Having personally run the last few governance votes by manually issuing tokens to validators and providing tally tools - a painful and manual process - this is an incredibly important step forward for Solana governance.
Validators are a truly decentralised and globally distributed set of network guardians and a network that enables them to represent views based on the stake entrusted to them is critical to long term health and safety of the network and ecosystem.
1/ Solana onchain governance is live🗳️
Validators can now propose, support, and decide core protocol decisions via Solana Governance Proposals (SGPs)
These are fully onchain, stake-weighted, and verified by Merkle proof 👇