Planetary Citizenship

## OVERVIEW

Upon signing the Member Terms and completing the conversion of a minimum of 1 TLM to a planet’s governance token, an Explorer is deemed to be a citizen of that planet. It is worth noting that Explorers are not limited to citizenship of a single planet, and can stake TLM to all planets to receive both governance tokens and citizen status.

As Citizens, Explorers will be able to see their “Citizen Badge” added to the Planet and Governance Menu along with their Planetary Tokens, with the choice to convert more TLM or decide to convert the Planetary Token back to TLM. Converting TLM to and from a particular planetary token is immediate (i.e. there is no cooldown for switching between the two).

Explorers who have not converted any of their TLM to a specific planetary token, will get an overlay message telling them they are not a DAO citizen if they attempt to engage in any Planetary DAO activities.

## VIEWING CANDIDATES

Once an Explorer has gained Citizenship on a particular planet, they are provided with two votes, distributable to their preferred Custodian candidates via the Candidates page, which is accessed by clicking the View Candidates button in the right-hand Governance menu on the Planetary Details page.

**1) Votes Used**

* This tells a Citizen whether they have used both of their votes or not.

**2) Candidate Name**

* An overview of the names of the top Candidates.

**3) Candidate Voting Power**

* The amount of Vote Power apportioned by Citizens to a particular Candidate. Currently, a citizen’s total Vote Power is added to each Candidate’s Vote Power total.

**4) Total Votes**

* The number of Citizens who have voted for a particular Candidate.

**5) Vote Decay**

* A time-weighted average of all the voters for a Candidate. For example:

*If one candidate has a total of 100,000 token votes cast for them but all those votes were 60 days ago, then the date would show 60 days. If, however, another Citizen voted with another 100,000 token votes today, then the vote date would be shifted towards today based on their share of the total vote weight. This would give rise to the following calculations:*

*First: 100,000 (today’s token votes) / 200,000 (total token votes) = 0.5 (difference)*

*Then: 60 (days since initial token votes were cast) x 0.5 (previous total)  = 30*

*Finally: 60 (days since initial token votes were cast) - 30 (previous total) = 30*

*This would mean that the date for AVF would move from 60 days to 30 days.*

**6) Vote checkbox**

* Which Candidates a Citizen has voted for.

*(NOTE: the Candidates whom a Citizen has voted for will always appear at the top of the Candidate list regardless of the sorting format chosen)*

## VOTING FOR CANDIDATES

Citizens of a Planet are provided with two votes to use in support of their preferred Custodian Candidates. Clicking on a specific Candidate on the View Candidates page alters the layout and brings up pertinent information for that particular Candidate.

**1) Candidate Vote State**

* This indicates whether you have voted for the Candidate you’re viewing or not, and this button has several different states.
	+ + Add Your Vote - you have not yet voted for this Candidate.
	+ Vote Added - you have voted for this Candidate, but not signed off the vote.
	+ Vote Signed - you have added your vote for a Candidate and also signed it.

**2) Remove Vote**

* This option becomes available once you have voted for a particular Candidate.

* Clicking the Remove Vote button brings up an overlay providing the option to withdraw your vote from one or both Candidates.

**3) State of Citizen’s Votes**

* This button provides an at-a-glance indication of whether a Citizen has used and signed both votes, and has several states.
	+ The Citizen has not used either of their votes yet.
	+ Both votes have been applied to Candidates, but have yet to be signed. Clicking the button in this state triggers an overlay (pictured below) providing the option to sign the votes for the chosen Candidates.
	+ Both votes have been applied to Candidates and signed.

**4) Add/Remove Voting Power**

* Voting power is an important factor in Custodial processes, and Citizens can add to their Voting Power by staking planetary tokens. When staking planetary tokens, Citizens can choose the “release period” for the unstaking process, which is a measure of how long it will take after unstaking, for the tokens to complete their conversion back to standard planetary tokens.
	+ Citizens can choose a release period of up to 90 day, with the length of the release time chosen modifying the total vote power gained relative to the number of planetary tokens staked. The maximum modifier - gained by choosing the 90 day release period - is 4x the amount of Tokens staked. So for example, a Citizen staking 1,000 Tokens for 90 days will gain 4,000 vote power.
		- *NOTE: If a Citizen opts to unstake all or a portion of their tokens they will lose the associated amount of vote power.*

* Clicking the Add Vote Power button activates an overlay that allows the Citizen to add Power by staking some (or all) of their current pool of Planetary tokens, displaying how much Voting Power they will receive in exchange for the number of tokens to be staked. This overlay also shows the unstake period for these tokens (how long it takes for the tokens to be unstaked once the unstake option is activated).

* If a Citizen wishes to stake more tokens, then the minimum release period that they can choose is their current chosen release period +1 day. In the example image below a 21 day release period has been chosen, meaning staking more tokens would require the citizen to choose a 22 day release period.

* Clicking the Remove Vote Power button activates an overlay allowing a Citizen to unstake their staked planetary tokens, the number of days until the tokens complete the unstaking process, and the date & time at which that process will be completed.

**5) Created Proposals**

* If a Candidate currently is, or has previously been a Custodian, then this section will contain any of the Proposals that they have created during their active Custodianship. This can serve as important insight for Citizens when deciding whether to continue voting for an incumbent Custodian, or a Candidate with previous Custodial experience.