Participate in governance

This guide covers the practical steps. For how the system is designed — what governance controls, the contracts involved, and Ekubo, Inc.’s role — see Governance.

Stake and delegate

Voting power comes from staked EKUBO, delegated to an address. Delegate to yourself to vote directly, or to someone else to have them vote on your behalf.

Use the Delegate page in the app, or call the Staker contract directly:

Function	Effect
stake(delegate)	Stakes your full approved balance to a delegate
stake_amount(delegate, amount)	Stakes a specific amount
withdraw(delegate, recipient) / withdraw_amount(delegate, recipient, amount)	Withdraws staked tokens

There is no lockup and no penalty for withdrawing at any time.

Note

Your voting weight is not your staked balance. It is the average amount delegated to you over the voting weight smoothing duration ending when voting opens — currently 1 day. Because the voting start delay is only 1 hour, stake well before a proposal you care about is created, not after.

Create a proposal

You need voting weight at or above the proposal creation threshold (currently 100,000 EKUBO) and no other active proposal of your own.

Create one from the proposal page, or on-chain:

• propose(calls) — submit the calls the proposal will execute
• describe(proposalId, description) — attach a description
• propose_and_describe(calls, description) — both at once

A proposal commits to its calls by hash. The same calls must be supplied again at execution, so keep them.

Voting opens after the voting start delay (currently 1 hour). Discuss proposals in the Discord before submitting — the delay exists so problems can be caught early.

Vote

Call vote(proposalId, yea) with true for yea or false for nay, or vote in the app. One vote per address, only during the voting period (currently 4 days).

A proposal passes if it reaches quorum (currently 3,250,000 EKUBO in yea votes) and receives strictly more yea than nay. A tie fails.

Cancel, if needed

cancel(proposalId) — available to the proposer only, and only before voting opens. This is the correction window for a mistake in a submitted proposal.

Execute

After a proposal passes and the execution delay elapses (currently 1 hour), anyone can call execute(proposalId, calls) with the original calls. Execution must happen within the execution window (currently 30 days) or the proposal expires.

Execution is atomic: all calls succeed or none do. A proposal that reverts can be retried within the window.

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Current parameter values and what governance controls are documented in Governance. Contract addresses are in the governance contracts reference.