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Votes and Community Pool in Gonka — What's Active Now

In Gonka, voting power is determined by PoC — the actual share of computing power, not token balance. Here's a live status of the Community Pool, open proposals, and a step-by-step path from idea to grant payment in GNK. Final voting is on-chain via CLI gonkad or wallet interface; tenders and third-party portals are optional community discussion tools.

How it works What's active now How to participate

Idea Journey: From GitHub Discussion to Grant Payment

The idea journey in Gonka is a sequence of optional and mandatory steps. GiP on GitHub and tenders on third-party portals are optional community stages for discussion and calibration. The final decision is always made by on-chain voting via CLI or wallet interface; none of the community stages are mandatory for the team or validators to execute.

  1. 1
    Idea
    Any participant · minutes

    Problem or opportunity identified.

  2. 2
    GiP
    GitHub · opt. · ~ week

    Discussion in Proposals category. Not binding — forms community consensus.

  3. 3
    Tender
    vote.gonka.vip · opt. · 1-3 days

    Indicative community survey with GNK weights. Not part of the protocol, not mandatory.

  4. 4
    On-chain
    CLI or wallet · 48-72h

    Deposit + Yes / No / Veto / Abstain. Weight = PoC of active nodes.

  5. 5
    Implementation
    Grant from Community Pool · after delivery

    If CP-spend is approved — funds are automatically sent to the recipient's address.

Two Voting Circuits — Operational and Strategic

Voting in Gonka is divided into two independent circuits: one handles current network operations in real-time, the other changes protocol rules for the long term. What unites them is that voting power is always equal to the participant's PoC share, not their token balance.

Operational — minutes

Disputes over inference validity, complaints against participants, correctness of work performed. Only active nodes with current epoch PoC vote. Without this circuit, the network does not operate in real-time.

Strategic — days

Software upgrades, changes to emission parameters, slashing, power limits, inference pricing, Community Pool expenditures. Voting 48-72 hours, active PoC = voting right.

GNK-weighted vs PoC-weighted

In most crypto protocols (Bittensor, Gensyn), voting power = token stake. In Gonka — actual computational share. On vote.gonka.vip, tenders use GNK-weighting (indicative signal), but the final on-chain decision is always PoC-weighted. This eliminates attacks by external investors who do not have a single GPU in the network.

Full breakdown of governance in the article: Governance in Gonka: how the network is managed

Community Pool — 30 times underutilized

The Community Pool is Gonka's treasury, funded by epoch emission deductions. It finances content marketing, gateway infrastructure, educational materials, bug bounties, audits, and any community initiatives. The target expenditure, announced by the founders at the AMA on April 22, 2026, is approximately 1 million GNK per month. Actual expenditure is less than 5% of this volume. The figures below are updated hourly from on-chain data.

Community Pool Status Now

Expenditure for 30 days
31,250
GNK
Target expenditure (AMA)
1.00M
GNK
Gap to target
968,750
GNK
Underutilization
32.0× below target

Source: Gonka REST API + gonka.gg/api/v1, updated hourly. The 1M GNK/month target is a public statement by David Liberman, AMA 2026-04-22.

Submit a proposal on vote.gonka.vip

Why this gap is an open window

In a classic crypto project scenario, the treasury is empty, and marketing and development are not funded. Gonka has the opposite situation: funds are available, but few people know how to properly formulate a proposal. If you write content about the network, support miner tools, create SDKs, translate documentation, organize local communities — the Community Pool is open. There's one condition: the proposal must pass PoC-weighted voting. That is, you first need to make a visible contribution, and then formalize it as a CP-spend. A tender on vote.gonka.vip is a preliminary shot before the final on-chain vote.

Active On-chain Proposals Now

Currently open on-chain strategic circuit votes. A full list and history can be found in the explorer gonka.gg/network/proposals. You can vote via CLI gonkad tx gov vote, via GG Wallet, or third-party interfaces like vote.gonka.vip. Any method records the vote in the same on-chain transaction — the choice of tool is up to the host.

All proposals on gonka.gg →

Tenders — a Community Tool for Idea Calibration

vote.gonka.vip is an independent community service built on top of Gonka, not part of the protocol. Tenders on it are a way to show an idea to the community and gather an indicative signal: what amount from the Community Pool would be a fair payment for its implementation. These surveys do not obligate anyone to perform — neither the team nor the validators. But they help the proposer understand if their idea has support before they submit an official CP-spend on-chain. A vote on a tender is weighted by the GNK balance, which differentiates it from the final on-chain vote (weight = PoC).

What's important to understand about vote.gonka.vip

  • This is an independent community service, not part of the Gonka protocol and not an official governance tool.
  • Tenders are indicative surveys, not on-chain transactions. They do not transfer tokens or change network rules.
  • Other community initiatives are being discussed in parallel, for example discussion #1104 from Gonka Broker Team — an application for funding a separate Governance Portal with a prototype vote-demo.gonkabroker.com.
  • A tender is not mandatory. You can submit a GiP and immediately proceed to an on-chain CP-spend without a tender.

How a tender works

  1. Proposal. The author describes the task, deadline, and expected outcome. A wallet address can be linked to the profile for a future grant.
  2. Discussion. The community comments, clarifies scope, suggests alternatives.
  3. Voting. Each vote contains a bid size in GNK. The resulting weighted-average shows how much the Community Pool is willing to pay.
  4. Implementation and Payment. If the work is completed, the tender outcome becomes the basis for an on-chain CP-spend vote.

How a tender differs from on-chain voting

A tender is an indicative survey: it does not transfer tokens or change network rules. It is a pre-discussion tool that removes risk from the final on-chain vote. By the time a CP-spend enters the strategic circuit, the community already has consensus on the amount and priority. This reduces the number of rejected proposals and accelerates the implementation of useful initiatives.

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Three Ways to Participate

In Gonka, there are three doors to governance, and they differ in requirements and effect. Choose the path that matches your resources and planning horizon.

1. Vote in open on-chain proposals

Direct effect on network rules. Requires active PoC in the current epoch and access to the host key. Voting is done via CLI gonkad tx gov vote [proposal-id] [yes|no|no-with-veto|abstain] or via GG Wallet. Third-party UIs like vote.gonka.vip are an optional wrapper over the same on-chain mechanism.

2. Submit a tender (community signal)

If you have an initiative idea (article, tool, translation, educational video, localization), formalize it as an indicative tender on vote.gonka.vip/tenders/new. This is not an on-chain action — it's a way to present an idea and gather community feedback before submitting a formal CP-spend. It doesn't obligate anyone to execute.

3. Submit a GiP or formal on-chain proposal

High ceiling: technical protocol improvements, new models, consensus changes, grants from Community Pool. First — a GiP on GitHub for discussion (optional, but recommended). Then a formal CP-spend or software-upgrade on the network with a deposit and voting period. Submission is via CLI gonkad tx gov submit-proposal.

What's next

If you are just entering the ecosystem — start by installing a wallet and getting GNK through a pool or provider. If you are already a GNK holder — open vote.gonka.vip and leave a signal in one of the open discussions today. The most ineffective action is to wait for someone else to master a million GNK per month for you.