Vol. I, No. 1 Monday, August 31, 2026 The Graph — Governance Rights Report
The daily governance brief for DAO tokenholders

Probity Institute

The Graph — Governance Rights Report

Verdict

The Graph

GRT — Governance Rights Report
Tier 4 S1 — Token-Governed Protocol Assessment as of 2026-08-31
GSA-1 fail GSA-2 near-miss GSA-3 fail GSA-4 fail GSA-5 near-miss GSA-6 fail GSA-7 fail GSA-8 fail

Why this rating: Functional network token (indexing/curation/delegation) with decorative governance — Council/Foundation execution and severe whale concentration (3.2B GRT top voter). Severe documented whale concentration (3.22B / 536M / 326M GRT top voters); Council members not directly elected by GRT holders

Where to Vote

Proposal History

ProposalTitleOutcomeClosed
QmRz29aE4TXp… GIP-0013: Reduce Curation Tax Closed September 29, 2021
QmTbDGkeaSty… [Community Poll] GIP-0009: Arbitration Charter Closed June 11, 2021
QmNTUFcx5SGt… GIP-0002: Separate destination address for Indexer indexing rewards Closed March 16, 2021
Qmd1kNg7wMUV… GIP-0003: Fix accumulated subgraph rewards being reset to zero Approved March 16, 2021

History from the Institute scanner and the 2026-08-31 recheck pulls (Snapshot Hub GraphQL / OpenSquare). Outcomes marked from recheck determinations where the proposal is named; otherwise the recorded state is shown.

Metrics

Curated metric — next quarterly update. On-chain revenue, treasury, and distribution-enforcement reads are not yet wired for this DAO's space in the Institute's state files; the quarterly re-assessment cycle will populate this block.

Structure & History

Structure: S1 — Token-Governed Protocol.

S1-S5 protocol business structure taxonomy, as-of 2026-08-27 (structure taxonomy date); scores as-of 2026-08-31 (first scored 2026-07-23)

2026-08-31 recheck verdict: UNCHANGED.

Stale-risk & dormancy notes

Assessment flags