BUILT-IN GOVERNANCE

Democratic Governance Infrastructure

ICN includes governance primitives at the protocol level. Domain-based proposals, voting coordination, and policy enforcement are core features of the daemon.

Protocol-Level Governance

Proposal System

• Domain-scoped proposals (cooperative, federation, network)
• Configurable quorum and threshold rules
• Time-bounded voting periods
• Automatic execution on approval

Voting Mechanisms

• One-member-one-vote by default
• Weighted voting options
• Delegate voting support
• Transparent vote tallying

Cooperative Contract Language (CCL)

CCL is ICN's smart contract language for encoding governance rules, economic policies, and coordination logic. Contracts execute in a deterministic environment with trust-gated access control.

# Example: Simple proposal contract
proposal "Increase member limit" {
  quorum: 0.5
  threshold: 0.66
  duration: 7 days

  on_approve {
    config.set("max_members", 100)
  }
}

Trust-Gated Participation

Governance participation is gated by ICN's web-of-participation trust graph. Members must earn trust through vouching and participation before gaining full governance rights.

• New members have observer status
• Trust score increases through participation and vouching
• Full voting rights at configurable trust threshold
• Trust decay for inactive participants

Pilot Web UI

The Pilot Web UI includes a full governance interface for cooperative communities:

• Create and view proposals
• Cast votes with comments
• Track proposal status

• View voting history
• Member trust scores
• Governance analytics

Get Involved

GitHub Discussions

Join governance discussions and propose improvements

Discord

Real-time community chat and coordination

GitHub Repository

InterCooperative-Network/icn

Visit this repository to explore the code, contribute, or track issues and development progress.