ICON's Contribution Proposal System (CPS) is a decentralized governance mechanism that is governed by ICON Network Validators, built to support developers and teams wanting to contribute to the ICON blockchain.
The CPS eliminates the necessity of a central authority in grant decision making processes and provides an opportunity for ICONists to pursue new initiatives and accrue governance rights within the network.
This Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) is one of the first steps towards the migration of the ICON Network into a fully operational DAO.
The CPS supports worthy projects through grants from the Contribution Proposal Fund (CPF), which grows through the daily accumulation of block rewards provided by ICON Network inflation.
- Applicant Flow - Description of the flow for the application process of a prospective grantee
- Application Templates - Templates for proposals and progress reports
- Deliverable guidelines - Guidelines for deliverables from CPS projects
- Funding Cycle Explanation - Explanation of the CPS cycles and when funds are distributed
- Introduction - An overview of the CPS and its purpose within the ICON ecosystem
- Priority Voting Explanation - An explanation of the "Priority Voting" mechanism performed by Validators every Voting Period
- Project Activity Flow States - A glossary of the multiple project states that occur within the CPS
- Smart Contract Methods - Documentation of all the smart contract methods within the CPS SCOREs
- Tutorials - Tutorials for using the CPS
- Voter Assessment Framework - Framework for Validators assessing prospective projects
- Voter Flow - Description of the voting process flow for participating validators