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title: "Governance WG · Settle the DAO Parameters Registry"
url: "https://radix.wiki/ideas/dao-parameters-registry"
version: "2.0.0"
updated: 2026-08-19
license: CC-BY-4.0
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# Governance WG · Settle the DAO Parameters Registry

| Status | 🟠 Proposed |
| --- | --- |
| Working Group | Governance WG |
| Category | ⚖️ Governance |
| Governance Phase | Phase 1 – active at launch |
| Champion | Daffy (Shadaffy) |
| Origin | [Round 2 – §3–§9 parameters](https://radixtalk.com/t/rfc-dao-documents-round-2-proposal-voting-and-transition-framework/2273) |
| Latest | 16 Aug 2026 – values published; ratified by GP-PRE-1 |

Every threshold the governance process depends on is centralised in one registry, so a parameter can be tuned by Governance Proposal without amending the Charter. The card asked the community to settle the opening values. [They are settled and published](https://github.com/Shadaffy/radix-dao-governance/blob/master/pending/parameters/dao-parameters-registry.md) — a single document of roughly 59,000 characters in the [operative governance repository](https://github.com/Shadaffy/radix-dao-governance), and one of the twenty-one documents [GP-PRE-1 ratifies](/ideas/dao-adopt-phase1-governance-docs). It sits in the operational-policy tier of the precedence stack, below the Operating Agreement and the Charter.

## The settled values

**Quorum (§3.2)**, measured as participation — YES + NO + ABSTAIN — against eligible voting power at the vote's snapshot: Constitutional 10%, Governance Process 7%, Treasury/Budget 7%, Executable 5%, Temperature Check 3%. Treasury and Budget proposals carry an additional absolute floor of **50 unique voting addresses**, an abstention counting toward it, because the floor measures breadth rather than direction.

**Approval (§3.3)**, measured as the YES share of decisive votes — YES + NO, excluding ABSTAIN: Constitutional ≥66%, Governance Process ≥60%, Treasury/Budget ≥50%, Executable ≥50%, Temperature Check ≥50%.

**Minimum Affirmative Support (§3.3A)** is the section with no counterpart in the Round 2 RFC this card was written from, and it closes a hole the two tests above leave open. Because ABSTAIN counts toward quorum but not toward approval, a proposal can in principle be carried over quorum largely by abstentions and then decided by a very small base of actual support. So a YES floor applies independently, as a share of eligible voting power: **3.5% Constitutional, 2% Governance Process, 1.5% Treasury/Budget, 1% Executable**. Each figure is about half the YES share a zero-abstention vote clearing quorum at its approval threshold would produce, which is the same as saying abstentions may carry at most roughly half the participation burden. All three tests must pass.

**Durations (§3.1):** ≥5 days of draft discussion, a 5–7 day Temperature Check, a 5–7 day binding vote, and a 5-business-day window in which a passed Temperature Check must be elevated or documented grounds for delay recorded with the RAC — elapse without either arms an elevation backstop. **Cooldowns (§3.4):** 7 days after a failed proposal, none for a minor fix, and one Treasury proposal per wallet per rolling 30 days.

**Eligible voting power (§8, §8A)** answers the question a quorum percentage is meaningless without: a percentage of what. Liquid XRD and LSUs converted to their XRD equivalent at the snapshot are a _constitutional floor_, entrenched by Charter §12.1 item 4 and removable by nothing. A second tier the RAC can adjust on 30 days' notice holds LSULP, fungible LP pool units on Ociswap, [CaviarNine](/ecosystem/caviarnine) and [DefiPlaza](/ecosystem/defiplaza), Ociswap precision pools and CaviarNine shape pools. Delegation is recognised by Charter §5 but the registry records it as **not yet enabled**, pending platform support — an implementation status, the document is careful to say, not a limit on the right.

**Activation parameters (§3A)** govern the founding sequence itself. Framework ratification and the Activation Vote both run at ≥66% YES on a 10% quorum with the 3.5% affirmative floor; the Permanent RAC election must open within 90 days of ratification and seat at least five KYC-verified members before the Activation Statement; and an advisory outcome during the pre-activation period needs ≥7% participation and ≥50% YES to be "recognised" at all, which is what obliges the Transition RAC to respond to it.

## Deliverables

- §3.1 voting durations · §3.2 quorum requirements · §3.3 approval thresholds · §3.4 cooldown periods. Published.
- §4 veto parameters · §8 identity & participation parameters · §9 execution parameters. Published, alongside sections the RFC did not anticipate: §3A activation, §6A treasury signers, §6B elections, §6C dispute resolution, §9A continuity.
- Classify each parameter as minor (patch) vs major (structural) for future amendments — §11 defers this to the Governance Maintenance & Upgrade Framework §4–6 rather than settling it in the registry.
- Publish the registry as machine-readable config the governance app can read. It remains prose in Markdown; nothing consumes it programmatically.

## Dependencies & cross-references

- Ratified as part of [GP-PRE-1](/ideas/dao-adopt-phase1-governance-docs); values thereafter changed by Governance Proposal.
- Feeds [the Proposal & Voting Framework](/ideas/dao-proposal-voting-framework), which defines how the measurements above are taken.
- Sets the Working Group figures used by [the Working Group Framework](/ideas/dao-working-group-framework) and the treasury figures used by [the treasury signers](/ideas/dao-treasury-multisig-signers).
- Its §8A source list is what [a recomputed quorum](/contents/tech/core-concepts/radix-governance) must be measured against; counting liquid XRD alone reads far short.

## Sources

- [DAO Parameters Registry (operative repo, pending/parameters/)](https://github.com/Shadaffy/radix-dao-governance/blob/master/pending/parameters/dao-parameters-registry.md)
- [pending/README.md – the ratified set and document precedence](https://github.com/Shadaffy/radix-dao-governance/blob/master/pending/README.md)
- [RFC Round 2 – the parameter sections as originally scoped](https://radixtalk.com/t/rfc-dao-documents-round-2-proposal-voting-and-transition-framework/2273)