Solana debuts onchain governance letting validators vote on network changes through stake-weighted proposals. The Solana Foundation has rolled out a new onchain governance system for the network. It’s called Solana Governance Proposals, or SGP.  The mechanism lets validators submit, sponsor, and decide on core ecosystem issues. Voting power is tied directly to staked SOL.  Solana ranks among the largest Layer 1 blockchains by market value and developer activity, and this move reshapes how decisions get made across the network. How Solana’s Validator Voting Works Any validator holding at least 100,000 SOL in delegated stake can open an SGP. That’s the entry point for proposing a governance change.  From there, a proposal needs backing from 15% of total network stake before it moves to a formal vote. This threshold acts as a filter, ensuring only ideas with real community interest reach the ballot. The 15% support rule keeps the network from voting on issues nobody cares about. If a proposal fails to gather enough stake behind it, the process ends there.  No forced votes, no wasted cycles on low-interest topics.  Once that bar is cleared, the proposal enters a structured timeline built around Solana’s epoch system, where each epoch runs roughly two days. Additionally, the full cycle stretches across eleven epochs after support is confirmed. Seven epochs go toward open discussion, giving the community time to debate the proposal.  One epoch is set aside for a Node Consensus Network snapshot, which locks in the stake weights used for voting. The final three epochs are the actual voting window. Solana Launches Onchain Governance With Stake-Weighted Validator Voting The Solana Foundation has launched Solana Governance Proposals, or SGP, a new onchain governance mechanism that allows validators to submit, sponsor and decide core ecosystem governance issues through… pic.twitter.com/JxfBmf9Qda — Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) July 2, 2026 SGP Versus SIMD: A Two-Track System Solana already runs a technical proposal process called Solana Improvement Documents, or SIMDs. SGPs work differently. SIMDs answer how to build something.  SGPs answer whether the network should pursue a direction at all. The two tracks are meant to complement each other, not compete. Alpenglow, a proposed change to Solana’s consensus protocol, illustrates the gap SGPs are meant to fill. It went to a vote as a SIMD before it had enough technical detail for formal approval.  Core developers needed a directional signal first. An SGP could have captured that “yes, move forward” decision, with detailed SIMDs following once the design matured further. A passed SGP functions as a mandate, not a finished blueprint. The actual implementation work still runs through one or more SIMDs afterward.  Core developers retain control over the technical build. The SGP process only steps in when validators or stakers want a formal say in the direction first. Read also:  Solana Lands Major Bank Deal as Toss Tests Global Payments Network Approval Threshold and Vote Integrity Passing an SGP requires a supermajority. For votes must reach at least two-thirds of combined For and Against stake. Abstain votes don’t count toward that denominator. There’s no minimum turnout requirement either, so quorum isn’t a factor in whether a vote succeeds or fails. Every SGP is anchored to a specific document, frozen at a fixed commit on GitHub. Moreover, validators commit stake against that exact version, which keeps proposals from shifting mid-vote.  Once frozen, an SGP can’t be edited. Besides, any correction requires an entirely new proposal that formally supersedes the old one. The onchain proposal itself is created through a program called svmgov, which records support levels and final tallies directly on the blockchain.  The written document lives in a GitHub repository, while the vote itself settles onchain. Together, they form the two halves of every SGP submitted to the network. The post Solana Launches Onchain Governance for Validators appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

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