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Delegation and Governance

Sage token-governed DAOs use ERC20Votes delegation: you hold SXXX, delegate voting power, then vote on proposals. There is no stake-to-vote flow.

Governance Shapes

Your participation steps depend on the DAO’s governance profile:

  • Operator / Council DAOs: no token voting; a council Safe or operator EOA proposes/executes.
  • Token-governed DAOs: token holders propose and vote; execution is either council-only or permissionless after timelock.

Run profile detection:

sage governance diag --subdao 0xYourDAO

Delegation (Required)

With ERC20Votes, tokens have 0 voting power until delegated.

Self-delegate:

sage sxxx delegate-self

Check delegation:

sage sxxx delegation

Voting Requirements (minVotesToVote)

Token-governed DAOs enforce a low-friction vote gate:

  • You can vote iff your effective votes at the proposal snapshot are ≥ minVotesToVote (default: 1 SXXX).
  • This prevents 0-weight vote spam and makes per-voter incentive farming via wallet-splitting more costly.

Check readiness:

sage governance preflight --subdao 0xYourDAO --action vote

Proposing Requirements (proposalThreshold)

Proposing is gated separately from voting:

  • You can propose iff your effective votes at the proposal snapshot are ≥ proposalThreshold (typically much higher than 1 SXXX).

Check readiness:

sage governance preflight --subdao 0xYourDAO --action propose
sage governance threshold-status --subdao 0xYourDAO

NFT Voting Multipliers (Optional)

Some DAOs use NFT-based voting multipliers to reward contributors with increased governance influence.

Base Votes (from SXXX delegation) × Multiplier NFT = Effective Votes

Check multiplier status:

sage multiplier status --dao 0xYourDAO

Quick Reference

# Diagnose profile + gates
sage governance diag --subdao 0xDAO
sage governance preflight --subdao 0xDAO

# Activate voting power
sage sxxx delegate-self

# Vote
sage proposals inbox --dao 0xDAO
sage proposals vote <id> for --dao 0xDAO

# Queue/execute (if applicable)
sage proposals queue <id> --dao 0xDAO
sage proposals execute <id> --dao 0xDAO