Impossible Futures — Voting will kick off today, 8th May at 11:00 GMT

Get Ready Again!

Impossible Futures voting will kick off today at 11:00 GMT and run for 7 days.

Some things to note:

  • If the project you vote for is successful, you’ll get 1 ANT back per vote, paid after the awards on the 13th August, 2025.
  • Votes for popular projects can cost more than 1 ANT.
  • Votes are purchased, so the funds aren’t locked up or returned.
  • If you voted yesterday, you’ll get your ANT back to your wallet (and any gas fees) prior to the vote starting.
  • Take a look at all the amazing projects before deciding — including one newcomer!
  • You should have a read of the FAQs and T&Cs too, especially if you are part of a project team.
  • Feel free to reach out to any of the teams to ask questions here or our Discord.

Good luck to you all. Have fun, be kind, and let’s build the new web!

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I have tried to vote but failed. I transferred a small amount of ETH to an account with ANT but it has gone to the Etherium Mainnet rather than Arbitrum One ETH. It take it the ETH has to be on Arbitrum One?

If I get the address from Metamask to transfer some ETH to it is just the same address. How can I get ETH to Arbitrum One?

Have main net eth on an address, go to arbitrum.io choose bridge, choose amount of eth to bridge to Arbitrum One Eth and follow through making the bridge, it will connect and bridge through MetaMask.

After that if you want to send ANT then MetaMask needs to be set to the Arbitrum One network for ANT transactions to work.

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Ah! I thought there must be something I was missing. Thanks, I’ll have another go. I fear I will run out of time. Work is mad. I need to stop that nonsense and focus on what matters!

Now that I look at all the projects I don’t know what to do though. I want them all to win!

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Use https://debridge.finance/ to swap the ETH on ETH for ETH on ARB. The dapp is fast and takes a few seconds to do it.

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There seems to be a bug in the voting, which is stopping a lot of people from being able to vote.

I thought it was just me earlier, but several others are having the same issue.

Some details in Discord here: Discord

It seems to have kicked in since the price multiplier started at some point over the last few hours.

If many folks genuinely can’t vote due to a bug, it seems like action needs to be taken, e.g. pause the vote, fix the bug, then give every team a fair sprint finish.

@JimCollinson @Bux

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Is it just me that looks at the way certain projects keep getting bumped back up into the top 12 and think.. bs.
Fishy.

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Maybe and maybe its just like online bids where people keep upping their bid.

Might just be people wanting their favourite projects to win and so keep adding more votes as needed to get their favourite back into top 12

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As it seems to be possible to vote by manually interacting with the Blockchain I would be tempted to do it… But then again the rules are still not clear to me and throwing token at something where projects might become disqualified because of >50% or some other rule, others may or may not move into the top12..? But where I surely loose by doing so (either because the vote doesn’t succeed or because it succeeds but costs above 1 ant per vote xD…) doesn’t look supercool

… I really don’t understand the motivation to purposely not telling us the rules of the game we’re supposed to participate in …

As far as I know votes could get super cheap last minute again too :man_shrugging: or all current top12 could get disqualified and the next 12 projects enter round 2 instead

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Trying to vote and I’m getting network fees of 10359 ETH and saying that the transaction is likely to fail (duh). Anyone else have this issue?

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I second extending the vote. I’m trying to get Ryyn and IMIM back on the leaderboard dammit. But also keep Mutant and Friends on there too.

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Seems like the voting app has a bug

Probably a rounding error happening when the time multiplier does the timeFactor * antPerVote calculation (due to the factor being some form of float and the ant being a number with 18 decimal places cracking above float precision…)

In theory you can vote by manually operating the Blockchain contract…

But it’s most certainly a pain and may go wrong…

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Too weary to do that as well.

Stinks when things don’t go as smoothly as we want. Now it seems like an opportunity for people to cry foul. I know my dream 12 and it was perfect a couple days ago. Anyways I was trying to do some last minute bid support and I’ve been foiled.

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Yeah a Tricky situation appeared there… And in addition all of them might be in the top12 depending on the consequences of someone breaking the rules and votes not being “successful” … (with the rules about successful votes just being explained in the discord announcement but not on the ‘how does it work?’ on the website…but consequences for the ranking/projects of unsuccessful votes defined nowhere)

I don’t think they can simply pause the voting because it’s a smart contract… But if we go for rule changes again I really would appreciate knowing the rules then this time (including formula for voting cost calculation - with explanation for the time factor and how that is calculated)

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It will certainly be interesting how this all pans out tomorrow morning. If the intent was to whittle down the projects to a manageable number, I think they succeeded. In my opinion, the cleanest answer is to say “You know, this didn’t go as we planned, so we’re just going to take the top 16 projects to phase 2”. Just roll with it. The optics at this point are pretty bad. Complicating the situation by shutting projects out or over analyzing the on chain transactions isn’t going to make people feel better. If stupid is as stupid does, don’t continue the stupidity.

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Just to add to this, if they do another IF challenge, I think what @Southside said on the discord is the right approach: anonymous poll. You could do something like this:

  1. Everyone who has subscribed to the discord or the Autonomi forum 30 days before the announcement and had made at least one post is eligible to vote
  2. After the pitches have been made, ballots are DM’d to each eligible voter
  3. Each voter selects their top 12 picks in descending order (ranked choice voting)
  4. After a week, voting closes, the votes are tallied, and results are announced with supporting vote tallies

Easy, clean, fair, done.

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And the result will not be influenced by the size of your bag.

We can do that in Phase 2 and see who is ready to lockup their ANT. But the whole (active) community gets a say on which projects should move forward.

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ArbiTrack has a ready analysis with the projects that violate the 50% rule and which have several times fewer unique votes than the average but are in the top 12. We will share it with @Saykor once the voting is over.


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That is good, trying to vote for RYYN but it says 10 eth gas fee, just hope RYYN and IMIM can get back in the top 12 somehow.

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We’re getting close to the voting phase, and honestly, whatever happens, happens. I want to be clear: I’m not going to vote for myself.

If the goal was just to be in the top three, a lot of projects, including mine, have enough ANT to make that happen. But that’s not the point for me.

What I truly want is to connect with the Autonomi developers, continue building this project, and grow it further if the network and you, the community, allow us to.
And I believe there’s no one better than you to guide me in the right direction to make that happen.

I think we’ve already made enough noise to be heard, and honestly, that was my goal from the beginning. I just hope this opens the door to working with any of you in the future.

Thank you again for your time and support. :folded_hands:

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