The Solana Foundation has introduced a new chain-based governance framework, the Solana Government Products (SGP), which allows both certifying and entrusting pledge holders to participate formally in major decision-making at the level of the agreement. Once the new mechanism is online, Solana ' s governance vote will be completed entirely along the chain, and the pledge will also, for the first time, have access to channels that directly affect the outcome of the vote on the agreement.

The certifying officer may propose and the client may cover the vote.

According to the new rules, at least 100,000 SOL-commissioned certifiers can submit SGP proposals. The vote was based on the weight of the pledge and certified by Merkle.

Unlike the way in which the previous largely certifying authority was exercised, the pledge can now directly cover the voting decisions of its certifying officer; if the certifying officer does not vote, the client may also vote on its own. Solana Foundation describes this design as “the sovereignty of the pledge”.

SGP remains the open-ended proposal mechanism, but the proposal needs to be supported by at least 15 per cent of the world ' s total pledge before proceeding to the vote. This threshold has the effect of concentrating governance votes on issues that do give rise to widespread concern and avoiding frequent disruptions to development processes.

SGP for direction, SIMD for technology realization

Solana clearly distinguished between SGP and SIMD processes.

The SGP responded, inter alia, “Whether or not to advance this matter” and was used to collect the chain attitudes of the certifying and client and to create a weighted signal on the direction of the agreement. SIMD responded “How to get it done”, with a focus on technical specifications and implementation details, which are still being reviewed and advanced by core developers.

The Foundation stated that in the future, issues related to the direction of governance should be prioritized in the SGP process, while SIMD continued to assume the role of a technical realization document. Using the Alpenglow Consensus Upgrading proposal, for example, if community support is tested through SGP, then one or more SIMDs will be responsible for the details of the landing and the governance and development of the trade unions will be clearer.

Two-thirds majority through the threshold

Each SGP consists of two parts: a publicly available markdown proposal file and a chain proposal account created through the svmgov program, which are interrelated.

If 15 per cent of the proposal is not supported by a full-web pledge, it will not enter the SGP voting phase and the matter will continue to follow the normal SIMD process. Once the threshold is reached, the proposal is put to a formal vote on the weight of the pledge.

A two-thirds majority of the pledges for participation in the vote was adopted on condition that the two-thirds majority be in favour. Abstentions was not included in the calculation of the results and there was no minimum voting requirement in the system.

  • Launch threshold: Validators need to obtain at least 100,000 SOL commissions
  • Commencement of voting threshold: 15% of the network
  • Adoption of criteria: two thirds of the amount pledged for participation in voting is in favour

Governance adjustments related to last year's inflation proposal dispute

Prior to the launch of the new mechanism, the Solana community had debated governance for months. Firelines are SIMD-0228 proposals that were not adopted last year. The proposal, which originally planned a downward revision of SOL inflation, raised external questions about governance representation, as only the certifying officers could be directly involved in the voting.

Critics believe that the certifying officer may have different interests in the proposal because inflation increases the pledge gains. It was in response to such disputes that the new framework allowed the client to cover the vote of the certifier or to vote directly when he abstained.

This change also coincides with Solana ' s readiness to discuss a new round of economic policy proposals, including a review of the SIMD-0550 of the SOL release model, as well as the proposed addition of additional base costs to the transaction and its eventual destruction of SIMD-0553. SIMD-0553 is estimated to have destroyed up to 9000 SOLs per day.

Additional information:According to Blockworks, in the second quarter of 2026, the Foundation commissioned 4.92 per cent of the total pledge of SOL, corresponding to a value of approximately $1.6 billion.