Inside the Sprawling Vote That Will Decide When EOS Launches

The first vote was deemed invalid, but it had enough votes for a "Go." The second was deemed valid, but it failed to meet the agreed upon threshold for launch.

Still, expectations are high for the next launch vote in the coming hours.

All indications suggest its members are very likely to vote "Go" at the next meeting, which begins at 1:00 UTC. That meeting should be livestreamed on EOS GO's YouTube channel, according to EOS New York.

EMLG holds a "Go / No Go" vote at a meeting that happens every 24 hours.

The vote to go has to reach a threshold of two-thirds-plus-one of validator candidate organizations present.

Once live, EOS holders will vote on which candidates get a spot as a block producer.

A validator candidate out of Hong Kong posted an update of the call on Twitter last night, which shows some of the other issues discussed before the vote.

CoinDesk was watching live through the last hour or so, as the first vote was tallied and the second vote happened amidst discussion.

A subset of participants committed to create a sign-in based voting system within the livestream platform they were using, in order to ensure that voting would be straightforward, each organization could only vote once and no non-block producer candidates voted.

One committed to a diminished role in the EOS launch, and to refrain from voting on proceedings with its tokens, founder and CTO Dan Larimer showed up on the EMLG call to answer questions.