# 3 Immediate Strategic Needs for the Coop **URL:** https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/3-immediate-strategic-needs-for-the-coop/902 **Category:** Business Development **Created:** [24 February 2021 14:48 UTC](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/3-immediate-strategic-needs-for-the-coop/902 "2021-02-24T14:48:07Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![verto0912](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/gov.indexcoop.com/verto0912/32/2105_2.png) [@verto0912](https://gov.indexcoop.com/u/verto0912) #### Post date: [25 February 2021 06:11 UTC](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/3-immediate-strategic-needs-for-the-coop/902/10 "2021-02-25T06:11:34Z")
> [@LemonadeAlpha](#): > > Would quadratic voting minimize the necessity for this in the med-long terml? Would it make sense to explore that before pursuing this goal of governance power distribution? Yes, quadratic voting was brought up by @dylan in the [analysis of IIP-7](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/iip-voting-analysis/676) close to 2 months ago now. For that particular proposal “whales accounted for ~80% of INDEX voting power, but comprised ~11% of voting addresses.” My understanding is we got significant pushback on quadratic voting. We then proposed [governance mining](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/implement-governance-mining/746) coupled with delegation. I think both are good options to pursue. > [@LemonadeAlpha](#): > > One last thought, does this mean we should weigh the tradeoff of making purchases of INDEX with DPI more heavily in terms of the smart treasury? Good point and certainly worth a discussion. Smart Treasury is going to run as a 3-month experiment to start with. Overall, I think the numbers here are not significant enough to make much of a difference. I mean, 3 wallets made up 58% of the latest FLI vote for example (about 187k INDEX). I think Smart Treasury would be buying ~1.5k INDEX per month (@DarkForestCapital)? However, if we were to scale the Smart Treasury up, without addressing the governance concerns, that would be more of an issue. --- _[View the full topic](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/3-immediate-strategic-needs-for-the-coop/902)._