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What is Cardano GovTool?

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Last updated 2 months ago

The Cardano Govtool is a community tool that supports the key steps of Cardano's Governance process as described in . Govtool is part of the core governance tools.

Intersect has facilitated the bootstrapping of GovTool and supported the process to fully open source it, allowing community ownership for improvement and maintenance.

The Cardano Govtool, together with the other core tools such as the Constitutional Committee Portal, is currently managed by the Intersect , the four existing pillars that make Govtool (Proposal Discussion, Delegation, Outcomes and Voting) are developed and maintained by the WeDeliver Team, the Byron team, the Lido Nation team and tested by the DQuadrand team.

GovTool is an application that enables users to participate in many ways in the governance of the Cardano blockchain.

GovTool enables ada holders to:

  • View with or without connecting a wallet.

  • Register to vote () without becoming a DRep.

  • to a DRep

  • Register to become a Delegated Representative (), allowing others to delegate their voting power to the DRep.

  • - available to users that are registered to vote as DReps or Direct Voters.

  • See outcomes of votes.

  • a Governance Action.

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