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SORA Governance ​

SORA governance is still in development. The current version uses Polkadot v1 Governance.

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To vote in SORA governance proposals, follow the SORA Governance Tutorial.

The SORA Parliament is the governance system for the SORA network, its main task is to allocate newly minted XOR to productive projects. By combining decentralized governance and capital allocation, the SORA Parliament can create a digital government that can work to make our world, and other worlds better, without intruding on individual liberties.

The SORA Parliament utilizes Supranational Global Governance. This method has clear separation between propositioning, decision making, and rule making. There is no president or prime minister in this system, rather the rules of the system itself are the leader and all participants collaborate together as equal peers, making and reviewing proposals. It will have multiple bodies with a clear separation of powers and where the members (Citizens) are chosen randomly. It is built around these three main concepts, the same that grounded democracy in Athens:

  • Isonomia: the principle that everyone who is a citizen has political equality
  • Isegoria: the right of all citizens to speak and contribute
  • Sortition: randomly choosing groups of citizens to make decisions

Check out this Medium article to find more about the Parliament and the governance bodies.

Creating a Motion in Governance ​

As mentioned above, the Polkadot v1 Governance is used and the current SORA Council uses the Polkadot.JS interface. This section will cover what the different governance features are and how to create a motion in SORA v2.

SORA Council ​

The SORA council can be found in the Council section of the Governace drop down menu in Polkadot.js. The main council interface will have the names of current members as well as runner-up candidates.

SORA Council Motions ​

Governance proposals in SORA begin as council motions. There are two ways to make a motion, by proposing the motion directly or proposing an external, by using a preimage hash that has been created already. This tutorial will show you how to make a preimage to increase network fees and mint tokens. Then, it will cover submitting the preimage for council vote.

Propose Motion ​

This button allows you to create any governance motion from all the available options.

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Only an account within the Council members can create a Council motion. Users can create motions, but it will take 45 days to enact.

Increase Network Fees ​

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The network fee multiplier depends on the current price of XOR. Fees must be increased to match the set amount of ¢20 per transaction.

To increase SORA network fees;

  • Find out what the current network fee is. To do that navigate to the Developer tab, then Chain State drop down. For the selected state query pick xorFeeand make sure the multiplier is set to multiplier():u128. Click on the + sign to query.

  • Now that we know the current fee multiplier is 67,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 it is time to make the proposal to double the fee.

  • Navigate to the Governance tab, the Council, then Motions and click on propose motion, then in the proposal section select xorFeeand from the option choose updateMultiplier(new Multiplier)this will add the option to input a fee multiplier amount in numbers. In this case we have added 134400000000000000000000000as it is double the current fee.

After you click propose, and confirm the transaction, it will generate a preimage. You need this to create your motion.

Mint Tokens ​

In this case, the motion to be proposed is to mint an amount of tokens to a given address. To do that;

  • Click on propose motion, then in the proposal section select assets and from the option section choose updateBalancethis will add the option to add an address from your address book or you can input the address manually.

  • Then add the currency ID (you can find this in Polkaswap within the Explore Tokens section.

  • Finally, add the amount in 10^18 precision of tokens to be sent (the number of tokens followed by 18 zeroes).

After you click propose, and confirm the transaction, it will generate a preimage. You need this to create your motion.

Preimages ​

These are proposal drafts that have not been requested to governance. After following the above steps, you will find your proposal among the list within the Preimage section of the Governance drop dowm menu in Polkadot.js

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Anyone can create a preimage from the preimage. section, but you cannot propose it in the Council.

Propose External ​

Now that you have your preimage, copy the hash and back in the Motions subsection of the Council option in the Governance dropdown in Polkadot.js select Propose External.

The pop up will ask you for the preimage hash and length. Paste the hash and the length will populate automatically. Click propose and confirm the transaction. Congratulations, you have created a Council Motion.

All that is left is for the Council to vote on it, then, if approved it will become a Democracy Referenda that the entire community can vote on. This is the first step to governance!

Learn More ​

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