Foundation
Governance
Changes to the protocol and the treasury are proposed in public and decided by stake. Sample proposals for a fictional network.
Discuss
Anyone opens a draft in the forum. Two weeks of public discussion at minimum.
Propose
A holder with 10,000 OSL of stake puts the final text on-chain.
Vote
Stake votes yes, no or abstain for 14 days. A third of staked supply must vote.
Enact
Passed changes activate at the next epoch boundary, or at the date in the proposal.
Proposals
Open and recent votes
Add passkey-signed transactions
Accept secp256r1 signatures so phones can sign transactions with a passkey instead of a seed phrase.
Discussion open — voting has not started.
Discussion until 25 October 2026
Raise the block compute limit by 25%
Lift the per-block compute limit from 48 M to 60 M units after three months of testnet data showed validators have headroom.
Closes 6 October 2026
Fund an independent audit of the Tern validator client
Release 420,000 OSL from the ecosystem treasury for two independent audits of Tern before it may hold more than 10% of stake.
Closes 2 October 2026
Shorten the unbonding period from 21 to 14 days
Reduce the time stake stays locked after a delegator asks to withdraw, keeping slashing evidence windows intact.
Closed 26 August 2026
Burn half of the base fee
Send 50% of every base fee to a burn address instead of to validators.
Closed 11 August 2026
Adopt a public process for grant committee elections
Grant committee seats are elected by token holders for twelve-month terms, with published conflicts of interest.
Closed 15 July 2026