Objective

Implement a governance model with validator-level quadratic voting and caucus-based representation, reusing existing tools wherever possible.

Scope of Work

1. Quadratic Voting Module

• Modify Cosmos SDK governance module: replace linear with square root power at validator level.
• Ensure integration with proposal lifecycle: deposits, voting, tally.
• Build indexer: expose quadratic weights for transparency.
• Test: Pilot launch, ensuring everything works properly

2. Caucus system

• Multisig: Leverage CosmWasm to create a multisig contract with a supervisor key which controls the caucus members
• Ensure
  • Supervisor controls the validator
  • Supervisor can add/remove caucus members
  • Caucus members can vote through using multisig

3. Governance UI/UX

• Setup Keplr dashboard Governance for Pocket
• Setup Mintscan dashboard Governance for Pocket
• Add Real time Governance feed to explorer.pokt.network
• Add support for caucus members to vote
• Add real time simulator → example https://quadratic-voting-lab.lovable.app/

4. Discussions

• Setup new Discourse
• Export conversations from previous discourse instance and move to new Discourse instance