How Much Does One Vote Count?
Delegate Alice’s power to Bob, freeze the snapshot, and compare participation with quorum and support.
- Explain why voting power freezes at proposal creation
- Separate delegation, direct voting, abstention, and quorum
- Use participation to decide whether a proposal may continue
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Delegate Alice’s power to Bob, freeze the snapshot, and compare participation with quorum and support.
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Think about these questions first.
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Q01Can borrowed tokens seize a vote after it starts?＋
Well-designed governance usually reads voting power from a snapshot before the proposal begins, so later borrowing does not change that vote. Snapshot timing, delegation, and lending can still create other attack surfaces.
Token governance makes representation computable, but not simple. Delegation, snapshots, abstention, and quorum determine when a vote counts and whether the proposal has enough participation to continue.
Freeze voting power before counting
When Alice delegates 420,000 tokens to Bob, Bob represents 750,000. The proposal creation moment takes the snapshot; later transfers do not quietly rewrite an active vote.
Who gets to change the protocol?
Follow one proposal from intention to executable state, then inspect voting power, delay, and treasury conservation.
- 01Draft→
- 02Voting→
- 03Succeeded→
- 04Queued→
- 05Ready→
- 06Executed
Create a proposal to freeze a voting snapshot.
Start by creating one proposal. Read the action before you read the vote count.
- 02
投票窗口 3 天，法定人数 60%，时间锁 2 天。
- 01
治理模块创建：1,000,000 治理代币、1,000,000 积分金库，提案需要投票和时间锁。
Use the slider to return to an earlier step. Continuing from there replaces the later history with a new sequence.
Select the delegation scenario, delegate Alice to Bob, then create the proposal. Try to vote as Alice and observe the duplicate-power boundary. Let Bob vote and compare participation with support.
Expand: how this step works
snapshot = balances + delegation at proposal creation
participation = for + against + abstain
pass = participation >= quorum && for > against
Delegation changes representation, not token supply. Production systems also need to consider delegation chains, locked voting, transfers, and sybil resistance.