On 2026-05-29, PR #1093 landed in the gonka-docs repository, reorganising the governance documentation into four focused pages. Submitted by @Dolper, the change added 628 lines and removed 240 across 10 files, replacing one dense page with separate guides for transactions, proposal creation, voting, and voting power.
What changed
The governance section now splits into four pages, each covering one stage of the on-chain decision process:
- Transactions & Governance — how a wallet interacts with the chain before any vote.
- Creating Proposals — a step-by-step flow for drafting and submitting a proposal.
- Voting on Proposals — how votes are cast and counted.
- Voting Power, Eligibility, Delegation — who can vote, how much weight a vote carries, and how to delegate it.
PR #1093 also expanded the guidance behind each step. Proposal creation and submission now follow an explicit sequence rather than a single block of prose. The Genesis Guardians section grew, the voting power calculation is written out, eligibility rules are listed, and delegation now documents the cold-key-to-warm-key path — keeping a participant's main key offline while a secondary key signs votes.
Why it matters
Gonka governance runs on the Cosmos SDK x/gov module. A proposal needs 33.4% quorum to count, a simple majority above 50% to pass, and can be blocked by a 33.4% veto. Those thresholds only have effect if participants can find and follow the rules in the first place. Splitting one long page into four task-shaped pages means a host who wants to submit a parameter change reads only the proposal-creation flow, and a token holder who only wants to vote reads only the voting page.
The delegation guidance is the most concrete win for validators. Keeping a high-value key offline while a warm key handles routine voting is standard operational hygiene; documenting the exact cold-key-to-warm-key path lowers the chance of a misconfigured key or a missed vote. The expanded voting-power section does the same for a recurring question — why two participants with similar stakes can carry different weight, which on Gonka ties back to the collateral system where 20% of weight is unconditional and the remaining 80% requires a collateral deposit.