XCapital Governance and Development

XCapital is already a significantly decentralized platform and plans are in motion to achieve full community control over it in the future. Its governance is currently split among the following actors:

1) Network Validators. XCapital validators are entrusted with deciding whether to adopt XCapital improvement proposals (FIPs). Currently, every validator has one vote regardless of their share of the overall network stake but this is likely to change soon.

2) XCapital Foundation and the project team. Like most public blockchain projects at the initial stage of development, the development of the core network protocol and the XCapital treasury that mostly consists of the undistributed genesis XCBC supply (see the subsection "XCBC Supply and Current Distribution") are currently mostly managed by a foundation. For XCapital, this role is played by Gibraltar-incorporated company XCapital Limited.

XCapital Foundation employs the XCapital project team whose members' profiles can be found here.

The project team implements network protocol updates adopted by the validators, other protocol changes that do not require validator votes, maintains the full node software. It develops the mobile-centric infrastructure for creating and managing token communities on XCapital. It also works on boosting the adoption of the network through improving the XCapital tech stack, securing new partnerships and integrations, onboarding ecosystem projects and marketing the platform within the crypto space and beyond.

That said, since XCapital is a decentralized public blockchain platform, no permission of the project team is required for anyone who wishes to integrate with or develop on top of XCapital, including the development of the network and node software.

3) XCapital Assembly. See the Assembly page for more details.