9.3 Governance roles
Participation in the ARX governance ecosystem is inclusive and merit-based. To ensure high-quality decision-making and operational security, roles are structured into three distinct functional categories: Validators, Delegators, and a Transitional Governance Council.
Validators (The Consensus Layer)
Validators are the active backbone of the network. They operate specialized hardware, validate transactions, and produce new blocks on the ARX chain.
Direct Governance: Validators vote directly on critical proposals involving protocol upgrades, staking parameters, and treasury disbursements.
Performance Accountability: A validator's influence is a combination of their own self-bonded stake and the trust (delegation) they receive from the community. High uptime and honest behavior are rewarded, while negligence results in slashing.
Delegators (The Community Layer)
Delegators are ARX token holders who prefer not to run their own infrastructure but still want to contribute to the network’s security and governance.
Staking & Rewards: By delegating ARX to a trusted validator, delegators earn a portion of the network rewards while helping to secure the chain.
Liquid Democracy: Delegators participate in governance indirectly. By default, their voting weight is added to their chosen validator. However, most ARX governance tools allow delegators to override their validator’s vote if they disagree with a specific decision.
Governance Council (Transitional Phase)
The Governance Council is a temporary, expert-led body designed to provide stewardship during the network’s early maturity stages.
Composition: Composed of long-term ecosystem contributors, security researchers, and legal advisors.
Responsibilities: Supervising critical security upgrades, managing emergency responses (e.g., stopping a malicious exploit), and refining the DAO’s technical rules.
Sunset Clause: The council’s authority is designed to be phased out. As the decentralized community grows and reaches maturity benchmarks, the council is disbanded, transferring 100% of decision-making power to the DAO.
A Roadmap to Full Autonomy The Transitional Governance Council acts as "training wheels" for the DAO. It ensures that the protocol is not crippled by early-stage indecision or governance attacks while the network builds its permanent decentralized consensus.
Empowering Every Holder The delegation model ensures that you don't need to be a developer to have a voice. Whether you hold 100 ARX or 1,000,000, your stake contributes to the security and direction of the ecosystem.
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