be split into 326 (72%) `Yes` and 127 (28%) `No` votes.

A total of 41 unique voters participated. Out of these, 29 voters chose to delegate their vote for at least one project

### Votes per Project

In this section, we present the vote and voting power breakdown across project submissions.

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*Fig [VotesPerSubmissions]: Vote Types for each submission.*


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*Fig [PowerPerSubmissions]: Assigned vote power per project. Projects with negative voting power are those with more `No` than `Yes` voting power was received.*


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### Voting Power Outcomes

This section explores some of the results associated with the NQG-computed power itself.

An analysis that we make is to compare the power results against a simulated 1-person-1-vote scenario. We can observe that the project order is mainly preserved.

*Table [ResultVs1P1V]: Comparison of the project submission rankings between the results and a `what-if` scenario in which each vote would have been assigned as either +1 or -1 (rather than assigning individual voting power).*


### Delegation Outcomes

A total of 318 delegations were made for quorums to decide on a project vote. Of those, 259 (81%) were resolved as `Abstain` votes, 52 (16%) were determined as `Yes` and 7 (2%) were determined as `No.` The Delegatee Votes and the Quorum Delegation result can be checked with this [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Of5spqhwhFd_0czZ8yfOmRWdikKfZTofabcpFAAdPz4/edit#gid=485837436), which allows sorting for any `delegating user` and `submission` combination. We choose to be transparent on the delegates set so that the community can best evaluate the results as we're in the earliest stages of the NQG implementation.

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*Table [NQGvsNG]: Comparison between the submission rankings for two scenarios: one in which NQG is activated as usual and another one in which all Delegations are mapped to Abstain.*


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*Fig: Screenshot for Quorum Delegation Results*

*User public keys are blacked out to reduce deanonymization of delegation and voting behavior.*


### Neural Quorum Governance Outcomes

#### Power Across Projects

On the below image, we plot the Total Voting Power accumulated by each submission under distinct simulation scenarios as well as the `result` column which implements the actual data.



## Developments between SCF#26 and SCF#25

- Parametric changes on Quorum Delegation with the goal to increase delegate vote resolution. In particular:
- Minimum Quorum Threshold was changed from `5` to `3`. This should decrease the `Abstain` outcomes.
- Minimum Candidate Set for Quorum Formation changed from `5` to `8`. This will increase the probability of having actively voting users as part of the quorum.
- Maximum Candidate Set for Quorum Formation changed from `10` to `15`
- Ideation work on creating activity-based Neurons