DFINITY Foundation

Wenzel

ICDevs.org

CryptoIsGood

Anvil

ICPL.app

ysyms

The Accumulators’ Neuron

RawTech Venture

Paul Young

ICPMANUAL

8YearGangDAO

Isaac Valadez

Krzysztof Żelazko

Nicolas.ic

Smaug’s Neuron for Retail Investors

ICLight.io

Synapse (see neuron merger plan with the Wenzel known neuron)

Taggr Network

CodeGov.org

Sonic AMM

Rakeoff.io

OpenChat

ELNA AI

GEEKFACTORY

ICP Hub México

ICP Hub Poland

Jerry Banfield

WaterNeuron

ICP Hub Bulgaria

Gold DAO

NeuronPool

LORIMER ♾️ 🐶

B3Pay

ZenithCode

Aviate Labs

D-QUORUM

Yuku AI

CO.DELTA △

DragginCorp

Gwojda

Thyassa

🌮 TACO DAO Neuron

Ωmega-reject

Ωmega-vote

αlpha-vote

Cybersecurity

cyberowl

Dexter Caff/acc

Cosmicrafts

$STACK

John Wiegley

Improves transparency, strengthens governance incentives, and supports the long-term evolution of the NNS.

The [latest proposal to upgrade the NNS Dapp canister](https://dashboard.internetcomputer.org/proposal/139402) has triggered a [wave of negative feedback](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/59834) regarding **how [DFINITY Foundation](https://dfinity.org) (according to several forum users) "makes decisions behind closed doors"**, specifically about the order in which **Known Neurons** are displayed to users of the [ICP Dashboard](https://ic0.app) & [NNS Dapp](https://nns.ic0.app). To address these concerns, I would like to propose that **Known Neurons be listed by their Voting Power**.

This approach offers several important benefits:

1. **Transparency for ICP community** - Displaying **Known Neurons** in descending order of **Voting Power** helps users quickly understand how the *most influential* neurons vote. These neurons have the most at stake (both to gain and to lose) when *critical decisions* about ICP are made.
2. **Better alignment with governance incentives** - Listing by **Voting Power** highlights the behavior of neurons that *actively participate* and *carry significant responsibility* in shaping the protocol's direction.
3. **Long-term sustainability of NNS governance** - In the long run, if large stakers stop actively voting, their `deciding_voting_power` naturally decays toward `0`. As a result, they will gradually move down the `list_known_neurons`, making space for a “next generation” of *highly engaged* participants.

- This ensures that **active governance participation, rather than just large historical stakes**, determines *visibility* and *influence*.
- This eliminates the **need to remove inactive Known Neurons** - a *potentially controversial process,* that would require the *explicit consent* of the neuron’s `controller` or its violation of *self-declared voting rules* for `committed_topics`.

**If this proposal is adopted, an amendment to proposal [139402](https://dashboard.internetcomputer.org/proposal/139402) is expected to be introduced to reflect the listing changes it contains, which were adopted by the ICP community.**

Listing Known Neurons by Voting Power