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It requires a token, but I won’t do an ico. It doesn’t have finality (similar to bitcoin). Critically, it shouldn’t require hardforks or governance at the protocol layer.

Cool. When do you plan to tell us more about this idea, and when you plan to launch something? {not trying to push, but super curious what this will be about and when we can see the next level chain}

Peos + telos + ipfs + vig + hive with Hierarchical Randomized Governance and worker proposal NFTs and eosio 3.0 for disk bssed mira style ram.... for cheap ram and thus billions hundreds of billions of eosio main net accounts all immutable all on multiple chains all with block producers ON EACH OTHERS chains

I think you should check Nyzo, maybe this is what you want.
How the Nyzo network works https://nyzo.net/getting-started-04.html
No ASIC, No GPU, No stake .Running a ipv4 node to become a Nyzo verifier, and verify blocks.
And real DAO governance (verifier voting), not whale governance (more money more power).

This sounds similar to the proyect of @andrarchy https://www.koinos.io/

Is there any possibility that you would work together ?

Thank you Dan.