Governance is on-chain — and you can see it

The governance system contract went live this week. Not "coming soon," not "design phase" — deployed, callable, and visible on the explorer.

What shipped

Every Valdium validator can now create proposals, vote with stake-weighted VLD, propose amendments, and execute passed proposals — all on-chain. The governance contract lives at 0x0000...0003 and supports four proposal categories: general, parameter, VIP (Valdium Improvement Proposal), and library.

Library proposals are the interesting ones. When a library proposal passes, the JavaScript source code is stored on-chain and automatically injected into the VM's SES compartment. Every contract on the network can use it. The chain literally votes on what code is allowed to run.

The explorer

The block explorer now has a Governance tab. You can browse all proposals, see vote tallies with for/against bars, view amendments, and for library proposals, read the full source code. We also added an Approved Libraries page that shows every governance-approved library with expandable source code.

RPC endpoints

Three new endpoints landed alongside the explorer views:

• GET /governance/libraries — all approved libraries
• GET /governance/library/:name — single library by name
• GET /governance/locked/:address — how much VLD a voter has locked in active proposals

What's next

The website at valdium.xyz/governance has the interactive voting UI ready — connect the Valdium wallet extension, browse proposals, vote for or against, create new proposals. It's built and waiting for the Chrome extension to land in the store. Once it does, governance becomes fully self-service. — dev team