Back to collectionEx Populus separates employee abstention from company delegation
Ryan published an Ex Populus announcement saying team members with allocated tokens would not participate in the Xai DAO formation vote, while voting power attached to company-owned tokens would be delegated to community members. These are different commitments: employee abstention removes their direct participation, whereas delegation changes who exercises the company's voting power. Community member leigh6185 questioned whether delegates would act independently or as instructed proxies; that question was not evidence that proxy control had occurred.
Ryan published an Ex Populus announcement saying team members with allocated tokens would not participate in the Xai DAO formation vote, while voting power attached to company-owned tokens would be delegated to community members. These are different commitments: employee abstention removes their direct participation, whereas delegation changes who exercises the company's voting power. Community member leigh6185 questioned whether delegates would act independently or as instructed proxies; that question was not evidence that proxy control had occurred.
Later, Diablo said the Safe technical issue had been resolved and that work on the proposal could proceed. He still made the voting announcement conditional on confirmation. Removing a technical dependency and opening a ballot are separate milestones, so this update did not itself establish that voting was available that evening.