# A Kusama Forum - Place for longform debate and healthy discussion

**URL:** https://forum.polkadot.network/t/a-kusama-forum-place-for-longform-debate-and-healthy-discussion/2999
**Category:** Suggestions
**Tags:** kusama
**Created:** [May 31, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/a-kusama-forum-place-for-longform-debate-and-healthy-discussion/2999 "2023-05-31T06:39:14Z")
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### Author: ![rich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/rich/32/159_2.png) [@rich](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/rich)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/a-kusama-forum-place-for-longform-debate-and-healthy-discussion/2999/35 "2023-06-21T11:38:27Z")

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An economic argument as to why the Kusama ecosystem will move inevitably towards greater independence from Polkadot - economically, culturally and technically.

> [@Quadratic Voting for Polkadot Governance](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/quadratic-voting-for-polkadot-governance/3071/2):
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> the only voting system that makes sense is one which incentivizes token holders to make decisions which are beneficial to making their token value grow.

- To access the treasury, more and more projects are shifting to ‘common good’ strategies where DOT is the primary fee token.

- Teams without traction on Kusama are moving to Polkadot in the hope of getting traction.

- Kusama and Polkadot parachains are diversifying, rather than standardising.

Kusama token holders will naturally move towards a focus on using KSM as a fee token / core to a parachain / product’s economic system.

This clearly positions the relative strategies of KSM and DOT holders as independent cultures that will progressively separate.

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