LONDON (Bywire News) - A week is a long time in politics so they say and it’s an absolute eternity in EOS. As the Chief Delegates met for their most recent meeting they were digesting the news that Yves La Rose had announced an intention to look at legal action against B1. It was, then, another quiet day in the world of EOS. 

First, though it was their weekly updates. As a reminder the current list of delegates are: 

• Aaron Cox: Co-Founder Greymass.
• Chris Barnes: 1st Eden Mock Election winner.
• Jesse Jaffe: EOS Bees Queen.
• John Williamson: Founder Violet Garden.
• Brandon Lovejoy: Multimedia Creator.
• Randall Roland: Founder of EOS Support

Randall Roland

Roland has been working on the Mandel launch, raising awareness of it and reaching out to businesses to see how we can make our presence felt. 

He has started an initiative called the EOS Support Squad which attracts people who have customer service experience but may not know much about EOS. These members can join, come to meetings, learn EOS and help them improve their offering to users. 

Meanwhile, they have created bylaws for the organisation so that every individual knows their role and they continue to build their offering. 

John Williamson

He has been doing more work with Fractally and building what looks to be an exciting and highly talented team. He promises some ‘pretty cool stuff’ on its way soon. 

Aaron Cox

As has been the case for some time now his work has been taken up by the white papers. One of them is being passed on for translation. On the wallet side, he says he’s found some exciting ways to work in some of the onboarding technology they have been working on into future proposals. There is, he says, a lot of overlap with some of the other projects which are happening.  

Brandan Lovejoy 

Still going hard with the ENF, getting grant videos in production and out as fast as possible. He is trying to bring the Core+ blue paper across the finish line which Aaron has delivered.

Other than that, he has been keeping his ear to the ground, tracking all the conversations happening in EOS.

Jesse Jaffe 

The EOS Bees January report has been released which has documented their new approach to rewarding Bees. The new model accounts for every EOS that was spent and what it’s been spent on. Feedback has been very positive and, he believes it has validated that was the right move to make.  

He also had an update on the work they are doing with their swarms in which all Bees will retweet a certain tweet to amplify positive coverage on social media. This is useful when trying to combat misinformation or draw attention to a particular issue.

Getting the incentive right has been difficult because a single retweet is a low-value task, so it can be difficult to measure how much people should be rewarded for it. 

Chris Barnes

In terms of transparency work, he is working with EOS Authority. They have tools on how vote distribution works on EOS. One of the tools is a visual map showing block producers and larger voting pools. They have updated that to show the vote distribution quarterly since launch. That allows them to see clearly how vote distribution has changed over time. 

Interviews 

One of the problems EOS faces is the wider public perception of the network. The history of B1 hangs heavily over the network and many people still see the current heads of EOS as being more or less indistinguishable from the large corporate entity which had soured its reputation. 

By giving interviews they can humanise themselves and the network and show that EOS is now a very different place under very different management. 

Litigation against b1

Beyond the updates, there was one very pressing topic to be addressed: the possibility of litigation between the EOS Network Foundation and B1. Anger at the perceived failings of B1 has rumbled on and many would like to see the community pursue the company which created it see ‘justice done’. 

For Chris Barnes, the nature of the announcement was a little strange. 

“It seems pretty high level, like an announcement of an announcement. It seems like a good headline. I don’t know why you’d warn someone you’re about to litigate against them,” he said. “Maybe it’s a warning, and leading to a settlement of sorts… I don’t quite get the strategy on this, but I’m sure there’s more to it than meets the eye. At a minimum, it’s great drama.”

Aaron Cox, meanwhile, was curious and generally supportive, as long as it doesn’t distract from the gains they have already made. 

“As long as we’re not stopping the forward momentum, we have it’s worth exploring,” he said. “There’s something there. I don’t know what it is. The whole way it went down, you couldn’t make this up.”

He also added that one possible side benefit could be a change in the perception of EOS. 

“Go into Reddit and anytime EOS is mentioned and all they think it is, they think that we are the people that got 4bn and scammed people of a bunch of money,” he explained. “There’s a huge narrative out there that’s wrong about what EOS is and what happened and if anything comes out of this maybe it will at least turn some heads and people will go ‘maybe this situation is different than I thought it was.”

Research about legal entity 

Finally, they have further updates on the possible options they have for legal entities. Having consulted the ENF lawyers they have been given these options:

• For-profit
• Not for profit
• A trust 
• Partnership

They concluded based on the foregoing their initial recommendation is that Eden should form a not for profit corporation. Unlike trusts and partnerships, not for profits are legal persons so they can hold assets and pursue contracts. 

While they share admin burdens such as managing directors, they do not require the distribution of shares among shareholders. They are the only entity discussed which has an exemption from Canadian income tax. 

(Writing by Tom Cropper, editing by Klaudia Fior)