The people running Stacks fund themselves with fresh token emissions — dilution, passed on quiet, low-turnout votes, paid for by every holder who wasn't in the room. We may already have the power to stop it. What's been missing is a way to find each other and move as one. This is that.
Rule changes on Stacks pass by stake-weighted vote — and recent votes have directed fresh token emissions to fund the people running the show. Turnout is low, insiders are organized, and the cost lands on every holder who wasn't in the room.
Most holders can vote on every rule change — straight from your own wallet, or passed through by providers like StackingDAO. A change needs ~80% yes to pass. A counted opposition holding just a fifth of the votes cast can block anything.
Nobody knows how many of us want a different direction, so we each lose alone. This site is the count: cryptographically verified, impossible to fake, and growing. When the next printer vote opens, we show up as one bloc.
One value. Every supporter signs it with their wallet — and everything else we want falls out of it on its own.
The protocol should pay exactly two parties, with money it never printed: stackers earn BTC through PoX, and miners earn the transaction fees users actually pay. That's the whole list. No emissions for development, maintenance, foundations, endowments, or anyone's salary — and yes, that includes the miner coinbase. Today, miners are paid mostly in freshly minted STX. We'd end that too. Zero new STX, ever, for anyone.
A chain that can print for itself will always find reasons to: budgets grow, insiders entrench, and every vote becomes a fight over who holds the printer instead of what's good for the network. The establishment isn't addicted to building on Stacks — it's addicted to living off it. And if the chain's real usage can't pay for its own security in fees, the printer was never revenue — it was a subsidy hiding the truth. Cut it off, and what remains is a fixed-supply asset secured by real demand: the lesson this chain was supposed to learn from Bitcoin all along.
If the work is worth doing, the users and builders who need it will pay for it willingly. If nobody will, the printer shouldn't have either.
With no emissions budget left to carve up, there's nothing worth deciding in private. Daylight becomes the default, not a demand.
When no one is paid to invent priorities, the only priorities left are the ones real users prove on-chain, every day.
● Members only — the count is for the counted
The tally — how many holders have signed, and how much STX stands behind the platform — unlocks once your wallet has signed it. Blocking a bad vote takes roughly 26.4M STX moving together; inside, you can watch our progress toward that line, live.
Two far-off lines mark where a bloc could stall the network (30%) or run it outright (70%). We don't need to get near those to win votes — they're just the outer edge of what organizing makes possible.
The count isn't a petition — it's leverage. Step one settles nearly every fight there is. The last resort exists so the establishment knows we're not bluffing.
Almost all of us can already vote. What the establishment counts on is that we do it scattered — or not at all. A rule change needs ~80% yes, so a counted bloc holding a fifth of the turnout kills the next printer vote on its own, and an organized majority writes what comes after. This settles almost every fight there is.
▸ If we're counted, coordinated, and still lose a fight that matters — the last resort goes on the table.
If the chain proves impossible to fix, we split off and run our own version of the network under rules that pay stackers and miners and no one else — the one value, enforced by exit. It divides the community in two; whichever side people and apps treat as real wins. We'd almost never do it. Being able to, credibly, is why everyone takes the count seriously.
▸ Reserved for network-defining changes, and only with a large, committed majority behind it.
You prove how much STX stands behind you by signing a short message with your wallet — like showing ID at the door. Nothing is spent, nothing moves, no transaction, no fees. Your weight is read straight from the chain, so the count can't be faked or padded.