Stake Governed Protocol
Stake NLS to govern protocol parameters, upgrades, and treasury allocation. The Proof-of-Stake consensus model aligns security with your economic participation
- Maintain network consensus and operations
- – Validators
- Govern protocol parameters and upgrades
- 3,454 Stakers
- NLS tokens providing economic security
- – Staked
Recent Proposals
Nolus runs on its own Proof-of-Stake blockchain, and the people who stake NLS decide how it changes. Protocol parameters, software upgrades, and spending from the community pool all move through the same on-chain process: a proposal is published, the network votes, and the outcome executes automatically. No committee sits above that vote.
How staking becomes voting power
Voting power comes from staked NLS, not from NLS sitting in a wallet. When you delegate to a validator you help secure the chain, earn a share of emissions and transaction fees, and gain a vote weighted by the size of your delegation.
Validators vote with the full stake delegated to them, which keeps participation high when delegators are not paying attention. You are never locked into that choice: voting yourself overrides your validator's vote for your share of the stake. Unstaking is subject to a 21-day unbonding period, during which the tokens neither earn rewards nor can be transferred.
How a proposal becomes protocol
Submitting a proposal is permissionless. There is no allowlist and no team approval step.
A new proposal first enters a deposit period. It needs a minimum deposit in NLS before it can reach a vote, and anyone can contribute toward that deposit. If the minimum is not reached inside the deposit window, the proposal expires.
It then enters the voting period. Stakers vote Yes, No, Abstain, or No With Veto.
A passed proposal executes on-chain by itself. A vetoed proposal fails and its deposit is burned rather than returned.
Why it matters
These are not symbolic votes. The parameters that shape how a Nolus position behaves are the ones on the ballot: liquidation thresholds, the size of the validator set, the unbonding period, slashing penalties, and the transaction tax that funds the lender incentive pool.
The voting rules are governable too. Quorum, threshold, and the length of the voting period are themselves on-chain parameters, so the community can change how it decides, not only what it decides.
None of this requires trusting this page. Every proposal, tally, and parameter lives on the Nolus chain and can be queried directly from a public node.
At the close of voting, three conditions must all hold for the proposal to pass. Quorum: at least 33.4% of staked NLS must have voted. Threshold: more than 50% of decisive votes must be Yes. Veto: a proposal fails if more than 33.4% of all votes cast are No With Veto, and abstentions count in that base. Abstain votes therefore count toward quorum and make a veto harder to reach, while staying out of the Yes threshold. Abstaining registers turnout without backing a side.