# About the Governance category

**URL:** <https://community.agoric.com/t/about-the-governance-category/15>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [October 13, 2022, 5:35am UTC](https://community.agoric.com/t/about-the-governance-category/15 "2022-10-13T05:35:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 5:35am UTC](https://community.agoric.com/t/about-the-governance-category/15/1 "2022-10-13T05:35:20Z")

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The Agoric chain has an on-chain governance mechanism for signaling, changing consensus parameters, network upgrades, etc. Voting power is represented by staked BLD. The on-chain process requires

- a proposal, including a refundable deposit
- a quorum of votes (currently: 1/3rd of voting power)
- a positive vote tally (currently: 50% of voting power)

Building support for a proposal involves some off-chain preparation. This category is for discussions about such proposals. Relevant topics include:

- Proposal discussions
- Governance questions
- Draft proposal feedback

Governance proposals are typically discussed a few days before they go on-chain. Proposers are encouraged to engage the community and raise awareness by sharing posts in the [Agoric Discord server](https://agoric.com/discord) [governance channel](https://discord.com/channels/585576150827532298/961020177716232192).

[Submitting a Proposal | Cosmos Hub](https://hub.cosmos.network/main/governance/submitting.html) has useful reference material.