Dear community,

This is a resubmission of a referendum to adjust the collators for Kusama Asset Hub. It was previously submitted as referendum 660 but I mistakenly used the same preimage for the adjustment of invulnerables on Kusama Bridge Hub.

I've since updated the preimage and we can see it is a direct submission instead of and XCM call.

My apologies.

Original text follows.

This referendum seeks to adjust the invulnerable collator set of Kusama Asset Hub.

The main objective is to make the invulnerable set better aligned with the risk profile and importance of the respective System Chain, while also keeping the assignment process efficient and consistent across the programme.

The curators also considered the historical assignment of slots across the System Chains. Where possible, the revised assignments favour operators with longer tenure and a demonstrated record of providing reliable service. At the same time, the changes are intended to help even the field for operators who have shown capability and interest in supporting additional System Chains.

Finally, this referendum adjusts the number of permissionless collator slots to ensure that permissionless collators do not outweigh the intended invulnerable set.

To support this, the curators applied a tiering model where each System Chain is categorised from Tier 1 to Tier 3, based on its perceived importance and risk profile. Under this model, Kusama Asset Hub is categorised as a Tier-1 chain, with 8 funded community invulnerable collators.

For Kusama Asset Hub, the proposed configuration is:

• Tier: Tier 1
• Community-funded invulnerable collators: 8
• Permissionless collator slots: 4

This referendum performs the following changes.

Collators being added

• MegaTron / Eric — FPJeeKkKhDE8uyid4MKvTj7KJNVczkobiDsxuMmrjPA4Wec
• DPSTK / Dapestake — FCt4UxC6BfP6769winMs2YR6FdyL4dLcaw9qowekFySG3J2

Collators being removed

• Previous invulnerable — CbLdvHtKPVr1bvt7poBKwJsQUokfjC4kqoMkjeyCDtFs8wQ
• Previous invulnerable — E5G5qLNBF7nwhemokqNrNwUCQ7oHrLsBVjSc7XhTdRq8672
• Previous invulnerable — J11Rp4mjz3vRb2DL51HqRGRjhuEQRyXgtuFskebXb8zMZ9s

Collators retained

The following community invulnerables are already in place and remain part of the final Asset Hub set:

• Polkadotters / pmensik — EPGHRDFaBbQz4uF8DgnuScxYp4rvvtpL5MTed7VvGprNQmm
• Iceberg Nodes — Eicei1RVHvqHBPJAY2fZpLy2KtCMjY7Kwjo3svjmGLH7FmT
• Stakeworld — Et9M3rrA7H2kHQEGRXHxufcp9HTEmFirMWtKHvjoJ85r1C9
• Turboflakes — H1tAQMm3eizGcmpAhL9aA9gR844kZpQfkU7pkmMiLx9jSzE
• LuckyFriday — HPUEzi4v3YJmhBfSbcGEFFiNKPAGVnGkfDiUzBNTR7j1CxT
• SIK / crifferent — HWyLYmpW68JGJYoVJcot6JQ1CJbtUQeTdxfY1kUTsvGCB1r

Final community invulnerable set

• MegaTron / Eric — FPJeeKkKhDE8uyid4MKvTj7KJNVczkobiDsxuMmrjPA4Wec
• Polkadotters / pmensik — EPGHRDFaBbQz4uF8DgnuScxYp4rvvtpL5MTed7VvGprNQmm
• Iceberg Nodes — Eicei1RVHvqHBPJAY2fZpLy2KtCMjY7Kwjo3svjmGLH7FmT
• Stakeworld — Et9M3rrA7H2kHQEGRXHxufcp9HTEmFirMWtKHvjoJ85r1C9
• Turboflakes — H1tAQMm3eizGcmpAhL9aA9gR844kZpQfkU7pkmMiLx9jSzE
• LuckyFriday — HPUEzi4v3YJmhBfSbcGEFFiNKPAGVnGkfDiUzBNTR7j1CxT
• SIK / crifferent — HWyLYmpW68JGJYoVJcot6JQ1CJbtUQeTdxfY1kUTsvGCB1r
• DPSTK / Dapestake — FCt4UxC6BfP6769winMs2YR6FdyL4dLcaw9qowekFySG3J2

Best Regards,
Will | Paradox | ParaNodes.io