HAVAH Takes its First Steps Towards Decentralization

Greetings! This is HAVAH, the Next-Generation Interchain Platform.

Team HAVAH has been preparing for decentralization for about five months since the mainnet launch in January 2023. Seventeen validator teams have collaborated in HAVAH Interchain Infra Partners (from here on HIIP), and with these partners, we are ready to take the first steps towards decentralization.

Through this Medium post, we want to introduce HIIP and share how HAVAH is progressing towards the stages of decentralization.

HIIP: The First Step Towards Decentralization

HIIP, short for HAVAH Interchain Infra Partners, consists of 17 teams that ensure the safe operation of the HAVAH network by performing roles such as block verification and interchain network operation. The current 17 teams of HIIP consist of technical partners responsible for block creation and verification on the HAVAH mainnet and ecosystem partners who will explore future business collaborations.

Team HAVAH concluded the first HIIP recruitment at the end of the 1st quarter of 2023. As the project is in its early stages, HIIP was primarily structured with teams experienced in WEB3. In the future, it is planned to discuss validator collaboration with 1) global blockchain projects, 2) community builders, and 3) decentralized organizations such as DAOs.

Of course, team HAVAH ultimately aims for full decentralization. For this, the team plans to go through the following phases, explained below:

Decentralization Roadmap

1. Initial Development Phase:
   At the initial stage of the mainnet, various decisions which include technical development, need to be made quickly. Therefore, for initial stabilization, team HAVAH will lead the decision-making process. HIIP meanwhile, prepares for the block verification role in the HAVAH network and assists in some team decision-making.
2. Technical Decentralization Phase:
   All 17 HIIPs will fully perform the role of block validators and will have proposal rights for HAVAH. As key governance members of HAVAH, HIIP will act in favor of HAVAH’s long-term interests and actively participate in the HAVAH ecosystem.
3. Decentralized Decision-making Phase:
   HIIP will cease node validator operation, and a self-participation system will begin where any planet holder can become a validator of HAVAH. Those participating as validators have the right to suggest protocol changes or improvements and are granted on-chain voting rights to participate in the decision-making process.

HAVAH aims to have the governance process take place entirely on-chain. Proposals and votes will all be recorded on the blockchain in real time, and the results will be implemented after voting. After sufficient stabilization, HAVAH will gradually become fully decentralized. HAVAH asks for the active support and participation of its community.

The Role of HIIP

Fundamentally, HIIP assumes the role of creating and verifying blocks on the mainnet and also contributes to the stability of the interchain environment by operating multiple planets. Beyond its technical contributions to the network, HIIP has also been structured for the partners to also use their experience in WEB3 and create collaborations on various business ventures. As the HAVAH ecosystem grows in the future, a larger scale HIIP will be formed, allowing HAVAH to be used even more effectively.

Moving forward, HIIP and its ecosystem plans to explore cooperation in various businesses. HAVAH is creating its ecosystem largely divided into three areas: technology and infrastructure, NFT, and game-fi. HAVAH, through HIIP, plans to uncover and collaborate with teams that are actively interested in being involved in the aforementioned three areas of the WEB3.

Step by Step

The team believes that decentralization and building governance is a very important milestone in the blockchain ecosystem. HAVAH has taken the first step toward decentralization. After a long period of preparation on the veganet (testnet), the decentralized network will operate starting on June 13th.

With the growth of the interchain ecosystem with events such as the joining of projects in the ecosystem and of those wishing to use HAVAH’s interchain, the growth of the sustainable fund, and the expansion of HAVAH Friends IP, will lead to the need of multiple decision-making instances. The road to decentralization, starting with the cooperation with HIIP, then moving to an on-chain governance system in which all planet holders can participate, is the path team HAVAH is strongly following step-by-step.

Thank you.