In November 2019 Stevan Lohja published the results of an Ethereum Classic use satisfaction poll on Medium. It had eight questions and 32 responses, and we haven’t found a survey of the ETC community since.
Seven years on we’re running a new one. The Ethereum Classic Community Survey 2026 is open now and takes around ten minutes. It is your way to get your voice heard in ETC, and the results will be made public for everyone, aggregated and anonymous. Finish it and you can enter a draw for 8.88 ETC, a prize sponsored by ETC Grants DAO.
We want the answers so we can decide what to work on, and that’s the first thing the welcome screen tells you.
Around ten minutes is all it takes to help us decide what to work on. Your answers are never published individually.
Above the title on that screen is the line “Nothing is official”. We run the survey ourselves, and the privacy policy has the long version.
Classix is an independent company that works on Ethereum Classic infrastructure. It is not an official Ethereum Classic body, and this survey is not run on behalf of Ethereum Classic or anyone else in it.
Most questions take one tap, so the ten minutes holds unless you add a lot of comments. None of the questions is required. There’s a Skip button at the bottom of every screen, and because it saves as you go you can stop halfway and what you gave still counts.
If the options miss what you wanted to say, every question has a comment button. There are nine languages (English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Hindi) and the survey picks one from your browser, which you can change on the first screen if it guessed wrong.
Who It’s For
It’s for anyone who holds, uses, mines, builds on or follows Ethereum Classic, and also for anyone who used to and stepped away. There are eleven sections, and which of them you see depends on what you tell it at the start. Miners get a section on mining. Node operators and developers get one on nodes and building.
If you were once involved and aren’t now, you get a section called Stepping Back, which asks what made you leave and what would bring you back, and it opens like this.
Stepping Back. You said you used to be involved. This part matters most to us.
The answers are used “to understand the ETC community and to decide what to work on, such as client and infrastructure work, documentation, translations, events and the brand”, in the policy’s words, and the brand gets a section to itself that everyone sees. It’s called How ETC Looks and its first line is “How ETC comes across. This feeds the brand refresh.”
Halfway through there’s a break, a 15-second game where you tap to hash and try to mine a block, and you can skip that too.
Privacy
You don’t have to say who you are, and we never publish individual responses. We do store more than your answers. The privacy policy says what we keep, why, for how long and who gets to see it, so read it before you start.
Results
The results will be made public in 2027, as aggregated and anonymous charts and totals. The survey tells you that on the tips screen, before you’ve answered anything.
Charts and totals in 2027. All answers are anonymised before anything is published.
In the policy, anonymised means that any group smaller than ten respondents is merged before publishing and that a quoted comment has anything identifying removed first. If you want the results sent to you when they’re out, leave an email at the end and tick “Send me the results”. The last question also takes a name or handle, which goes in the report’s thank-you list.
The NFT and the Draw
Everyone who finishes can claim a commemorative 2026 Participant NFT, sent to an ETC address of your choice after the survey closes. Use a fresh one. The claim form asks for an address that isn’t linked to your existing holdings (and never an exchange deposit address), since a minted NFT is visible on the public chain like any other ETC transaction.
The draw is separate and you have to opt in. One finisher wins 8.88 ETC, sponsored by ETC Grants DAO. To enter you give your X handle along with your address, follow @classix_dev and @ETCGrantsDao from that account, and post the survey link with the entry code you get on the last page. We draw the winner at random in January 2027 from the entries that still follow both accounts and still have the post up, so keep the follows and the post until then. One entry per person.
You choose on the prize screen before the first question, though if you passed on it there the claim form at the end offers the draw again. If you enter, your device and connection are checked once, when you claim, for automated and duplicate entries, and if you pick survey only that check never runs. The full rules are in the privacy policy.
Take the survey, and send the link to someone else in ETC.
