Primal Governance and Development

Primal is already a significantly decentralised 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. Primal validators are entrusted with deciding whether to adopt Primal improvement proposals (PIPs). Currently, every validator has one vote regardless of their share of the overall network stake but this is likely to change soon.

2) Primal 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 Primal treasury that mostly consists of the undistributed genesis PRM supply (see the subsection "PRM Supply and Current Distribution") are currently mostly managed by a foundation. For Primal, this role is played by Gibraltar-incorporated company Primal Limited.

Primal Foundation employs the Primal project team.

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 communities on Primal. It also works on boosting the adoption of the network through improving the Primal tech stack, securing new partnerships and integrations, onboarding ecosystem projects and marketing the platform within the crypto space and beyond.

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

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