...
Hyperledger will receive or direct 20% of the proceeds. This pool will be a directed donation towards Hyperledger Besu mainnet work paying for items including but not limited to:
- Payment of services consumed by the Hyperledger Besu project, such as
- Continuous Integration,
- Cloud Hosting fees for development (i.e. testnet nodes)
- source code hosting,
- any other such services directly related to development of mainnet capabilities in Hyperledger Besu
- Note: These costs are separate from any incurred by ConsenSys.
- Sending maintainers to speak at and promote Hyperledger Besu at Hyperledger events (such as the Global Forum and Members Summit) and Ethereum Foundation events (such as DevCon and AllCoreDevs meetings)
- Posting Bounties for work on Hyperledger Besu mainnet or mainnet related work
- Spending that would directly promote interoperability with Besu Mainnet functionality
- Other spending that would directly promote and improve Hyperledger Besu
...
Similarly, withdrawals received to HLF can decide on liquidation practices separately. ConsenSys will not have a say in how HLF liquidates its validators, even if the supermajority of maintainers are employed by ConsenSys.
Exhibit A
Vesting Period | ConsenSys (CS) Maintainers | Non-CS HLF Maintainers | Validator Rewards & Transaction Fee Share | Withdrawal Credential Share |
1 | 8 | 2 | 80% CS / 20 % HLF * | 80% CS / 20% HLF |
2 | 8 | 4 | 66% CS / 34% HLF * | 72% CS / 28% HLF |
3 | 8 | 2 | 80% CS / 20 % HLF * | 75% CS / 25% HLF |