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Overview

Muan Protocol is an on-chain DAO governance and decentralized voting framework built on Radix. Organizations use it to manage members, vote on proposals, and execute decisions directly on-ledger. Its distinguishing design is that a governance vault physically holds the authority badges it controls, rather than that authority being wired into each individual contract – a pattern made possible by Radix's asset-oriented resource model. The framework is built by the studio Sentura.

How It Works

  • Voting types – binary (For/Against) and ranked-choice voting, with Sentiment or Intent modes. Voting power can be measured in fungible tokens or Liquid Stake Units (LSUs), with optional time-weighted multipliers.
  • Vote NFTs – a member deposits tokens once into a Vote NFT and can then participate in multiple proposals simultaneously, and delegate voting power while retaining token ownership. The announced V2 design replaces this deposit step with snapshot voting (see below).
  • On-ledger execution – Intent proposals can execute real on-ledger actions automatically once approved by the community.
  • Treasury – a built-in treasury supports payment streams and recurring instruction-set actions for scheduled on-chain operations.

A separate Stokenet testnet instance lets teams trial governance setups before deploying to mainnet.

V2 Rebuild and Mainnet Pause (2026)

On 2 August 2026 the team announced in the main Radix Telegram channel that the mainnet frontend was being paused until the next version of the protocol is ready, giving the reason as "basically no users" on the current version. Anyone who spent network fees creating a V1 Vote NFT is being reimbursed.

The upgrade notice on the project's site states the same position in more detail: the app is offline while the next version is prepared for mainnet, and Vote NFTs, deposits, governances and proposals remain as they are on the Radix ledger, with only the interface paused. Everyone who created a Vote NFT or a governance is reimbursed for the creation cost, and no action is required from holders in the meantime. The Stokenet testnet instance stays available.

The headline feature of the new version is snapshot voting: voting power is measured from the balance a member held at a fixed past instant, with nothing deposited, locked or moved, so tokens stay in the wallet and stay transferable. This removes the deposit step of the V1 design, in which a member deposits tokens into a Vote NFT before voting. The project states that full details follow at launch.

Component-Level Execution Engine

On 13 August 2026, Nicolai of Sentura described the framework’s execution layer in the main Radix Telegram channel. A Muan component can execute arbitrary transactions from the component level, addressing any other component, account, validator node or metadata setting; the stated exception is calls that publish new packages, which the engine cannot make. The capability rests on the same property as the governance vault described above — on Radix, the authority to make a call is a badge a component can hold, so the component itself can be the actor rather than a key held by a person.

Within Muan, this is what carries out an approved Intent proposal on-ledger. In the same message the builder said he is considering publishing the execution engine as a standalone component, and asked the channel for use cases beyond Muan’s own — which he summarised as democratizing access. No release date or repository was given.

The certificate expired and both sites went behind a browser warning (2 September 2026)

Read at 23:00 UTC on 2 September 2026, neither address this page points a reader at opens in a browser without a security warning. Both hosts are up and their content is unchanged: a request that skips certificate validation returns the same upgrade notice as before, 7,501 bytes from muanprotocol.com, and the application shell, 17,163 bytes from the Stokenet instance. A single Let's Encrypt certificate covers both names. It was issued on 4 June 2026 and expired at 08:32:40 UTC on 2 September 2026, fourteen and a half hours before this reading.

Let's Encrypt issues for ninety days and expects renewal at sixty, so a certificate that runs to its final day is one whose renewal has not completed for about a month. Nothing else about the deployment has changed and the project has announced nothing. Those two addresses are the only public surfaces Muan has, and since this morning both open an interstitial before a reader sees the page.

See also

  • Caper – on-chain DAO governance and treasury with a built-in exit right
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