How the vote works
At voting.l2protocol.com the community decides which crypto project gets its own L2 Protocol chain. Projects put themselves forward, everyone votes, and the leaderboard shows where things stand.
It is one of the three ways a project qualifies. The other two are described in Get your chain.
What the winner gets
Not a prize in coins. A full rollout of the same infrastructure every other L2 Protocol chain runs on:
- its own EVM chain, with a bridge back to the chain the project lives on today
- a block explorer
- staking and a validator set
- on-chain governance
That is a real chain with real smart contract support, for a project that did not have one.
One free vote per wallet, every day
Your wallet is your identity here. There is no account to create, no email address and no password.
Every wallet gets one vote per day. The day runs on UTC, so everyone's vote resets at the same moment worldwide, which is midnight UTC rather than midnight where you happen to be.
Voting is free in the fullest sense: you sign a short message rather than sending a transaction, so there is no fee, nothing leaves your wallet, and the site never gains any access to it. Cast your vote shows exactly what you are signing.
The three steps
Connect your wallet. That is the whole sign-up.
Vote for a project. Press Vote on the leaderboard or on a project's own page and approve the signature request.
Watch the leaderboard. It updates as votes come in, from everyone, live.
Why a signature and not a click
A plain click can be repeated by anyone with a script. A signature can only be produced by the wallet it belongs to, so a vote can be traced to a wallet without anyone being able to cast it on that wallet's behalf.
Signing a message is not a transaction. It cannot move coins, it cannot approve anything and it costs nothing. Your wallet will say as much when it asks.
What stops the vote being gamed
Three things sit between the leaderboard and someone trying to stuff it, and you may run into them even when voting honestly.
One vote per wallet per day, counted on the wallet address and on the browser.
A limit per network. Only a few votes are accepted from the same internet connection each day, so a household or an office can hit it even though everyone is voting in good faith.
No VPNs or datacenter connections. Voting through a VPN or a server is refused, because that is how vote farms hide.
When a vote will not go through explains what each refusal looks like and what to do about it.
Voting power later on
Every vote currently counts the same. A future token will let holders boost their voting power, and the site says so on the front page. Until then, every wallet weighs exactly as much as every other.