# Decentralizing Your Pool

### Do It With Your Governance Token!

You can distribute the ownership of your Staking Pool by setting the pool owner as a Governance Token!

#### By making your Governance Token the <mark style="color:purple;">Controller</mark> of your Staking Pool, you can:

* Vote on Changing the Maintainer address.
* Vote on Node Operators.
* Vote on Senate Elections with your token.
* etc.

#### Simply,

{% content-ref url="changing-your-pools-owner" %}
[changing-your-pools-owner](https://docs.geode.fi/ethereum-guides/staking-pool-handbook/changing-your-pools-owner)
{% endcontent-ref %}