Democracy Proposals

Mechanism

The process for making changes to the network involves both active token holders and the council coming together to make a decision about a network upgrade.

Proposals can come from either the public (token holders) or the council, but they must ultimately be put to a vote by all token holders. This process is called as a Referedum. The weight of each vote is determined by a combination of the amount added and the conviction (time period for which user locks their funds). You can find more details about it at Voting on a Referendum

Public Proposals are called as Democracy Proposals in Polkassembly, while Council Proposals are present in Council Motions and have a tag of Council

When the council votes on democracy proposals, they are categorized as Council. If they vote on Treasury Proposal, they are categorised as Treasury.

For more information on how the council is formed, please refer to Council