[VeBetter DAO proposal] Blacklisting 11 inactive/stale apps

[Morb]

Important: This is not a ready-to-publish version of the proposal and lacks the necessary formal design. This raw version is meant to spark a conversation to determine the final list of apps to be included.

This is a simple as it gets - removing 11 projects with one or multiple of the following characteristics:

• Prolonged inactivity;
• No x2earn rewards;
• No social presence;
• No user support;
• No updates;
• App not working.

The following apps in question:

Wanchain

No x2earn rewards, ignores questions from community, have not communicated their plans with VBD.
Wanchain functions as cross-chain bridge, but there is no x2earn integration.

Carbonlarity

Last x2earn rewards: #95
Last X post: January 22nd, 2026
No user support

Vyvo

Last x2earn rewards: #89
Last x post: X account not specified, associated X accounts active
App has no x2earn functionality

Website specified on their VBD profile has announcement from July 2026 with plan to restructure to “GPU management infrastructure”. Nothing mentioned about VBD.

Source: https://www.vyvo.com/

B3tr smile, Go Paperoo, Walkie, Snapbox, B3ttery, Plant to earn AKA “The Septet”

Originally 7 apps (Ecobin was blacklisted), are owned by a connected group of people. Share same traits - no user support, poor or no social presence at all, ignoring community questions, rewarding users with laughable rewards while withdrawing the rest of the allocation.

Heavily criticized after community audit. No improvements have been made since.

Total allocation received: 706 048 b3tr
Total allocation withdrawn: 557 082 b3tr (78.9%)

Leaching on the DAO while we watch.

Just Tote

App is functional, but there is no communication from the owners with last X post on 23rd of August, 2025.
No user support, no updates. It’s unclear what is the direction of the app.

Big Bottle

Last post on X: May 7th, 2026
Rewards: inconsistent

The owner of the project has made rare appearances after some pressure from the community. Back in May Big Bottle had a refreshing update. The performance of the app saw a decline afterwards. Currently, majority of users are unable to get the app working with no communication from the owner.

From round #101 only up to 40 users/week were able to receive rewards.

The owner is not withdrawing accumulated allocation.

The goal of the proposal

The main goal is to consolidate resources from inactive, stale projects towards apps that are still around delivering updates, communicating and adding value to the DAO.

This proposal addresses the growing dissatisfaction with mentioned projects where on-chain and off-chain enforcement is yet to catch up.

Allocation data (all apps)

Received in last 10 rounds: 156 397 B3tr
Received for round #110: 16 317 B3tr

Withdrawn in last 10 rounds: 64 715 (7 apps)
Withdrawn in round #110: 8 350 b3tr (5 apps)

[Morb]

User on Discord mentioned Mendify. Mendiify recently lost endorsement and were inactive for the time they received allocation. The owner has been publicly asked about the status of the app, but we have received no reply from him.
Adding Mendify to the blacklist.

Edit: Mendify recently did a voluntary blacklist.

[Morb]

Power up got re-endorsed.
Adding Power up! to the blacklist. App is online, while it has not seen any changes.
There was a discussion on Discord between community members and the owner in December 2025, where owner showed interest in improving his project. Since he has not made any attempt to communicate with the community, no visible changes to his app.

[Morb]

Blacklisting 12 inactive/stale apps

Proposal Summary

This proposal seeks community support to blacklist 12 VeBetter DAO projects with 1 or multiple characteristics listed below:

• Prolonged inactivity;
• No x2earn rewards;
• No social presence;
• No user support;
• No updates;
• App not working.

Proposal Type

• On-chain Action
• Text-only Proposal

Proposal Changes

• Removed :
  BigBottle: 0x68c854d0aef9f5517d58d4772395d0ab44d914070fa6ca5a96f2146ca1449248
  B3TR Smile: 0x3838203fad0b4e194673009af3231e4b0fe69065e865bb95ff1c080bfdd175b9
  B3ttery: 0x9e370b9d9752955cb38678393f1a74ffee10fa837a866fc580ea79c8388c37c3
  Carbonlarity: 0xca0b325c7d08aa29642c6a82e490c99bac53e5e53dce402faa1ec12b7e382409
  GoPaperoo!: 0x4ced295f963e83fca191888bf7be300b676af802578febeeee1c8ea71a93127c
  Plant To Earn: 0x903311aa8a76fae3d4b3a405f5d4eddf2e2a807d4f8f1eb607351aef1ac0776a
  Power Up!: 0xc015835eaa377d3f591637afa368e121a4f8bf24220089ece48a7d6cb10f298b
  SnapBox: 0x991c0c9b323be86bfcabba249fddf32a7f2a04baeba50e0690ec8362a7b68504
  JusTote: 0x590839c4641c4b5934760f3237da1de3dfd5f38d078d9fecedecf8bc5b572b2b
  Wanchain: 0xf4ca10817a1ced66f9c89e82799c4451649606ed04366c4559b819a2d11d11a7
  Walkie: 0xa16434dcc9849d2c1394ebf6d2e2f5ac71056bdbd7c45b40dded18fcdc4077c9
  Vyvo: 0xa30ddd53895674f3517ed4eb8f7261a4287ec1285fdd13b1c19a1d7009e5b7e3

Action: Blacklist

• Modified: None
• Added: None

Motivation

The lack of developed ecosystem safeguards have created a leakage of weekly app allocations to inactive and stale projects. This proposal brings the opportunity to support remaining active projects by removing apps that fail to provide value to the ecosystem.

Detailed Specification

Carbonlarity

Overview: Carbonlarity sold plugs for electricity consumption measurements. They went silent without any reward payments, social media activity and user support.
Reason for blacklist: Prolonged inactivity
Last x2earn rewards: round 95
Last public activity: 22nd of January
Note: allocation wallet holds 137 022 B3tr

Wanchain

Overview: Wanchain is a cross-chain bridge that is still active and provides services. They are not active in the VBD ecosystem, no historic x2earn rewards, no communication with the community. Wanchain continuously ignores any public and private concerns/questions regarding their VBD participation.

Reason for blacklist: Prolonged inactivity
Last x2earn rewards: Never
Last public activity: X account active
Note: allocation wallet holds 36 860 B3tr

Vyvo

Overview: Vyvo has been on the VBD since round 2. They’ve struggled to maintain regular reward distribution and have been criticized about the lack of communication with the broader community of VBD. Recently, they completely stopped reward payments and announced restructuration without mentioning any plans regarding VBD.
Reason for blacklist: Prolonged inactivity
Last x2earn rewards: 88
Last public activity: 4th of August, 2025
Note: allocation wallet holds 164 528 B3tr

BigBottle

Overview: BigBottle is a simpe x2earn app rewarding users for receipts with bottles in them. Joined in round 44. Saw 1 update after community pressure in May 2026. Since, the app went silent again with no user support. User feedback and low user numbers indicate the app is not working properly, with sub 80 active weekly users in the past 10 rounds.

Reason for blacklist: Bugs, no user support, lack of updates
Last public activity: 27th of May
Note: allocation wallet holds 112 993 B3tr

JusTote

Overview: JustTote rewards users for grocery receipts. While the app is fully functional, it has not seen a single update for a year. JusTote is failing to provide user support and does not respond to farming reports.

Reason for blacklist: Stale project, no user support, lack of public activity
Last public activity: 23rd of August, 2025
Note: allocation wallet holds 159 162 B3tr, 500+ active weekly wallets, historical rewards 70%

PowerUp!

Re-endorsed project with no activity. Owner of the project has not made any public announcements about updates and plans with Power Up! Last activity from the owner regarding his app was in December 2025. Last X post on 1st of December.

Septet

Overview: Septet consists of 7 apps owned by a connected group of people with shared exit wallets. One of the apps, Ecobin, has been blacklisted recently for inactivity. A detailed description of their performance has been documented in an audit. Since, their performance has not improved, despite the fact they were aware about the community concerns.
Reason for blacklist: no user support, no updates, poor public activity, low user rewards/high manual withdrawals.
Combined allocation stats:

• Withdrawn: 559 332 B3tr (78.68%)

• User Rewards: 138 092 B3tr (19.42%)

• Unused: 13 486 B3tr (1.90%)

1. B3tr Smile

Last public activity: 11th of June
User support: In-app ticket system, no replies documented
Historic user rewards: 37% (ranging from 6.9% to 32.6% in last 10 rounds)

2. B3ttery

Last public activity: 31st of December
User support: Not provided
Historic user rewards: 5.8% (ranging from 0% to 104.6% in last 10 rounds)

3. GoPaperoo!

No social media accounts
User support: Not provided
Historic user rewards: 23.9% (ranging from 0% to 66.5% in last 10 rounds)

4. Plant To Earn

Last public activity: 7th of May
User support: Discord, owner has not replied since January. His last advice was:

Historic user rewards: 14.3% (ranging from 6.6% to 42.7% in last 10 rounds)

5. Snapbox

Last public activity: 21st of November
User support: Not provided

Historic user rewards: 10.7% (ranging from 11.9% to 88.6% in last 10 rounds)

6. Walkie

No social media accounts
User support: Not provided

Historic user rewards: 54.6% (ranging from 0% to 45.4% in last 10 rounds)

Goals

1. Removing inactive/stale projects from VBD;
2. Increasing potential average allocation for remaining active projects.

Risk Analysis

Risk: Reduction in VBD projects
Mitigation: Removing low effort/inactive projects improves user experience and consolidates remaining resources to active projects.

Risk: Removal is subjective
Mitigation: VBD has not caught up with the development to address inactive projects. The only available tool to address community concerns is a proposal targeting individual apps. While this approach is not recommended for a decentralized environment, it allows to immediately address inefficient use of VBD funds.

Community Engagement

The proposal was discussed by community members and app owners on VBD Community Hub Discord server, link to Discourse discussion shared on X and Telegram.

Conclusion

Blacklisting these 12 inactive and underperforming projects is a necessary step to protect the ecosystem and ensure allocations go to projects actively building. While a governance-led cleanup is a temporary solution until automated safeguards are implemented, it immediately addresses the leakage of weekly allocations. By removing these stale participants, the community cleans up the user experience and maximizes funding for the remaining active projects.

References

Discussion on public Discord server
Community audit: the septet of the dao

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Community Framework Requirements

Maximum Implementation Budget: 4000 B3TR*

Development Timeline: The timing of execution is determined solely by the GOVERNANCE_ROLE holder.

*This is a text-only proposal and does not require development from the author. The indicated budget is a symbolic reward for research, formal creation and publishing of the proposal, and maintaining community engagement throughout the lifecycle of the proposal.

Author Information

• Name: Morb
• Contact Information: @morbidejs
• Vechain address: 0x0a9ac69482cf54862d4928f7db01f1056e7c1d21

Date:
August 19, 2026

[Morb]

BigBottle reached out and asked to relay his message.

[Morb]

BigBottle shared an update.

Would appreciate thoughts on this.

BigBottle (@bigbottle_vet) on X

[Elgreco.vet]

Not a very convincing post from Big Bottle

[Elgreco.vet]

I support your proposal, we need to ensure quality control as a community and if building is not happening for months on projects they should also not get rewards. Maybe those are the ones creating selling pressure of the token too.

[Morb]

I agree about the quality control. As mentioned in the proposal, this is not the preferred method (picking individual apps based on subjective metrics). Meantime, we have not developed any ecosystem wide safeguards to determine, what is considered “low” quality, and allowed avoidable dilution of weekly allocations.

I’ve gathered data about last 10 rounds (starting from 103) for allocation received and withdrawn, 12 apps from the proposal compared against all apps.

Received allocation
All: 12 762 815 B3tr
12 apps from the proposal: 132 150 B3tr (1.03%)

Withdrawn allocation
All: 3 684 249 B3tr
12 apps from the proposal: 62 092 B3tr (1.68%)

Withdrawn against received:
All: 28.86%
12 apps from the proposal: 46.98%

While withdrawals are not necessary sold, this data shows the 12 apps from the proposal make only 1.68% of total withdrawals in the last 10 rounds.

When it comes to the % withdrawn against received, the shared % among all VBD apps is 28.86%, while the 12 apps withdraw 46.98%.
Among 12 apps from the proposal, 7 have made withdrawals (Plant to earn, B3ttery, Walkie, Snapbox, Gopaperoo!, B3tr Smile, JusTote).
Carbonlarity, Wanchain, Vyvo, PowerUp! have not withdrawn because they are not active on the VBD, while BigBottle have not withdrawn by choice.

Interesting fact. Based on Big Bottle`s average rewards in the last 10 rounds (505 b3tr/round), their unused allocation could support this average for 223 more rounds.

[YuichiHosomi]

First of all, I think this is a very thoughtful and necessary proposal based on the current state of VeBetterDAO.

Rather than simply identifying inactive dApps, I feel this proposal raises a much more important question:

What does VeBetterDAO actually need at this stage in order to remain healthy, sustainable and valuable for its users?

Reviewing whether DAO resources should continue to be allocated to projects that are no longer actively contributing is, in my opinion, a reasonable and responsible approach.

I also appreciate that this proposal opens the discussion to the community instead of treating blacklisting as an automatic decision.

That is why I would like to add some context regarding Vyvo.

I do not want to argue for Vyvo simply because I have been involved with the project. I would rather use this case to think about what creates the most value for VeBetterDAO.

Vyvo’s situation is slightly different from a typical inactive or abandoned dApp.

Vyvo is currently undergoing a major restructuring. It has announced the wind-down of Vyvo Smart Chain, VSC Coin and the inPersona Data-NFT business, while its SocialFi, AI and other technologies are being reorganized separately.

Vyvo has also stated that it will communicate with its partners regarding this transition.

When this restructuring was announced, I immediately informed the VeChain Foundation and shared the situation as transparently as I could.

What remains unclear is whether Vyvo’s Web3 activities will be completely discontinued or whether they will continue under a different infrastructure.

For this reason, I think this case raises a broader question:

What should VeBetterDAO do when an ecosystem partner shuts down its own blockchain, restructures its Web3 business, or migrates elsewhere?

This may happen again as the Web3 industry continues to consolidate.

Rather than simply losing those existing Web3 users, VeBetterDAO could potentially become a destination for them.

I am not suggesting that Vyvo should continue receiving allocation while inactive.

Perhaps cases like this could temporarily be placed under a “transition / under review” status, with no expectation of allocation, until the project’s future relationship with VeBetterDAO becomes clear.

If Vyvo confirms that it will continue its Web3 activities and remain involved with VeBetterDAO, it should be evaluated under the same standards as every other dApp.

If Vyvo confirms a complete withdrawal, I would fully understand blacklisting it.

I am also considering a proposal for how existing Vyvo Web3 users could be introduced to the wider VeBetterDAO ecosystem if Vyvo ultimately exits.

My original goal was for Vyvo users to discover VeBetterDAO’s diverse applications, while VeBetterDAO users interested in AI, wearables and emerging technology could also discover Vyvo.

I still hope both ecosystems can grow together.

But even if that becomes impossible, I believe we should think about how this transition can still create value for VeBetterDAO and give existing Web3 users a path to continue participating.

So rather than treating Vyvo only as another inactive dApp, could we consider separating this case temporarily and using it to explore a broader ecosystem transition framework that could apply to future projects as well?

[Morb]

Hey Yuichi,

Appreciate your participation in the discussion!

I want to highlight the ease of voluntary blacklist. It is done through admin section of the app on governance page by the admin wallet. It requires one minute - a click on “blacklist app” and signing a transaction.

Voluntary self blacklist was executed by Re-use (formerly Reuse) after the owner decided the app needs to be restructured before competing for allocation again. Re-use reapplied once they were ready to continue providing services to the users.

VeDelegate was blacklisted after they did not met the newly voted rules. They restructured and re-applied once they were able to provide services with a new concept (lock2earn).

A blacklist is a formality, one of few tools at our disposal to set voting eligibility to False. It can be done voluntarily or via governance proposal.
Even when blacklisted, apps can apply for a new Creator NFT. Once the application is reviewed and the Creator NFT is sent to the owners wallet, it allows to submit the app and get listed on the governance page - once endorser support is reached, app is competing for allocation in voting rounds.

Most recently we saw voluntary blacklists from Mendify and 3 Veducks apps. Instead of collecting allocation without providing services, they removed themselves.

The most respectful way to address this should have been a voluntary blacklist and re-applying once Vyvo has a functional app again. Unused allocation Vyvo is receiving could be utilized by apps who are currently active and providing services to VBD users.

This does not affect the potential transitioning of previous Vyvo users to VBD and development of additional features to address situations like this, when an app needs a “pause”. Blacklist simply stops Vyvo from receiving allocation. They are more than welcome back once they have restructured and if their new direction fits in the VBD ecosystem.

[Morb]

Final thoughts before publishing the proposal.

I’ve gathered as much as possible feedback on apps in question.

6 connected apps (B3tr Smile, Plant To Earn, Snapbox, Walkie, GoPaperoo!, B3ttery) did not make any attempt to address long known issues. A community poll held on the start of the January sent a clear signal of willingness to remove them from the DAO.

Link to Dicord

Carbonlarity, PowerUp! and Wanchain remain inactive, no attempts in communication.

We received feedback from Japanese community member @YuichiHosomi about Vyvo. Vyvo doesn’t have a functional VBD integration and are going through restructuration. Vyvo will remain in the blacklist proposal, but they are welcome back once they settle for the new direction and have a functional app. They have 164k b3trt unused allocation to cover unresolved user reward claims if such exist.

BigBottle reached out and made an announcement about the current situation and the future of the app. App remains functional, but with restrictions with receipt validation, making it inconsistent.
The owner shared “We’ll continue maintaining it, fixing important bugs, and keeping the existing service running. But we don’t plan to invest heavily in adding new features going forward.”
As “BigBottle has essentially completed what it was built to do”, no major upgrades are planned, unused allocation can sustain user rewards for more than 200 rounds and user feedback signals approval for a blacklist, BigBottle remains in the proposal, while the door remains open for BigBottle to re-apply in the future.

JusTote remains functional, but have not attempted to reach out to inform about the future plans, potential updates an to address current issues.
JusTote holds 153 574 B3tr in unused allocation. With their current average distribution of 5 177 b3tr/round, unused allocation allows them to distribute user rewards for 29 more rounds. This gives them time to address issues with lack of updates and communication, while maintaining the app active.

[Morb]

Proposal is published and looking for support

Blacklisting 12 inactive/stale apps | VeBetter

Edit: Proposal reached support overnight and will be up for voting in round #114.