Next Stage — The $POOL Governance Model
As the ecosystem matures, control transitions toward token-weighted participation through $POOL Governance.
Staked $POOL holders become the core voting body governing both economic and strategic protocol parameters.
Voting Rights
Eligibility: Only staked $POOL qualifies for voting; unstaked tokens have no governance weight.
Weight Function: Voting power scales with the square root of staked amount (√model) to prevent whale domination.
Delegation: Holders may delegate votes to trusted addresses without unstaking.
Snapshot Voting: Each proposal uses a block-height snapshot of staked balances to prevent flashloan manipulation.
Proposals & Parameters
Tokenholders can propose and vote on:
Agent Management
Whitelisting or delisting community Agents.
Approving new strategy submissions from partners.
Emission Schedules
Adjusting staking or referral emission decay rates.
Deciding how unused rewards roll forward to future epochs.
Integration & Expansion
Approving new execution venues.
Expanding to new chains or trading asset classes.
Governance Upgrades
Transitioning from Council to DAO.
Ratifying changes to voting contracts or frameworks.
Proposal Lifecycle
Draft Phase
Proposal authored by any former council member with ≥10,000 staked $POOL or equivalent delegated votes.
Drafts hosted on the Darkpool Forum (snapshot/tally) for discussion (off-chain phase).
Submission Phase
Proposal submitted on-chain with deposit (100 $POOL) to deter spam.
48-hour warm-up before voting opens.
Voting Phase
5-day voting window.
Each staked address casts weighted votes.
Quorum = 10% of total staked supply; approval threshold = simple majority (>50%).
Execution Phase
Passed proposals queued in the Governance Timelock (48h).
Council executes via permissioned executor until full DAO control is live.
Post-Execution Review
Proposal results and treasury effects logged publicly.
Failed or expired proposals have deposits refunded minus gas.
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