Solana launches onchain governance and sets entry fee at 100,000 SOL staked
Validators and the people who stake with them can now formally signal where the network should go through a new system called Solana Governance Proposals. Any validator with 100,000 SOL behind it can open one, and stakers can overrule how their validator votes.
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Summary
- Solana has activated a formal on-chain governance system, giving validators and their delegators a recorded, stake-weighted vote on the network’s direction through Solana Governance Proposals.
- Proposals require at least 100,000 SOL staked to the initiating validator, must first gain support from 15% of active stake, and then pass by a two-thirds supermajority of voting stake, with results recorded on-chain.
- The new framework separates high-level “should we do this” SGP votes from technical Solana Improvement Documents and introduces “staker sovereignty,” allowing delegators to override or replace their validators’ votes with their own stake-weighted choices.
