@shawntabrizi has been working on the Participation Lottery Pallet, originally presented here, for the past weeks. The original idea: a configurable, reoccurring lottery system that can be used to drive participation on the Kusama network, is now almost ready to be deployed.

A participation lottery can be used to drive forward the following behavioural changes to the network by attaching a lottery to a specific extrinsic:

• Have more users share their voice on important elections. (vote)
• Have users change/update their validator nominations on a regular schedule. (nominate)
• Have more users join Society or other similar social experiments (put_bid)
• Encourage brainstorming of ideas in future updates and changes (propose_bounty)
• Have more users (change their) backing of (candidate) council members (electionPhragmen,vote)

You can find the original write up for the idea here.

The PR can be found here.

Please leave your feedback, comments and questions on this post! And remember to vote on the poll to the right: should the pallet be deployed and tested on Kusama?