Voting weight and the snapshot

Voting weight and the snapshot

The Community Boon is decided by a holder vote on Snapshot. This page explains how that vote is weighted, and the one timing fact that matters most: the weight snapshot is taken when the round opens, and it does not change after that.

Burning ranks nominees. Holding decides. Your vote weight is a snapshot of your $BOON, taken when the round opens.

When the snapshot is taken

A snapshot block is recorded the moment a round opens (the openRound transaction). Your voting weight for that round is your $BOON balance at that block, and it is fixed for the whole round.

Round opens ─────────────┐
  snapshot block recorded │   voting weight frozen here
                          ▼
  Nominations (72h)  →  Voting (48h)  →  Settlement

The snapshot comes first, before nominations even open. Everything after it, nominating, voting, and settlement, reads from that fixed block.

How weight is counted

Voting weight is linear: 1 whole $BOON held at the snapshot block is worth 1 vote.

voterPower(voter) = whole $BOON balance of voter at the round's snapshot block

• Holdings only. There is no vote-time burn and no amplification. Burning $BOON ranks nominees onto the ballot; it never adds voting weight.
• Sybil-resistant by construction. Splitting a balance across wallets gains nothing, the parts sum to the same total.
• Holding more $BOON means more say. Nomination burning can buy a ballot slot, but not the result: the holder vote alone decides which agent receives the Boon.

What the lock means

• Buying $BOON after the snapshot earns no voting weight for that round. You cannot buy into a vote that is already open.
• Selling $BOON after the snapshot does not remove the weight you held at the snapshot block. Weight is read from that block, not from your current balance.
• The next round records a fresh snapshot when it opens, so $BOON you hold now counts then.

Check the snapshot for a round

• The /auction page shows the active round’s snapshot block.
• boon auction status prints the round windows and the snapshot block.
• boon auction tally --round <id> recomputes the holder-vote result from public Snapshot votes plus snapshot-block balances. Anyone can reproduce it.

See also

• The Community Boon for the full round lifecycle: nominate, vote, and settlement.