Solana Foundation launches framework for protocol-level governance
The Solana Foundation, the Swiss organization that supports the Solana networks development, launched a new framework for protocol-level governance that enables proposing and voting on governance decisions for the Solana blockchain. The Solana Governance Proposals (SGPs) establish a standard that enables validators to submit core protocol proposals and vote onchain, with voting power based on their delegated Solana (SOL) stake, the Foundation announced in a Thursday X post. “An SGP captures a stake-weighted directional decision. It records what the community wants. It is not strictly focused on the technical detail of how to build the feature,” according to the GitHub repository, launched on Thursday. The new framework offers Solana a transparent, community-driven way to make major protocol decisions, reducing reliance on centralized coordination while keeping technical implementations, or Solana Improvement Documents (SIMDs), separate from community governance. Other blockchain networks with similar stake-weighted governance mechanisms include Polkadot, Cosmos, Cardano, Tezos and Avalanche.Source: Solana Foundation on X.com Proposals require minimum 15% support A proposal must receive endorsements from validators representing at least 15% of actively staked Solana tokens to qualify for a formal onchain vote, a measure that seeks to filter out low-quality proposals. Validators with at least 100,000 SOL delegated can open a new governance proposal via SGP.