Governance
Your vote, verified and counted.

Execution boundaries — read this first

A vote here is a structured expression of community preference. It does not itself move treasury funds, execute a token burn, or trigger any on-chain transaction. Every category is labeled with its governance mode (advisory / community-approved / maintainer-ratified / binding-within-defined-policy), and every sensitive action — burns, treasury allocation — remains a separately authorized, manually executed step after a passed vote, with public evidence recorded once it happens. See Rules & documentation below for the full rules and the Burn Center for the same execution boundary already enforced there.

Live status

Have an idea?

Anyone with a verified wallet can submit a proposal idea for maintainer review. Submitting is not publishing — it creates a reviewable draft only; nothing here can schedule or activate a vote by itself.

📝 Submit a Proposal →

Proposals

Voting eligibility

Checked server-side every time — never trusted from the browser. Default rule for Governance v1:

• Signed in with the shared WinLEW session (same login as Dashboard/Quiz/Faucet).
• A verified, linked Solana wallet (the same verification the Dashboard already shows).
• That wallet holds at least 1 WinLEW. Verifying is what earns your vote — that was the original intent, and it is the intent again.
• Buying extra weight on top of that free vote is separate, and needs at least 1,000,000 WinLEW held. The 1,000,000 bar set on 2026-07-17 was not dropped; it moved from deciding whether you have a voice to deciding whether you can amplify one. Purchased weight is paid for with governance contributions and stays capped, so no holder can buy their way past the ceiling.
• One verified wallet = one free vote, plus an optional paid vote-weight boost (see "Adding vote weight" below) — no free-form token-weighting. Since v1.1, your eligibility for a specific proposal is locked in the first time it's checked at or after that proposal's snapshot boundary — later balance changes don't change it. This is not a full historical chain snapshot; see the rules doc for exactly what it does and doesn't guarantee.

Verified holders also get a Verified WinLEW Holders Discord role and access to the private #governance channel where proposals are discussed before a vote opens — a recognition signal and a place to talk, not the vote-eligibility check itself (that's always the live balance rule above).

Adding vote weight

Your free vote as a verified holder always counts. On top of that, anyone can add weight to their vote on a specific open proposal — roughly $1 per additional vote, capped at 10 per proposal — by sending WinLEW through Contribute's "Governance Vote Weight" option.

• Priced off a 3-day trailing average, not the current spot price — a brief price spike (buy heavily, vote while it's pumped, sell after) has limited effect on a 72-hour average, which is what actually keeps this from being cheaply gameable.
• Every payment is a real, independently re-verified on-chain transfer through the same Contribute flow used for Dev/Faucet/Burn — never a self-reported amount.
• Weight from one proposal can't be double-counted on another — paying for weight allocates that specific amount to that specific proposal.
• Quorum (whether enough people showed up to vote at all) is still based on the number of distinct wallets that voted, regardless of weight — a low-turnout vote can't pass just because one wallet bought the maximum.

How to unlock voting

Voting eligibility reuses the exact same Discord-verified wallet link the Dashboard and every holder-tier role already use — there is no separate governance-only verification step.

1. In Discord, type /mole link (either bot works) and follow the link it gives you — or skip straight there from the website with the button below.
2. Verify your wallet on the website at /verify/ — sign a message with your wallet to prove ownership (no private key or seed phrase is ever entered anywhere).
3. Your Discord roles (including Verified WinLEW Holders and access to #governance) are applied automatically the moment verification completes — nothing else to click. Server Settings → Linked Roles is just where you can go to see it; it's not a separate step you need to perform.

Governance eligibility checks your linked wallet's live balance directly — it does not read your Discord role. The role is a recognition badge and your #governance channel key; the vote itself is checked on-chain every time.

Governance process

1. Draft & review — a proposal is drafted and reviewed for completeness/safety.
2. Discussion — opened in Discord for community discussion before any vote.
3. Active voting — a defined window; eligible holders cast (and may update) a vote.
4. Result — quorum and approval threshold are checked automatically, publicly.
5. Maintainer safety review — a passed vote is reviewed before anything is approved for execution.
6. Execution (if applicable) — a separate, manually authorized action, with public evidence recorded here afterward.

Categories

You can do all of this from Discord

The same proposals, the same eligibility check, the same record — governance is not website-only:

• /mole proposals — list proposals with live results
• /mole vote — cast or update your vote on an open proposal
• /mole myvote — privately check your current vote
• /mole votes — your Governance Vote Fund total and purchased vote weight
• /mole propose — submit a proposal for maintainer review

Voting from Discord is checked server-side exactly as it is here, and your individual choice stays private on both.

Rules & documentation

Full governance rules — eligibility, vote privacy, weighting method, quorum, approval thresholds, execution boundaries and known limitations: Governance rules →

Every field a real proposal carries, and the rule each one satisfies: Proposal template →

Both are published here rather than linked off-site, so the rules are readable by anyone the moment they are cited.