Make Kusama Chaotic Again

shawntabrizi
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:52:21 +0000
Ecosystem

I want to open this forum post as a place for coordination on efforts to bring life and vibes back to the Kusama ecosystem.

Facts

Kusama was one of the coolest things to be created in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Expect Chaos

Cypherpunk / Glitch Vibes: [ex1] [ex2] [ex3]

Pushing the Limits (validators, spammening, parachains, etc…)

Kusama plays a fundamental role in the security and safety of the Polkadot Network.

Making Kusama important and relevant for the world is good for Polkadot.

There are things Kusama can do that Polkadot cannot, both physically and spiritually.

Hypothesis

Kusama has died down recently:

Polkadot has been really stable recently, causing people to forget how important Kusama is.

Kusama lacks a fundamentally unique selling point and feature set.

Kusama lacks a fundamentally unique narrative and theme which is independent from Polkadot.

Potential Solution

Make Kusama Chaotic Again.

What do we mean by this?

Let’s make Kusama the number one home for the original Cypherpunk movement:

Privacy-focused

Fully and Truly Decentralized

Self-Sovereign

Cryptography Pioneers

Open, Public Communication

Anti-Censorship

Technological Transparency

Activist Mindset

Anonymity Valuing

DIY Ethos

Freedom-Preserving

How can we do this?

Bring ZK primitives to Kusama.

Support low-level host functions to execute ZK functions fast and efficiently.

Expose such functions through the upcoming Kusama Hub contracts platform.

Maybe a community seeded “Trusted Setup Ceremony”

Experiment with better / more resilient forms of on-chain randomness generation.

Create a home for Privacy.

Privacy Preserving Stablecoin: Kash

Privacy Creating Services (will remain unnamed)

Privacy Preserving Voting Systems

Post-Quantum Signatures and Experiments

Create a Kusama community manifesto and vision

Be the Web3 Cloud for the “Dark Renaissance”:

DarkFi

ZCash

Monero

Prediction Markets

True, unapologetic DEXs

P2P Markets

etc…

Enshrine the cypherpunk movement and spirit.

Describe how Kusama and Polkadot differ, yet are still important for one another.

Ensure that Kusama treasury allocates and funds projects in this nature.

What else? Comment in this thread.

Action Items

Such a future does not create itself. We must create alignment and a community of people who will steward this future forward.

Discussion: Are there enough people aligned within the Kusama community to this narrative?

Formation: Who is willing to step up to lead such efforts, and create groups for people to work together on this?

Adoption: Who can represent the Kusama technology stack to other like-minded projects and individuals who may want to participate?

Execution: How can we reclaim access to the Kusama treasury, and allocate funds for this specifically? Start with a bounty?

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