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Delegation Program

Overview​

The Delegation Program allows governors to earn additional staking rewards.

This program acts as a framework for allocating INTO to active, engaged, and impactful governance participants.

0) TL;DR​

  • Tracks: Governance Delegates, Ecosystem Builders, Public Goods, Research & Security.
  • Pool size: 145M INTO (of 400M total supply).
  • Epoch: Quarterly. Rebalance per epoch using engagement, proposal voting, usage, and integration metrics.
  • Pre-launch: Initial delegation to all governors equally to bootstrap activity and excitement.
  • Transparency: Reports on each rebalance epoch.

1) Goals & Principles​

  1. Maximize governance participation: Reward governors who actively vote, propose, and engage with the community.
  2. Encourage ecosystem integrations: Incentivize integration with Intento Flows by supplying tools, RPC nodes, relayers, and Trustless Agents.
  3. Public goods & tooling: Fund infrastructure that supports the network (explorers, relayers, RPC, agents).
  4. Transparency: Deterministic scoring, clear metrics, and open dashboards.
  5. Initial excitement: Equal pre-launch delegations to governors to signal participation and engagement.

2) Pools & Default Split​

Total delegation budget: 145M INTO.

  • Governance Delegates — 50%
  • Ecosystem Builders Pool — 25%
  • Public Goods Pool — 15%
  • Research & Security Pool — 10%

3) Timeline​

  • Applications Open: 2025-10-21
  • Applications Close (Wave 0): 2025-12-01
  • Initial Allocations Posted: Start of Q1 2026
  • Epoch length: Quarterly; first rebalance in the first week of Q1 2026
  • Pre-launch Delegation: Equal split across all governors prior to Wave 0.

4) Track Details & Scoring​

4.1 Governance Delegates​

Eligibility

  • Public identity, active in proposal voting and community discussions.
  • Commitment to engage with Intento-related governance and ecosystem decisions.

Scoring (100 pts)

  • Voting Participation (40): % of proposals voted per epoch.
  • Proposal Engagement (30): Number, quality, and impact of proposals submitted.
  • Community Involvement (15): AMAs, forum engagement, office hours.

Mechanics

  • Base allocation per delegate A_base, plus score-weighted variable A_var = T * (score / Σscore).
  • Decay for inactivity: −20% if participation drops below 50% of previous epoch.
  • Rotation encouraged: max 2 consecutive terms without review.

4.2 Ecosystem Builders Pool​

Eligibility

  • Teams building integrations or tooling (flows, autocompounding templates, alerting, wallets, analytics).

Scoring (100 pts)

  • Execution & Usage (50): Features deployed, user metrics (TVL, volume, flows).
  • Integration Depth (25): Ecosystem coverage (chains, ICAs, ICQ, ICS).
  • Open Source & Tools (15): Repos, docs, example flows.
  • Alignment (10): Use of intent orchestration patterns.

4.3 Public Goods Pool​

Scope

  • RPC nodes, relayers, explorers, chain-indexers, educational content.

Scoring (100 pts)

  • Reliability (40): Uptime.
  • Usage & Adoption (30): Metrics of service usage.
  • Neutrality (10): Open access to services.

4.4 Research & Security Pool​

Scope

  • Audits, incident response, formal verification, economic security studies.

Scoring (100 pts)

  • Impact (50): Published advisories, mitigations.
  • Execution (30): Completed studies, contributions to ecosystem tooling.
  • Community Sharing (20): Documentation, workshops, reports.

5) Calculation Details​

  • We will publish scoring per epoch in the mainnet validator Discord channel.

7) Risk & Incident Playbook​

  • Inactivity: apply decay, redelegate to active governors.
  • Governance capture attempt: investigation; temporary cap reduction.
  • MEV or tooling abuse: warning → removal if unremedied.

8) Reporting & Transparency​

  • Dashboard: live stake distribution, score breakdown, epoch countdown.
  • Monthly report: allocations, changes, rationale, incidents.
  • Archive: immutable snapshots (IPFS/Ceramic) per epoch.

9) Application Forms​

Interested in joining the program? Fill out the official application form:
Intento Delegation Program Application

10) Defaults​

  • Epoch: quarterly
  • Decay for inactivity: −20%
  • Base allocations per pool configurable