The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is a neutral third-party role designed to evaluate WAX Guild Candidates' contribution to the ecosystem and provide ongoing transparency for the community. The office is designed as a committee with 3 inspector generals who will standardize WAX Guild evaluations, and properly recognise those WAX Guilds making valuable contributions to the WAX ecosystem.
Guilds that failed the previous evaluation and don't submit an update will not be reviewed, marked as Failed Core and moved to Retired Guilds table.
Green text represents additions / modifications.
Red text with strikethrough represents removals.
Orange text represents proposed changes that have not reached consensus yet.
Minimum required points for standby position: 110 points
Guilds will be evaluated on a regular basis on the criteria below. The committee will publish the cutoff date for rating Guilds each evaluation cycle. Guilds will submit their update and appeals to Github in plain text with links to data/screenshots. Confidential information can be submitted via email, but requires to be noted in the public update. Publishing an update with non-confidential information is mandatory if you want the OIG to evaluate your confidential sections. Rating appeals are to be provided as Github issues.
The criteria will consist of line items in a range of categories with various point ranges. The committee believes this will make it easier to evaluate Guilds fairly.
The OIG does however have to rely on the reported information to be accurate. Points credited under false pretense due to wrong information being submitted or important changes not being communicated may result in a penalty. Submission of inaccurate information during reports or appeals where the OIG has to assume the goal is to scrounge evaluation scores may also result in a penalty. This includes, but does not conclude with: The misrepresentation of development efforts, development progress, purported collaborations or partnerships, knowingly boasting the significance of a products based on false claims, fakery of infrastructure availability or performance.
If no time range is specified, the last evaluation time frame is applied, starting with the last evaluation report release, ending with the submission cut off date.
The pre-evaluation and minimum requirements must be fulfilled to be considered for a rating. Satisfied criteria will improve a Guild's score on the report.
Guilds, that failed an evaluation based on minimum requirements, are granted the opportunity to apply for reinstatement. This can only be done once within an evaluation period, after addressing all outstanding issues and providing a stable service for 7 days. Guilds that have been in a Top 21 position by score during the previous evaluation, that (a) fail minimum requirements but (b) achieve the required minimum score and (c) have their issues addressed before the end of the appeal period, will instead of failing be demoted to a standby position.
While active producers can claim their pay daily based on produced blocks, Guilds in standby positions are paid on a monthly basis. To be eligible for payments, Guilds need to pass the minimum requirements of each month, verifying they offered a service over the paid evaluation period. Severly failing to uphold minimum requirements, or being unregistered, for a prolonged time over an evaluation period while otherwise still passing minimum requirements, can result in a proportionate share of the standby rewards getting deducted. This also applies to reinstatement periods when minimum requirements have not been met towards the end of an evaluation period. Reinstatements are always evaluated based on testnet performance. For this timeframe Guilds are considered unregistered from WAX mainnet, no matter if they actually are or not.