What is the NEAR Digital Collective?

The NEAR Digital Collective (NDC) is an ambitious project that brings together users, projects, stakeholders and partners of the NEAR ecosystem to create a radically new way of governing itself.

By creating a framework that allows any member of the network to have a say in how NEAR is run, the NDC’s goal is to combine transparency, collective decision making, evolving governance models, and self-determination in a completely new way.

The NDC plans on doing this by helping to create the NEAR Constitution, a unifying document that enshrines the ideas of self-governance and decentralization into the core of how the NEAR ecosystem works.

How does it do that?

The NDC is helping develop a system of governance. Once in place, it will allow people to vote on a wide variety of issues, elect members to different governing councils, and even make amendments to the constitution itself.

The essence of the NDC brings this radical framework to life, and allows the community to then engage and take part in actively shaping the future of NEAR.

In its current stage, the NDC is working on a governance structure that includes the following sections:

• Voting Body — This is every active near account, as qualified by the governance framework

• 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭: A group of experienced community members appointed by members of the ecosystem to represent them during votes and key decisions.

• 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬: Advisors appointed to help shape the direction of the House of Merit.

• 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: members of the community appointed to ensure checks and balances, are in place and upheld.

• Community Treasury — Members of the House of Merit with support from the Council of Advisors help facilitate voting on how community funds are allocated.

To read more about NDC, visit this link.