# Governance: adaptive quorum biaising

**URL:** https://forum.duniter.org/t/governance-adaptive-quorum-biaising/10259
**Category:** R&D
**Created:** [9 January 2023 11:22 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/governance-adaptive-quorum-biaising/10259 "2023-01-09T11:22:54Z")
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### Author: ![HugoTrentesaux](https://forum.duniter.org/user_avatar/forum.duniter.org/hugotrentesaux/32/6396_2.png) [@HugoTrentesaux](https://forum.duniter.org/u/HugoTrentesaux)
#### Post date: [9 January 2023 11:22 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/governance-adaptive-quorum-biaising/10259/1 "2023-01-09T11:22:55Z")

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Substrate used to take decisions using “governance v1” which was a system with three components:

> - Technical Committee - A technocratic committee to manage upgrade timelines.
> - Council - An approval-voted, elected executive “government” to manage parameters, admin and spending proposals.
> - Referenda - A general voting system for everything else which rewarded long-term stakeholders with increased influence.

Because they do not have an identity system (apart from the council), the votes of people are done by staking tokens (similar to [Quadratic Funding](https://forum.duniter.org/t/quadratic-funding/9836)). The power of the vote is the product of the lock period by the amount of tokens loked. The interesting part I wanted to bring here is the “adaptive quorum biaising” depending on the council vote which helps adapt the validation threshold depending on the turnout.

> turnout - the total number of voting tokens (does not include conviction)

- in case of unanimity of the council ([~20 people](https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/council)), a low turnout can validate the decision with a low threshold while a high turnout needs a stronger majority to change the council vote
- in case of unclear majority of the council, it’s the opposite: at low turnout, a strong majority is needed to validate the decision while at higher turnout this threshold is decreased

This is an interesting tool to make decision making easier while still strong when a subject is polemic.

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A new system called “governance v2” has been developed and is now deployed on Kusama. I have to read about it.

sources (a bit confuse, it seems to be WIP):

- [https://github.com/w3f/polkadot-wiki/blob/master/docs/learn/learn-governance.md#adaptive-quorum-biasing](https://github.com/w3f/polkadot-wiki/blob/master/docs/learn/learn-governance.md#adaptive-quorum-biasing)
- [https://guide.kusama.network/docs/learn-gov2/](https://guide.kusama.network/docs/learn-gov2/)
- [https://guide.kusama.network/docs/learn-governance/](https://guide.kusama.network/docs/learn-governance/)