Solana Governance

A decentralized governance platform for Solana validators featuring stake-weighted voting, Merkle proof verification, and delegator sovereignty — all enforced fully on-chain.

This system is composed of two core programs: the NCN (Node Consensus Network) snapshot program that establishes verifiable stake weights, and the svmgov governance program that uses those weights for proposal voting.

How It Works


Solana Ledger
     │
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[Operators independently generate stake snapshots]
     │
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[ncn-snapshot program] — operators vote on canonical snapshot
     │ consensus reached
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[ConsensusResult on-chain] — immutable Merkle root of all stake
     │ CPI verify proof
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[svmgov program] — stake-weighted proposal voting

Snapshot — Whitelisted operators each independently read the Solana ledger and build an identical Merkle tree of all validator stake. They cast their snapshot hash as a vote on-chain.
Consensus — Once enough operators agree on the same snapshot (threshold configured in basis points), a ConsensusResult is published on-chain.
Governance — Validators create proposals. Other validators support them. Once 5% cluster support is reached, voting opens. Each validator’s vote is weighted by their active stake, proven via Merkle proof against the ConsensusResult.
Delegator override — Individual stakers can override their validator’s vote using their stake account Merkle proof, ensuring delegator sovereignty.

Two Core Components

NCN — Node Consensus Network svmgov — Governance Program & CLI

Program IDs

Program	Address
`ncn-snapshot`	`HsiPGfvF441TrU8eCLLerQDcEMtyzYszBfKxqoSuaD9R`
`svmgov`	`4HarXuo8QjE5GSGzuUxHA1cnNM9mFt2th2JQAC5DSNqU`