EOS Developer Acknowledges Claims of 'Collusion' and 'Mutual Voting' Between Nodes

In the statement, Blumer states that the company is "Aware of some unverified claims regarding irregular block producer voting, and the subsequent denials of those claims."

Without providing any details on the "Denials" of allegations, Blumer stated that EOS will continue to "Ensure a free and democratic election process and vote with other holders to reinforce the integrity of this process."

The spreadsheet contained four tables with "Node mutual voting table" and "Node income statement" among them.

As per Eosone, this could mean that main EOS nodes, including Chinese crypto exchange Huobi, were involved in mutual voting along with pay-offs.

Per the tweet, Huobi voted for 20 other BPs, and 16 of them voted back for Huobi.

A list of EOS BPs allegedly involved in mutual voting.

Per the above table, Huobi voted for three other BPs in exchange for significant pay-offs.

The Twitter user further linked the alleged mutual voting with the recent promotion of Huobi Pool Token which shared tokens with users in exchange for locking their EOS on Huobi.

"No Member shall offer nor accept anything of value in exchange for a vote of any type, nor shall any Member unduly influence the vote of another."

"As a followup, *this* is why I do not believe in coinholder-voted on-chain treasuries. Any chain where coinholder-voted on-chain issuance is used to supposedly fund public goods can easily collapse into this kind of 'I vote for your crappy project, you vote for mine' equilibrium."