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# 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,

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[Changing Your Pool's Owner](/ethereum-guides/staking-pool-handbook/changing-your-pools-owner.md)
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