Voting

OhShii has two kinds of on-chain DAO, and you vote on both from the launcher:

• ONS (OhShii Network System) — the OhShii ecosystem DAO, where you vote with locked OHSHII. It governs the entire OhShii ecosystem — the launcher, the locker, and the OHSHII token itself (its ledger, index, and archive canisters) — directs the OhShii treasury, and can control and upgrade any external dapp that adds it as a controller (backend and frontend). Liquidity pools are a separate matter: the platform creates each LGE’s liquidity pool and transfers that pool’s position to the campaign’s own SONS DAO when the LGE completes, while ONS manages the OHSHII token’s own liquidity pools across DEXes.
• SONS — a per-campaign DAO. Every LGE gets its own DAO that governs that token’s treasury, upgrades, and pool — and, like ONS, any external dapp added as its controller. You vote with that campaign’s locked token.

ONS does not control a campaign’s DAO. While an LGE is still running, OhShii (and ONS) temporarily help manage the new campaign’s canisters; once the LGE completes, that control is handed over and the campaign DAO is fully autonomous — from then on only the campaign’s own SONS DAO can change it.

Voting is free — you never pay to vote, you only need Voting Power from a lock. (Only creating a proposal costs a fee.)

Step 1 — Get Voting Power

Your Voting Power (VP) comes from locking tokens, and which token you lock decides which DAO you can vote on:

• To vote on ONS (the OHSHII ecosystem DAO): lock OHSHII in the OhShii Locker. Those OHSHII stay locked in the Locker for the lock duration, and ONS reads your VP from there.
• To vote on a campaign’s SONS DAO: your Voting Power there comes from locks held on that campaign’s own DAO — your vesting lock from the LGE (created automatically when the launch completes) and any ICPSwap LP lock you create for that token. The campaign’s DAO computes this VP itself, from its own locks — it does not read the OhShii Locker — and it counts only toward that DAO.
• An ICPSwap LP lock also gives you Voting Power. If you pair the governance token with ICP, provide liquidity on ICPSwap, and lock that liquidity position, the lock earns VP just like a plain token lock. The VP is calculated only from the governance-token side of your locked position (using the same formula below); the paired ICP side does not add Voting Power.

In every case the tokens are held locked for the lock duration — you are not spending them, and you reclaim them when the lock ends.

How much VP a lock gives

VP is quadratic and rewards longer locks over bigger ones:

VP = min( √(tokens locked) × lock_months, 36,000 )

OHSHII tokens to lock

Lock duration (months)

— estimated Voting Power

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VP = min( √tokens × months, 36,000 ) · minimum lock 1.5 months · capped at 36,000 VP per user

Estimate only. The on-chain calculation uses the net locked amount (after the 1% OhShii platform fee), so actual VP is marginally lower. Tiers above Guest also require identity verification (and Fish/Shark/Whale require active-voter status) — not shown here.

• A lock must run at least the minimum lock duration (45 days by default) and be active to count for anything. A vesting lock you haven’t activated yet gives 0 VP until you activate it.
• VP is capped at 36,000 per person (so no single whale dominates), and the VP from all your eligible locks is summed toward that same cap.

These numbers are DAO-votable defaults

The values above — the 45-day minimum lock, the 36,000 VP cap, and the quorum/threshold numbers elsewhere on this page — are the defaults each DAO starts with. Every DAO (ONS, and each campaign’s SONS) can change its own copy of these by governance proposal, so on any given DAO the exact numbers may differ. Treat them as an example, not a fixed rule. The quadratic formula itself is fixed; only its cap value is tunable.

You can create a lock right inside the voting page — look for the “Create Lock to Get Voting Power” widget.

Step 2 — Do I need to verify my identity?

OhShii uses proof-of-personhood (one-person-one-vote) verification with two interchangeable methods — World ID or DecideID. You only need one, and verifying once counts on every OhShii DAO.

Whether verification is required to vote depends on the DAO and its current settings:

DAO	When is verification required to vote?
ONS (ecosystem)	Whenever a verification method is active. World ID and DecideID are each a governance-controlled toggle; while either is on, ONS voting requires verification.
SONS (per-campaign)	By default, yes. Every campaign DAO starts with verification required, and can vote to turn it off.

You never have to guess the current state: when you open a proposal, the launcher’s vote panel shows whether verification is required right now and gives you a “Verify” button if it is.

Verify once, vote everywhere

A single World ID or DecideID verification unlocks voting on all OhShii DAOs — you never re-verify per campaign. Because verification is commonly required, it’s worth doing up front: verify from the /verify page, or use the “Verify” button in the vote panel.

Step 3 — How to vote

1. Connect your wallet (Internet Identity, NFID, or Plug). You can browse proposals and results without connecting, but voting needs a wallet.
2. Open the proposals:
   • ONS proposals: the Governance page. The DAOs tab shows OHSHII by default; pick a completed campaign token there to vote on that SONS DAO instead.
   • SONS proposals: also on the campaign’s own page (the DAO/LGE detail page), under its governance section.
3. Make sure you have Voting Power (Step 1) and verify if prompted (Step 2).
4. Open a proposal and choose Adopt (yes) or Reject (no), then press Submit Vote. There is no “abstain” — not voting simply doesn’t count.
5. After voting you’ll see “You voted: Adopt/Reject” and can share it. You can change nothing once cast (one vote per round).

How a proposal passes

Every proposal is either Normal or Critical (Critical = anything that upgrades code, changes the guardian, or is a critical governance operation). The defaults below are set by governance and can be changed by a vote.

	Normal	Critical
Voting window	3 days	7 days
Quorum	250,000 VP and 15 voters	350,000 VP and 20 voters
To pass	more Adopt VP than Reject VP (a tie fails)	at least 65% Adopt
Can pass early?	No	Yes (≥75% with 450,000 VP & 30 voters, if the guardian approves)
Guardian can veto?	No	Yes

If a proposal doesn’t reach quorum by its deadline, it simply expires with no effect.

Guardian veto. On Critical proposals a trusted guardian can cast a veto — but it’s overridable: the community gets a second window to override it (needs ≥80% Adopt with 700,000 VP and 50 voters). It’s a safety brake, not a kill switch.

Creating a proposal

Proposing is open to holders with enough stake (creating a proposal needs 10,000 VP and a 30,000-token fee; the fee is fully refunded if the proposal is adopted, and partially refunded — minus a rejection cost — if it’s rejected). Guardians are exempt from the VP and fee requirements.

Delegating your vote

Don’t want to track every proposal? Liquid Democracy lets you follow a delegate so your Voting Power automatically votes with theirs (you can still override any single vote yourself). It works on both ONS and per-campaign SONS DAOs (the same follow/unfollow engine) — see Liquid Democracy for the full flow.

Not the same as LGE tiers

Governance voting is separate from LGE participation. Identity verification also affects your LGE purchase limit and waives the OHSHII guest fee, and “active voter” status affects sponsor rewards — but those are participation economics, not governance voting. See LGE Participation for those rules.