# Quadratic Weighted Senate (DRAFT) #### Senates are elected every year, they secure the underlying code. Senate elections are one of the most important events that will happen in the Geode's future. Currently, every Planet has 1 vote in these elections and Comets doesn't have any. #### This doesn't seem fair. We propose the implementation of weighted Senate Elections that uses the amount of staked tokens to give linear voting power to a Staking Pool's Maintainer. We also propose to include a specific amount for Governance Fees that will be fixed within the period of the elected Senate. #### Thus, we will be able to achieve 4 improvements: 1. Comets will now have a say in the Senate Elections 2. Planets can be made permissionless. 3. IDs can be used for market making. 4. Governance Fees can be negotiable. #### This proposal also allows Senate-less implementations to be possible in the future. "Senate" logic is still not decentralized enough. Since we can achieve Permissionless Planets, now there are only 2 functionalities that will be secured by the Senate: * Contract upgrades * Node Operator Onboarding both of these are not frequent events and can be handled directly by the Maintainer votes. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.geode.fi/key-concepts/future-of-geode/further-decentralization/quadratic-weighted-senate-draft.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.