An independent Kusama on a reduced JAM, keeping its validators
Supporting this proposal means KSM holders want an independent Kusama, keeping its own validators on a reduced JAM, to be scoped, priced and specified in the open, and compared with JAM Prime before Kusama's validators are retired. It continues #573, which passed on 21 August 2025.
It asks for no funds, no DOT and nothing from the Kusama Vision fund. It sits beside #671, #672, #673 and #674 so that a voter who wants Kusama to keep its validators has a line to vote for. You can support this and any of the four. If both pass, the comparison comes first.
The full resolution is the proposal itself, shown below.
References
- Forum post
- Full paper
- Come to the Monday call, 26 October, 15:00 UTC, given to this question
Proposed by Birdbrain (People Chain identity Birdbrain), a collective on Kreivo. Decent Partners supports Birdbrain. Interests in full are in the paper.
Comments (5)
Regarding the decision deposit we had no prior notice that the other four were going on chain - our KSM was locked and since the Wish for Change track executes no code and is just for signalling it was preferable to have the 5 choices run in parallel. Adding a delay of a day or two added unnecessary effort - especially since the JAM Prime proposals studiously ignore a prior agreed Kusama WFC, so clearly optics don't matter that much.
@Birdbrain thanks for the answer. Well technically Emiel's 2nd paper forum post did announce a WFC direction after the 4 week discussion period they proposed, but regardless, just curious, do you or anyone from the birdbrain community plan on placing the DD?
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Voting Period
Decision Period
17 / 28 days
Confirmation Period
0 / 1 days
I do appreciate the intention of this counterproposal, as well as laying out a strategy, step by step, and a proposal, for example, to price the cost of the security from at least 11 different validators. This would make sense, at least theoretically.
However, I'm voting NAY because although I like the idea of an independent Kusama, I have serious concerns as to who would actually be the team of validators and technical profiles who would maintain the network.
Additionally, as of now, this referendum does not have a Decision Deposit placed.