# Community Ownership | Retroactive airdrop to historical contributors

**URL:** <https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/community-ownership-retroactive-airdrop-to-historical-contributors/3199>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [13 November 2021 00:30 UTC](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/community-ownership-retroactive-airdrop-to-historical-contributors/3199 "2021-11-13T00:30:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tradespot](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/gov.indexcoop.com/tradespot/32/2374_2.png) [@Tradespot](https://gov.indexcoop.com/u/Tradespot)\
**Post date:** [18 November 2021 08:43 UTC](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/community-ownership-retroactive-airdrop-to-historical-contributors/3199/16 "2021-11-18T08:43:53Z")

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> [@Cavalier\_Eth](#):
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> From a personal perspective: Generally speaking, those 20-30 are the core contributors of Index Coop, who have been committed for an extended period of time, and perform a huge proportion of the output, so they deserve a good payout. The exact amount can be debated, but proportionally greater than the lesser contributions is fair.
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> It’s worth highlighting again, that unless we are able to reward and incentivise the core contributors to stay, we are at imminent risk of losing them to offers that are **currently being made** by other protocols. The market does not care about our feelings, and ultimately individuals need to act in their interests.

Thanks, @Cavalier_Eth. Respectfully, I would say IC isn’t at a stage where we should be giving blanket rewards for previously accounted and paid for contributions considering, in my opinion, IC is actually in a challenging place right now.

- Organisationally, TTM, identity etc
- Products, our last two products have $6M TVL in 6 months or so (BED/DATA)
- $INDEX, [liquidity is bad](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/increase-index-liquidity/) considering we have a dedicated MM on-side
- Treasury is 50%+ down, albeit in a bull market + near ATH’s (if people haven’t experienced what a bear market can do, there are no exceptions). Whatever we are doing in combination with the above liquidity concern is not being received by the wider audience in terms of $INDEX price, and essentially is IC’s runway.

I believe INDEX 2.0 looks to create the right leadership and organisation structure to remedy this, and I would essentially like to explore removing the airdrop component of the proposal altogether and bolster, heavily, all future payouts to contributions that help us lead the org, release great products and market them - which hopefully all core contributors are in prime position to capitalise on immediately (and maybe this is done via unexplored compensation structures).

Also, I get this is going against the grain with the majority who stand to gain here, but let me be explicit in saying that, like you all, I only want IC to succeed and I have no issue with the notion of showering INDEX to the contributors that make IC the undeniable, gold standard decentralised asset manager. I just think the past 6 months has presented some major hurdles to overcome before that is the case.

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