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Each day's entry reports recorded governance activity: proposals opened and closed, vote outcomes, and treasury moves. Entries are plain-text markdown, generated daily, and archived below. Facts only: no ratings commentary, no implied scores, no speculation about motive.

Entries

• October 29, 2026
  Balancer's shutdown begins executing tomorrow; three Parallel votes are the only live board
  BIP-936 closed 27 October with 6,306,478.97 BAL for and 0.005 against a 5,000,000 quorum. V2 fee defaults go to zero on 30 October, the first redemption window opens 31 May 2027 and governance ends 1 June 2027; Parallel's three proposals close 2 and 4 November.
• October 28, 2026
  Balancer's dissolution executed on four ballots; ENS selects its auditor on 0.039% of supply
  BIP-936 closed 27 October with 6,306,479 BAL against a 5,000,000 quorum, 6,306,469 of it from four ballots and no vote against. ENS proposal 7.3 drew 20 ballots and 39,403 ENS, of which one address holds 85.18%; Parallel's three votes close 2–4 November.
• October 26, 2026
  ENS funding vote closes 26 October; Balancer wind-down specification remains open
  ENS proposal [7.2] has 39 ballots representing 485,621.47 ENS, with no voting power against, ahead of its 21:00 UTC close. Balancer BIP-936 closes 27 October at 18:00 UTC with a reported score of 9.0606 BAL against a 5,000,000 BAL quorum.
• October 25, 2026
  Balancer's wind-down specification carries 0.5634 BAL against a 5,000,000 BAL quorum; ENS 7.2 closes 26 October.
  BIP-936 disables Balancer's v2 and v3 pool factories, zeroes v2 and v3 fees, revokes the authorizer and ends DAO governance on 1 June 2027; 23 wallets cast 0.5634 BAL in a 61-minute window on 24 October. ENS 7.2 closes 26 October at 293,530.63 ENS with nothing against it.
• October 24, 2026
  Balancer's wind-down specification opens with zero ballots; ENS 7.2 is the only other live vote.
  Balancer's BIP-936 wind-down specification closes 27 October with no ballots cast, after 17.2M BAL approved the wind-down in September. ENS 7.2, closing 26 October, is the only other open vote, and its author holds the third-largest ballot.
• October 23, 2026
  Arbitrum: all four constitutional votes passed; Lido holders rejected a buyback restructure.
  Four Arbitrum constitutional AIPs closed on 22 October, all passing on 210.7M ARB of turnout that twenty wallets carried 92.66% of. Lido's NEST/stETH buyback parameter restructure failed 29,354,889 LDO to 1,255, the largest rejection in the window.
• October 22, 2026
  Four Arbitrum votes close today; one submitter holds the largest ballot in each.
  Six votes are live across 32 monitored feeds. Arbitrum's four votes close at 20:00 UTC with turnout between 167,980,565 and 176,982,058 ARB.
• October 21, 2026
  The same 20 wallets lead all four active Arbitrum votes.
  Five proposals are active across 32 monitored DAOs. The four Arbitrum ballots share the same top 20 wallets, while Starknet holds the fifth vote.
• October 20, 2026
  Four Arbitrum motions and one Starknet poll closed; eight wallets and 41 wallets held the weight.
  Each Arbitrum motion carries 47.09M–47.10M ARB, 0.471% of supply, and eight wallets hold 91.47% of the weight; the Starknet post-quantum poll passed 99.96% with 41 wallets holding 92.35%. Balancer's BIP-928 winddown passed and BIP-929's request for a treasury grant for the fork failed.
• October 19, 2026
  Arbitrum's four motions are 95% eight wallets.
  Five proposals are open across 32 DAOs, four of them Arbitrum's, all passing at 99.3% or better on 0.376% of supply. Three wallets supplied 98% of the weight that arrived in the last day.
• October 18, 2026
  Four Arbitrum motions hold at 24.0M ARB cast each; eight wallets are 99.26% of the vote.
  Each motion carries 24.0M ARB, 0.24% of supply, while 447 wallets hold 28,312 ARB between them. The address that authored all four holds 32.39M ARB delegated and has voted on none of them.
• October 17, 2026
  Arbitrum opens four motions in one window; three addresses hold 88% of each.
  All four Arbitrum proposals opened 2026-10-15 and close 2026-10-22, each carrying 80 ballots and 22.4M ARB with 88.4% in three addresses. Starknet's post-quantum L1 question drew 1,417 ballots and 317.7M STRK; Gitcoin's quorum cut closed 16 Oct with one wallet at 99.1% of the for side.
• October 16, 2026
  No new proposals opened; Balancer's dissolution closed
  Both scanners returned zero newly-opened proposals for the 24 hours to 2026-10-14 01:26 UTC, leaving Gitcoin's 2.5M→1.5M GTC quorum reduction as the only live ballot. Balancer's BIP-932 fork motion closed 2026-10-13 at 5.46M veBAL for and zero against on nine ballots, with BIP-933 closing unanimous the same hour.
• October 14, 2026
  Balancer's dissolution is complete, and the fork lost twice.
  BIP-932 (fork re-filed without the grant) closed 2026-10-13 18:00 UTC at 5.46M veBAL for / zero against on nine ballots, with two wallets holding 76% of the tally; BIP-933 closed unanimous at 5.18M the same hour. Gitcoin's 2.5M→1.5M GTC quorum reduction runs to 2026-10-16, one wallet at 99.1% of the for side. Decentraland rejected its names freeze and migration plan and passed the committee-multisig treasury return.
• October 13, 2026
  Balancer BIP-932/933 wind-down votes close today 18:00 UTC; Gitcoin quorum-cut vote live to Oct 16
  BIP-932 (fork re-filed without grant) stands 4.64M veBAL for / 0 against; BIP-933 (claim veBAL grant USDC fees) is unanimous at 5.18M — two wallets cast 88% of both tallies. Gitcoin's 2.5M→1.5M GTC quorum reduction sits at 2.698M for / 31 against, with one wallet carrying 99.99% of the for side.
• October 12, 2026
  Balancer's dissolution reaches its final vote tomorrow, cast by one wallet.
  Nothing opened for a second straight day, and nothing has closed since Oct 6. The only live ballots are carried-over cleanups, and two of the three expire tomorrow, decided by a single address apiece.**
• October 11, 2026
  Nothing opened; the live ballots are thinning.
  No new proposals opened in 24h. The three live ballots are carried-over and procedural, and they are being decided by a shrinking handful of wallets.**
• October 10, 2026
  Balancer re-files its rejected fork without the grant; Gitcoin votes to cut its own quorum
  BIP-932/933 live through 13 Oct after BIP-928 dissolve passed 29 Sep. Gitcoin quorum-reduction proposal sits at 2.70M GTC with one wallet holding essentially the full tally. SafeDAO SEP 56 and Decentraland's accountability bundle closed earlier this week.
• October 7, 2026
  Governance digest — 2026-10-07.
  Nothing is live anywhere. All 32 DAOs report zero active and zero pending proposals, the first fully empty tape this cycle. The day's signal is entirely in what just closed: Balancer rejected its own rescue fork while a
• October 6, 2026
  SafeDAO SEP 56: two wallets hold 75% of final tally
  SEP 56 (Safenet Aegis funding) closes 08:20 UTC with 29 ballots, zero No votes — 0xdE4a…6846 and 0x7CC8…6602 alone hold 75% of the live tally. Balancer's BIP-930/931 close 18:00 UTC under one veBAL wrapper; Decentraland's four-proposal accountability sweep, all from a single address, concluded 10-03.
• October 5, 2026
  SEP 56 closes tomorrow with 83% of voting power in three wallets; single veBAL whale owns Balancer's final wind-down votes
  SafeDAO's SEP 56 (Fund Safenet Aegis) closes 2026-10-06 with 7.11M SAFE voted, zero opposition, and the top three wallets at 83% of the live tally. Balancer's BIP-930/931 each drew one address — 2.52M BAL, 99.998% of both tallies. Decentraland's multisig-return vote closed Oct 3, authored by a single address.
• October 4, 2026
  Decentraland multisig-return vote closes; SEP 56 is the only live vote with real power
  Decentraland's "Return the money in DAO Committee Multisigs to the DAO Treasury" closed this morning. SAFE's SEP 56 (Fund Safenet Aegis) remains live, closing 2026-10-06 08:20 UTC, with the top 3 of 24 voters holding ~56% of live voting power.
• October 3, 2026
  Decentraland multisig-return vote picks up opposition ahead of today's close
  The committee-multisig return vote closes 3 October 12:01 UTC, now Yes 1.62M / No 396.6K MANA (13 ballots) after standing unanimous-Yes yesterday. SafeDAO's SEP 56 holds at 5.66M SAFE, all Accept. Balancer opened two new proposals, BIP-930 and BIP-931, closing 6 October. Figures verified against the live Snapshot Hub GraphQL.
• October 2, 2026
  Decentraland names freeze and migration votes both close with No
  Both Decentraland names-registry questions closed 1 October rejected (No 2.44M MANA on each). The committee-multisig return vote runs to 3 October, unanimous on Yes at 719K MANA. SafeDAO's SEP 56 has grown to 5.63M SAFE, all Accept, closing 6 October. Figures verified against the live Snapshot Hub GraphQL.
• October 1, 2026
  Decentraland X-account vote closes with No winning; names-registry votes trail on No
  The Decentraland X-account proposal closed 1 October with No at 2.29M vs 91K Yes. The names freeze and migration votes close 1 October and both trail on No; the multisig-return vote runs to 3 October and leads on Yes. SafeDAO's SEP 56 runs to 6 October with all counted VP on Accept. All figures verified against the live Snapshot Hub GraphQL.
• September 30, 2026
  Balancer winddown carried, fork vote rejected; four Decentraland ballots live
  BIP-928 (orderly winddown and treasury distribution) closed with the "Yes, tetuBAL at 50%" variant leading on 12.18M BAL; BIP-929 (fork and reincarnate) was rejected 5.21M Yes vs 12.11M No. Decentraland has four live ballots on its names registry and DAO Committee multisig balances closing 1–3 October; SafeDAO's SEP 56 runs to 6 October.
• September 29, 2026
  Lido buyback restructuring rejected 23,000:1; Balancer winddown-fork pair closes today
  Lido's expense and NEST/stETH buyback proposal failed with a final tally of 1,255 LDO For vs 29.35M Against. Balancer's BIP-928 (orderly winddown) and BIP-929 (fork and reincarnate) ballots close 18:00 UTC — winddown "Yes" variants lead on one, "No" leads on the fork vote. Decentraland's names-contract dispute drives three live ballots.
• September 28, 2026
  Balancer winddown-and-fork pair goes live; Lido buyback closes today at 23,000:1 Against
  Balancer's competing BIP-928 (orderly winddown) and BIP-929 (fork and reincarnate) ballots each draw ~17% of supply with a day left. Lido's expense/buyback restructuring closes 13:39 UTC at 28.85M Against vs 1,254 For. SafeDAO's SEP 56 Safenet funding vote is open for 12 days.
• September 24, 2026
  Uniswap fee expansion passes unopposed; Lido buyback rejected 23,000:1
  Uniswap's fee expansion and vault-rotation votes closed with zero opposition (a three-wallet bloc carried 79-87% of each tally). Lido's expense/buyback restructuring faces 28.85M Against vs 1,254 For at today's close. SafeDAO opens SEP 56 to fund Safenet Aegis.
• September 23, 2026
  Uniswap fee-and-vault votes close today on a $50M whale ballot; Lido buyback restructuring meets 23,000:1 opposition
  Uniswap's protocol-fee expansion and vault sentinel-rotation votes close ~14:41 UTC at 100% For after one wallet cast 5M UNI on both. Lido's NEST/stETH buyback restructuring stands at 23,000:1 Against. The week's settled business: Arbitrum Watchdog bans, 1inch key rotation and Gitcoin's governor upgrade all passed.
• September 16, 2026
  Delegates show up for keys, not for distribution mechanics.
  1inch delegates swarm the Security Council and multisig rotation vote (1IP-106, 28.1M VP) while Morpho's incentive allocation sits at 54 MORPHO cast. Arbitrum's three Watchdog ban votes enter their final 44 hours on one 3-wallet bloc, Lido's BORG supervisor election rides a 25-wallet electorate, and Gitcoin's governor upgrade closes on a 99% self-vote.
• September 15, 2026
  1inch seats a Security Council; Arbitrum runs its first live ban votes.
  1inch creates a Security Council and rotates its treasury multisig signers (1IP-106, 22.4M VP, 4d left). Arbitrum votes three Watchdog bans decided by one 3-wallet bloc. Lido puts its BORG supervisor up for vote, Parallel closes two treasury pivots on 5-6 wallets each, and Gitcoin's governor upgrade carries 2.72M GTC from a single address.
• September 14, 2026
  Arbitrum runs three Watchdog Program bans on 0.33% turnout.
  Three Arbitrum Watchdog ban votes (Good Entry, Limitless, APX Finance) run through Sep 17 on 0.33% turnout, with one delegate bloc voting identically on all three. Parallel's PIP-70 closes today, Gitcoin's governor upgrade is a one-wallet vote, and Lido picks a supervisor for its BORG legal shell.
• September 13, 2026
  Parallel treasury pivot into AI compute (PIP-70).
  Of five live votes, three are decided by a single dominant wallet: Parallel votes on PIP-70 (treasury pivot into AI compute) with five voters holding 8.1% of supply, and the Gitcoin governor upgrade carries 2.7M of 2.72M GTC from one address. Arbitrum runs three enforcement bans on 0.19% turnout.
• September 12, 2026
  Parallel PIP-70 AI compute pivot nears close; Gitcoin governor upgrade passing on a single address; Stargate acquisition vote closed.
  Parallel's PIP-70, shifting incentives from DeFi distribution to owned AI compute, runs through Sep 14 with 80.5M PRL cast (8.1% of supply) from five voters, one address holding 38.5M PRL. Gitcoin's governor-upgrade proposal shows 2.7M GTC cast, 99.9% from the proposal author's address. Three Arbitrum proposals would ban Good Entry, Limitless, and APX Finance on Watchdog Program findings. LayerZero's Stargate acquisition closed with 7.6M STG voted across 15,110 addresses. Centrifuge's CP162 passed unopposed, placing protocol revenue flows under CNF management.
• September 11, 2026
  Parallel PIP-70 AI compute vote live; Gitcoin governor upgrade passing on a single address; three Arbitrum ecosystem-ban proposals open.
  Parallel's PIP-70 proposes treasury-funded AI compute infrastructure; voting runs through Sep 14 with 80.5M PRL cast (8.1% of supply) from five wallets, ~77% from two addresses. Gitcoin's governor-upgrade proposal shows 2.7M GTC cast, 99.9% of it from the proposal author's address. Three Arbitrum proposals would ban Good Entry, Limitless, and APX Finance on Watchdog Program findings; combined turnout so far is 125 ARB. Aavegotchi closed its IP transfer to the AavegotchiDAO Foundation on dual tracks and adopted tiered quorum. Centrifuge's CP162 passed unopposed, placing protocol revenue flows under CNF management.
• September 10, 2026
  This week's major governance votes passed on single-digit turnout.
  Sushi's tokenomics restructure closed with five voters carrying 5.2M VP. Parallel's PIP-70, a treasury shift into owned AI compute, is live through Sep 14 with four voters (78.5M PRL, 7.8% of supply). Gitcoin's governor-upgrade proposal is passing on 14 votes, ~97% from the author's own address. Arbitrum ratified its standing security program on 190M VP.
• September 9, 2026
  Stargate acquisition vote closed at the cycle's highest turnout; Parallel PIP-70 heads to AI compute; Aavegotchi IP moved to its Foundation.
  LayerZero's Stargate acquisition passed with the cycle's highest Stargate turnout (15.1K voters / 7.6M STG). Ethena's fee-switch vote saw thin participation (88 voters / 17.8M ENA). Aavegotchi transferred IP to its Foundation alongside a new quorum framework. Arbitrum dissolved its AGV venture vehicle. Parallel's PIP-70 treasury pivot has 5 days left.
• September 8, 2026
  Parallel PIP-70 AI compute vote live; Sushi restructure passes on 5 votes; Ethena fee switch fails.
  Parallel's PIP-70 would redirect treasury from DeFi incentives into owned AI compute (closes Sep 14, 3 yes voters). Sushi's tokenomics restructure ratified with 5 voters / 5.2M SUSHI; Aavegotchi moved game IP to its Foundation; Ethena's fee-switch proposal closed against.
• September 7, 2026
  Parallel PIP-70 treasury-conversion vote live; Sushi and Ethena votes close.
  Parallel's PIP-70 converts incentive budget into owned AI compute; the vote runs through Sep 14 on light turnout. Sushi's tokenomics restructure closed Sep 3 (5 voters), and Ethena's advisory fee-switch signal closed Sep 2 (88 wallets).
• September 6, 2026
  Parallel: buyback done, sequel live.
  Parallel's PGP-45 buy-and-burn closed Sep 5 (6 voters, 78.7M PRL). Follow-up PIP-70, converting incentive budget into owned compute, is now live and closes Sep 14.
• September 5, 2026
  Parallel buyback is the market's only live vote as four DAOs wind down.
  Parallel PGP-45 puts 100M PRL into an OTC buy & burn. Wind-down votes close at Arbitrum, Fei, Sandbox and ApeCoin, while Aavegotchi moves its IP to a holder-governed foundation.
• September 4, 2026
  Ethena fee switch passed, and four DAOs converted revenue into holder claims.
  Ethena's fee switch passed with thin turnout. Four separate DAOs voted this week to convert discretionary revenue into holder claims.
• September 3, 2026
  Sushi rewrote its tokenomics with one voter.
  Sushi restructured its tokenomics via a vote where one address held all voting power cast. Ethena's fee-switch passed as a Snapshot signal, while Maple and Parallel hard-coded their buyback flows in contract.
• September 2, 2026
  Three DAOs turn tokens into revenue claims this week; small electorates decide
  Ethena flips the fee switch. Sushi restructures its tokenomics on 5 wallets. Parallel OTC-buys back 10% of PRL supply. Balancer council churn. Arbitrum funds a standing security program.
• August 31, 2026
  The Graph closes its largest votes of the cycle; Ethena fee switch on ballot
  GIP-0002 and GIP-0003 close at $59.4M and $55.2M in exercised voting power. Ethena's ENA fee switch has one day left. Parallel's OTC buyback of 100M PRL is on the ballot.