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Bootstrapping the Governance System

As described in CIP-1694, the governance system needs to be bootstrapped. During the bootstrap period, the following changes will be made to the ledger described in this document.

  • Transactions containing any proposal except TriggerHardFork, ChangePParams, or Info will be rejected.

  • Transactions containing a vote other than a CC vote, a SPO vote on a TriggerHardFork action, or any vote on an Info action will be rejected.

  • Q4, P5, and Q5e are set to \(0\).

  • An SPO that does not vote is assumed to have voted abstain.

This allows for a governance mechanism similar to the old, Shelley-era governance during the bootstrap phase, where the constitutional committee is mostly in charge (Team18, ). These restrictions will be removed during a subsequent hard fork, once enough DRep stake is present in the system to properly govern and secure itself.

[Team18] IOHK Formal Methods Team. Design Specification for Delegation and Incentives in Cardano, IOHK Deliverable SL-D1. 2018.